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An Act Decriminalizing Vagrancy, amending for this purpose article 202 of Act No. 3815, as amended otherwise known as the Revised Penal Code (R.A. No. 10158).

Country(ies)

Philippines

Subjects (Classification)

Criminal and penal law

Adopted on (Date of text)

2012-07-25

Scope of text

National

Type of legislation (Type of text)

Law, Act

Abstract/Citation

Article 202 has been amended by taking out all reference to vagrancy in the Code, leaving all references to prostitution which remains a criminal offence.

Amended text(s)

1930-12-08 (PHL-1930-L-57377)
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines (Act No. 3815).

Electronic source title

Legislation on-line

Author

The House of Representatives, Congress of the Philippines

URL

http://www.congress.gov.ph/download/?d=ra

File

PHL94022.pdf (PDF of Act)

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Title_of_text

An Act Decriminalizing Vagrancy, amending for this purpose article 202 of Act No. 3815, as amended otherwise known as the Revised Penal Code (R.A. No. 10158).

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First Region

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