Republic Act 9165 contains a total of

thirty-two (32) penal provisions, namely:

 SEC. 4. Importation of Dangerous Drugs/Controlled
Precursors and Essential Chemicals.
 SEC. 5. Sale, Trading, Administration, Dispensation, Delivery,
Distribution and Transportation of Dangerous Drugs and/or
Controlled Precursors and Essential Chemicals.
 SEC. 6. Maintenance of a Den, Dive or Resort.
 SEC. 7. Employees and Visitors of a Den, Dive or Resort.
 SEC. 8. Manufacture of Dangerous Drugs and/or Controlled
Precursors and Essential Chemicals.
 Sec. 9. Illegal Chemical Diversion of Controlled Precursors
and Essential Chemicals.
 SEC. 10. Manufacture or Delivery of Equipment, Instrument,
Apparatus, and Other Paraphernalia for Dangerous Drugs.
 SEC. 11. Possession of Dangerous Drugs.
 Sec. 12. Possession of Equipment, Instrument, Apparatus and Other
Paraphernalia for Dangerous Drugs.
 Sec. 13. Possession of Dangerous Drugs During Parties, Social
Gatherings or Meetings.
 Sec. 14. Possession of Equipment, Instrument, Apparatus and Other
Paraphernalia for Dangerous Drugs During Parties, Social Gatherings or
Meetings.
 Sec. 15. Use of Dangerous Drugs.
 SEC. 16. Cultivation or Culture of Plants Classified as Dangerous
Drugs or Are Sources Thereof.
 SEC. 17. Maintenance and Keeping of Original Records of
Transactions on Dangerous Drugs and Precursors and Essential
Chemicals.
 Section 18. Unnecessary Prescription of Dangerous Drugs.
 SEC. 19. Unlawful Prescription of Dangerous Drugs.
 SEC. 20. Confiscation and Forfeiture of the Proceeds or Instruments
of the Unlawful Act, Including the Properties or Proceeds Derived from
the Illegal Trafficking of Dangerous Drugs and/or Controlled Precursors
and Essential Chemicals.
 SEC. 24. Non-Applicability of the Probation Law for Drug Traffickers
and Pushers.
 SEC. 25. Qualifying Aggravating Circumstances in the Commission of
a Crime by an Offender under the Influence of Dangerous Drugs.
 SEC. 26. Attempt or Conspiracy.
 SEC. 27. Criminal Liability of a Public Officer or Employee for
Misappropriation, Misapplication or Failure to Account for the
Confiscated, Seized or Surrendered Dangerous Drugs, Plant Sources of
Dangerous Drugs, Precursors and Essential Chemicals,
Instruments/Paraphernalia and/or Laboratory Equipment Including the
Proceeds or Properties Obtained from the Unlawful Act Committed.
 Sec. 28. Criminal Liability of Government Officials and Employees.
 Sec. 29. Criminal Liability for ‘Planting’ of Evidence.
 Sec. 30. Criminal Liability of Officers of Partnerships, Corporations,
Associations or Other Juridical Entities.
 SEC. 31. Additional Penalty if Offender is an Alien.
 SEC. 32. Liability to a Person Violating Any Regulation Issued by the
Board.
 SEC. 35. Accessory Penalties.
 SEC. 37. Issuance of False or Fraudulent Drug Test Results.
 SEC. 72. Liability of a Person Who Violates the Confidentiality of
Records.
 SEC. 73. Liability of a Parent, Guardian, or Spouse Who Refuses to
Cooperate with the Board or any Concerned Agency.
 SEC. 91. Responsibility and Liability of Law Enforcement Agencies and
other Government Officials and Employees in Testifying as Prosecution
Witnesses in Dangerous Drugs Cases.
 SEC. 92. Delay and Bungling in the Prosecution of Drug Cases.
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Section 4 Importation of dangerous drugs Life imprisonment to death plus
Importation of regardless of quantity or purity fine ranging from Five hundred
Dangerous thousand pesos (P500,000.00) to
Drugs and/or Ten million pesos
Controlled (P10,000,000.00)
Precursors
and Essential Importation of any controlled imprisonment ranging from twelve
Chemicals precursor and essential chemical (12) years and one (1) day to
twenty (20) years and a fine
ranging from One hundred
thousand pesos (P100,000.00) to
Five hundred thousand pesos
(P500,000.00)

protector/coddler of any violator twelve (12) years and one (1) day
of the provisions under this to twenty (20) years of
Section imprisonment and a fine ranging
from One hundred thousand pesos
(P100,000.00) to Five hundred
thousand pesos (P500,000.00)
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financier and those who will use maximum penalty
diplomatic passport for the
import of dangerous drugs
and/or controlled precursors
and essential chemicals
Sec. 5. Sale, Anyone who shall sell, trade, life imprisonment to death and a
Trading, administer, dispense, deliver, fine ranging from Five hundred
Administration, give away to another, distribute, thousand pesos (P500,000.00) to
Dispensation, dispatch in transit or transport Ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00)
Delivery, any dangerous drug or shall act
Distribution as a broker in any of such
and transactions regardless of
Transportation quantity and purity
of Dangerous
Drugs and/or anyone who shall sell, trade, imprisonment ranging from twelve
Controlled administer, dispense, deliver, (12) years and one (1) day to
Precursors and give away to another, distribute, twenty (20) years and a fine
Essential dispatch in transit or transport ranging from One hundred
Chemicals any controlled precursor and thousand pesos (P100,000.00) to
essential chemical, or shall act Five hundred thousand pesos
as a broker in such transactions (P500,000.00)
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Sec. 5. Sale, Trading, when transaction transpired one maximum penalty
Administration, hundred (100) meters away from
Dispensation, school
Delivery, Distribution
and Transportation of when minors or mentally maximum penalty
Dangerous Drugs incapacitated individuals are used
and/or Controlled as runners, couriers and
Precursors and
messengers, or in any other
Essential Chemicals
capacity directly connected to the
dangerous drugs and/or
controlled precursors and
essential chemicals trade

if the victim of the offense is a maximum penalty

minor or a mentally incapacitated
individual, or should a dangerous
drug and/or a controlled precursor
and essential chemical involved in
any offense
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Sec. 6. any person or group of persons life imprisonment to death and a
Maintenance of a who shall maintain a den, dive fine ranging from Five hundred
Den, Dive or or resort where any dangerous thousand pesos (P500,000.00) to
Resort drug is used or sold in any form Ten million pesos
(P10,000,000.00)

any person or group of persons
who shall maintain a den, dive,
or resort where any controlled
precursor and essential
chemical is used or sold in any
form
twelve (12) years and one (1) day
to twenty (20) years and a fine
ranging from One hundred
thousand pesos (P100,000.00) to
Five hundred thousand pesos
(P500,000.00)

Financier/ when drug is sold to Maximum penalty

a minor/ if it causes proximate
death

Protector/coddler twelve (12) years and one (1) day to

twenty (20) years of imprisonment
and a fine ranging from One
hundred thousand pesos
(P100,000.00) to Five hundred
thousand pesos (P500,000.00)
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Sec. 7. a) Any employee of a twelve (12) years and one
Employees den, dive or resort, who (1) day to twenty (20)
and Visitors is aware of the nature of years and a fine ranging
of a Den, the place as such; and from One hundred
Dive or thousand pesos
Resort (P100,000.00) to Five
hundred thousand pesos
(P500,000.00)

b) Any person who, not

being included in the
provisions of the next
preceding paragraph, is
aware of the nature of
the place as such and
shall knowingly visit the
same
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Sec. 8. manufacture of any life imprisonment to death and a fine
Manufacture of dangerous drug ranging from Five hundred thousand
Dangerous pesos (P500,000.00) to Ten million
Drugs and/or pesos (P10,000,000.00)
Controlled
Precursors and
Essential manufacture of any controlled twelve (12) years and one (1) day to
Chemicals precursor and essential twenty (20) years and fine ranging
chemical from One hundred thousand pesos
(P100,000.00) to Five hundred
thousand pesos (P500,000.00)

Financier maximum penalty

Protector/ coddler twelve (12) years and one (1) day to

twenty (20) years of imprisonment
and a fine ranging from One
hundred thousand pesos
(P100,000.00) to Five hundred
thousand pesos (P500,000.00)
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Sec. 9. Illegal any person, who, unless authorized twelve (12) years and one
Chemical by law, shall illegally divert any (1) day to twenty (20) years
Diversion of controlled precursor and essential and a fine ranging from One
Controlled chemical hundred thousand pesos
Precursors and (P100,000.00) to Five
Essential hundred thousand pesos
Chemicals (P500,000.00)
Sec. 10. any person who shall deliver, possess twelve (12) years and one
Manufacture or with intent to deliver, or manufacture (1) day to twenty (20) years
Delivery of with intent to deliver equipment, and a fine ranging from One
Equipment, instrument, apparatus and other hundred thousand pesos
Instrument, paraphernalia for dangerous drugs, (P100,000.00) to Five
Apparatus, and knowing, or under circumstances hundred thousand pesos
Other where one reasonably should know, (P500,000.00)
Paraphernalia that it will be used to plant, propagate,
for Dangerous cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture,
Drugs and/or compound, convert, produce,
Controlled process, prepare, test, analyze, pack,
Precursors and repack, store, contain or conceal any
Essential dangerous drug and/or controlled
Chemicals. precursor and essential chemical in
violation of this Act
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Sec. 10. if it will be used to inject, six (6) months and one (1) day
Manufacture or ingest, inhale or otherwise to four (4) years and a fine
Delivery of introduce into the human ranging from Ten thousand
Equipment, body a dangerous drug in pesos (P10,000.00) to Fifty
Instrument, violation of this Act thousand pesos (P50,000.00)
Apparatus, and
Other anyone who uses a minor or Maximum penalty
Paraphernalia a mentally incapacitated
for Dangerous individual to deliver such
Drugs and/or
Controlled
Precursors and
Essential
Chemicals.
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Sec. 11. Possession of:
Possession of
Dangerous 1) 10 grams or more of opium;
Drugs
2) 10 grams or more of
morphine; life imprisonment to death
and a fine ranging from Five
3) 10 grams or more of heroin; hundred thousand pesos
(P500,000.00) to Ten million
4) 10 grams or more of cocaine pesos (P10,000,000.00)
or cocaine hydrochloride;

5) 50 grams or more of
methamphetamine
hydrochloride or “shabu”;

6) 10 grams or more of
marijuana resin or marijuana
resin oil;

7) 500 grams or more of

marijuana;
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Sec. 11. 8) 10 grams or more of other
Possession of dangerous drugs such as, but not
Dangerous limited to,
Drugs methylenedioxymethamphetamine
(MDMA) or “ecstasy”,
paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA), life imprisonment to death and
trimethoxyamphetamine (TMA), a fine ranging from Five
lysergic acid diethylamine (LSD), hundred thousand pesos
gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), (P500,000.00) to Ten million
and those similarly designed or pesos (P10,000,000.00)
newly introduced drugs and their
derivatives, without having any
therapeutic value or if the quantity
possessed is far beyond
therapeutic requirements, as
determined and promulgated by the
Board in accordance to Section 93,
Article XI of this Act.
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Sec. 11. (5) grams or more but less than ten twenty (20) years and one
Possession of (10) grams of opium, morphine, (1) day to life imprisonment
Dangerous heroin, cocaine or cocaine and a fine ranging from Four
hydrochloride, marijuana resin, hundred thousand pesos
Drugs
marijuana resin oil, (P400,000.00) to Five
methamphetamine hydrochloride or hundred thousand pesos
“shabu”, or dangerous drugs such (P500,000.00)
as, but not limited to,
methylenedioxymethamphetamine
(MDMA) or “ecstasy”,
paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA),
trimethoxyamphetamine (TMA),
lysergic acid diethylamine (LSD),
gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), and
those similarly designed or newly
introduced drugs and their
derivatives, without having any
therapeutic value or if the quantity
possessed is far beyond therapeutic
requirements; or three hundred (300)
grams or more but less than five
hundred (500) grams of marijuana
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Sec. 11. less than five (5) grams of opium, twelve (12) years and one
Possession of morphine, heroin, cocaine or cocaine (1) day to twenty (20) years
Dangerous hydrochloride, marijuana resin, and a fine ranging from
Drugs marijuana resin oil, Three hundred thousand
methamphetamine hydrochloride or pesos (P300,000.00) to Four
“shabu”, or dangerous drugs such hundred thousand pesos
as, but not limited to, (P400,000.00)
methylenedioxymethamphetamine
(MDMA) or “ecstasy”,
paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA),
trimethoxyamphetamine (TMA),
lysergic acid diethylamine (LSD),
gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), and
those similarly designed or newly
introduced drugs and their
derivatives, without having any
therapeutic value or if the quantity
possessed is far beyond therapeutic
requirements; or less than three
hundred (300) grams of marijuana
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Sec. 11. Methamphetamine hydrochloride or Life imprisonment and a

Possession of “shabu” is ten (10) grams or more but fine ranging from Four
Dangerous less than fifty (50) grams hundred thousand pesos
Drugs (P400,000.00) to Five
hundred thousand pesos
(P500,000.00)

Sec. 12. possess or have under his/her control six (6) months and one (1)
Possession of any equipment, instrument, apparatus day to four (4) years and a
Equipment, and other paraphernalia fit or intended fine ranging from Ten
Instrument, for smoking, consuming, administering, thousand pesos
Apparatus and injecting, ingesting, or introducing any (P10,000.00) to Fifty
Other dangerous drug into the body: thousand pesos
Paraphernalia Provided, That in the case of medical (P50,000.00)
for Dangerous practitioners and various professionals
Drugs who are required to carry such
equipment, instrument, apparatus and
other paraphernalia in the practice of
their profession, the Board shall
prescribe the necessary implementing
guidelines thereof
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Sec. 13. possessing any dangerous drug during Maximum penalty
Possession of a party, or at a social gathering or
Dangerous meeting, or in the proximate company
Drugs During of at least two (2) persons regardless
Social of the quantity and purity of the
Gatherings or dangerous drugs and regardless of
Meetings. whether the person was dispensing,
pushing, or selling the dangerous drug
to other persons
Sec. 14. possess or have under his/her control maximum penalty
Possession of any equipment, instrument, apparatus provided for in Section 12
Equipment, and other paraphernalia fit or intended of this Act ( four years and
Instrument, for smoking, consuming, administering, P50,000.00 pesos fine)
Apparatus and injecting, ingesting, or introducing any
Other dangerous drug into the body, during
Paraphernalia parties, social gatherings or meetings,
for Dangerous or in the proximate company of at least
Drugs During two (2) persons
Parties, Social
Gatherings
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Sec. 15. Use of person apprehended or arrested, who six (6) months
Dangerous is found to be positive for use of any rehabilitation in a
Drugs dangerous drug, after a confirmatory government center
test (first offense) this Section shall not
be applicable where the person tested
is also found to have in his/her
possession such quantity of any
dangerous drug provided for under
Section 10 of this Act, in which case
the provisions stated therein shall apply

second offense six (6) years and one (1)

day to twelve (12) years
and a fine ranging from
Fifty thousand pesos
(P50,000.00) to Two
hundred thousand pesos
(P200,000.00)
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Sec. 16. any person who shall plant, cultivate or life imprisonment to death
Cultivation or culture marijuana, opium poppy or any and a fine ranging from
Culture of Plants other plant regardless of quantity, Five hundred thousand
Classified as which is or may hereafter be classified pesos (P500,000.00) to
Dangerous as a dangerous drug or as a source Ten million pesos
Drugs or Are from which any dangerous drug may (P10,000,000.00)
Sources Thereof be manufactured or derived in the
case of medical laboratories and
medical research centers which
cultivate or culture marijuana, opium
poppy and other plants, or materials of
dangerous drugs for medical
experiments and research purposes, or
for the creation of new types of
medicine, the Board shall prescribe the
necessary implementing guidelines for
the proper cultivation, culture, handling,
experimentation and disposal of such
plants and materials

financier maximum penalty

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Sec. 16. protector/ coddler twelve (12) years and one
Cultivation or (1) day to twenty (20)
Culture of Plants years of imprisonment
Classified as and a fine ranging from
Dangerous One hundred thousand
Drugs or Are pesos (P100,000.00) to
Sources Thereof Five hundred thousand
pesos (P500,000.00)
Sec. 17. any practitioner, manufacturer, one (1) year and one (1)
Maintenance and wholesaler, importer, distributor, dealer day to six (6) years and a
Keeping of or retailer who violates or fails to comply fine ranging from Ten
Original Records with the maintenance and keeping of thousand pesos
of Transactions the original records of transactions on (P10,000.00) to Fifty
on Dangerous any dangerous drug and/or controlled thousand pesos
Drugs and/or precursor and essential chemical in (P50,000.00)
Controlled accordance with Section 40 of this Act
Precursors and additional penalty shall be imposed
Essential through the revocation of the license to
Chemicals practice his/her profession, in case of a
practitioner, or of the business, in case
of a manufacturer, seller, importer,
distributor, dealer or retailer
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Sec. 18. practitioner, who shall prescribe any twelve (12) years and
Unnecessary dangerous drug to any person whose one (1) day to twenty
Prescription of physical or physiological condition (20) years and a fine
Dangerous does not require the use or in the ranging from One
Drugs dosage prescribed therein, as hundred thousand
determined by the Board in pesos (P100,000.00) to
consultation with recognized Five hundred thousand
competent experts who are pesos (P500,000.00)
authorized representatives of and the additional
professional organizations of penalty of the
practitioners, particularly those who revocation of his/her
are involved in the care of persons license to practice
with severe pain
Sec. 19. any person, who, unless authorized life imprisonment to
Unlawful by law, shall make or issue a death and a fine ranging
Prescription of prescription or any other writing from Five hundred
Dangerous purporting to be a prescription for any thousand pesos
Drugs. dangerous drug (P500,000.00) to Ten
Million pesos
(P10,000,000.00)
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Sec. 26. Any attempt or conspiracy to commit the same penalty prescribed
Attempt or following unlawful acts: for the commission of the
Conspiracy same as provided under
a) Importation of dangerous drugs this Act
and/or controlled precursors and
essential chemicals;

b) Sale, administration, dispensation,

delivery, distribution and transportation
of dangerous drugs and/or controlled
precursors and essential chemicals;

c) Maintenance of a den, dive or

resort where any dangerous drug is
used in any form;

d) Manufacture of dangerous drugs

and/or controlled precursors and
essential chemicals; and

e) Cultivation or culture of plants

which are sources of dangerous drugs.
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Sec. 27. Criminal Liability
of a Public Officer or
Employee for
Misappropriation,
Misapplication or Failure
to Account for the
Confiscated, Seized or
Surrendered Dangerous
Drugs, Plant Sources of
Dangerous Drugs,
Controlled Precursors
and Essential Chemicals,
Instruments/Paraphernali
a and/or Laboratory
Equipment Including the
Proceeds or Properties
Obtained from the
Unlawful Act Committed.
UNLAWFUL ACT PENALTIES
PROVIDED
any public officer or any public officer or
employee who employee who
misappropriates, misapplies misappropriates,
or fails to account for misapplies or fails to
confiscated, seized or account for confiscated,
surrendered dangerous seized or surrendered
drugs, plant sources of dangerous drugs, plant
dangerous drugs, controlled sources of dangerous
precursors and essential drugs, controlled
chemicals, precursors and essential
instruments/paraphernalia chemicals,
and/or laboratory equipment instruments/paraphernali
including the proceeds or a and/or laboratory
properties obtained from the equipment including the
unlawful acts as provided proceeds or properties
for in this Act obtained from the
unlawful acts as provided
for in this Act
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Sec. 28. Criminal If violators are maximum penalties of
Liability of government officials or the unlawful acts
Government employees provided for in this Act in
Officials and addition to absolute
Employees perpetual disqualification
from any public office
Sec. 29. Criminal Planting of evidence Death penalty
Liability for Regardless of quantity or
‘Planting’ of purity
Evidence
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Sec. 30. Criminal partner, president, director, Penalty provided for the
Liability of manager, trustee, estate offense
Officers of administrator, or officer who
Partnerships, knowingly authorizes, tolerates
Corporations, or consents to the use of a
Associations or vehicle, vessel, aircraft,
Other Juridical equipment or other facility, as
Entities an instrument in the importation,
sale, administration,
dispensation, delivery,
distribution, transportation or
manufacture of dangerous
drugs, or chemical diversion, if
such vehicle, vessel, aircraft,
equipment or other instrument
is owned by or under the control
or supervision of the
partnership, corporation,
association or juridical entity to
which they are affiliated
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Sec. 31. any alien who violates after service of sentence,
Additional such provisions of this be deported immediately
Penalty if Act without further proceedings,
Offender is an unless the penalty is death
Alien
Sec. 32. Liability any person found six (6) months and one (1)
to a Person violating any regulation day to four (4) years and a
Violating Any duly issued by the fine ranging from Ten
Regulation Board pursuant to this thousand pesos
Issued by the Act (P10,000.00) to Fifty
Board thousand pesos
(P50,000.00) in addition to
the administrative sanctions
imposed by the Board
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Sec. 35. person convicted disqualified to exercise
Accessory under this Act his/her civil rights such
Penalties as but not limited to, the
rights of parental
authority or guardianship,
either as to the person or
property of any ward, the
rights to dispose of such
property by any act or
any conveyance inter
vivos, and political rights
such as but not limited to,
the right to vote and be
voted for
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Sec. 37. Issuance Any person authorized, six (6) years and one (1) day
of False or licensed or accredited to twelve (12) years and a fine
Fraudulent Drug under this Act and its ranging from One hundred
Test Results implementing rules to thousand pesos (P100,000.00)
conduct drug to Five hundred thousand
examination or test, who pesos (P500,000.00)
issues false or fraudulent
drug test results
knowingly, willfully or
through gross negligence

An additional penalty
shall be imposed through
the revocation of the
license to practice his/her
profession in case of a
practitioner, and the
closure of the drug
testing center.
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SEC. 72. Liability any person who, having six (6) months and one (1)
of a Person Who official custody of or access day to six (6) years and a
Violates the to the confidential records of fine ranging from One
Confidentiality of any drug dependent under thousand pesos
Records. voluntary submission (P1,000.00) to Six
programs, or anyone who, thousand pesos
having gained possession of (P6,000.00)
said records, whether
lawfully or not, reveals their
content to any person other
than those charged

if offender is a government Maximum penalty (6yrs

official or employee and P6,000.00 pesos fine)
in addition to absolute
perpetual disqualification
from any public office
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SEC. 73. Liability of a Any parent, spouse or may be cited for contempt
Parent, Spouse or guardian who, without valid by the court
Guardian Who Refuses reason, refuses to
to Cooperate with the cooperate with the Board or
Board or any any concerned agency in
Concerned Agency the treatment and
rehabilitation of a drug
dependent
SEC. 91. Responsibility Any member of law not less than twelve (12)
and Liability of Law enforcement agencies or years and one day to
Enforcement Agencies any other government twenty years and a fine of
and other Government official and employee who, not less than Five
Officials and after due notice, fails or hundred thousand pesos
Employees in Testifying refuses intentionally or (P500,000.00), in addition
as Prosecution negligently, to appear as a to the administrative
Witnesses in witness for the prosecution liability he/she may be
Dangerous Drugs in any proceedings, meted out by his/her
Cases involving violations of this immediate superior
Act, without any valid and/or appropriate body.
reason
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SEC. 91. Responsibility immediate superior of the not less than two (2)
and Liability of Law member of the law months and one (1) day
Enforcement Agencies enforcement agency or any but not more than six (6)
and other Government other government employee years and a fine of not
Officials and mentioned in the preceding less than Ten thousand
Employees in Testifying paragraph pesos (P10,000.00) but
as Prosecution not more than Fifty
Witnesses in thousand pesos
Dangerous Drugs (P50,000.00) and in
Cases addition, perpetual
absolute disqualification
from public office if
despite due notice to
them and to the witness
concerned, the former
does not exert
reasonable effort to
present the latter to the
court
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SEC. 92. Delay and Any government officer twelve (12) years and
Bungling in the or employee tasked with one (1) day to twenty
Prosecution of Drug the prosecution of drug- (20) years without
Cases related cases under this prejudice to his/her
Act, who, through prosecution under the
patent laxity, pertinent provisions of
inexcusable neglect, the Revised Penal
unreasonable delay or Code
deliberately causes the
unsuccessful
prosecution and/or
dismissal of the said
drug cases