Republic Acts of the Philippines
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Republic Acts are laws in the Philippines, created by the Congress and signed by the president.
Names
Republic Acts have gone through several names. During the American and Commonwealth periods, they were simply referred to as acts (during the Commonwealth period, they were referred to as "Commonwealth Acts"). After independence, the name was changed into a "Republic Act", which was then again changed into "Batas Pambansa" during the Marcos era. After the overthrow of Marcos in 1986, the name reverted back to "Republic Act".
List of Republic Acts
This is a list of Republic Acts that have been mentioned in Wikipedia.
| R.A. No. | Date Passed | What it Did |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-Commonwealth | ||
| 1696 | September 6, 1907 | Known as the Flag Law, this law proscribed the Philippine flag and banned the use of the Philippine national anthem. The law was repealed in 1919. |
| 1876 | August 18, 1908 | Mountain Province was established with Amburayan, Apayao, Benguet, Bontoc, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Lepanto as sub-provinces. |
| 1952 | The province of Batanes was reestablished. | |
| 2280 | February 21, 1920 | Marinduque was reestablished as a separate province. |
| 2711 | March 10, 1917 | Established most of the modern-day provinces of the Philippines: the province of Camarines was split into Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur and the province of Bohol was created. |
| 2871 | October 22, 1919 | Repealed the Flag Law and legalized the use of the Philippine flag and national anthem. |
| 3436 | November 28, 1928 | Established the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) with the bill granting it a 50-year charter. |
| 3827 | October 28, 1931 | Declared the last Sunday of August as National Heroes' Day. |
| Commonwealth Era | ||
| 382 | December 5, 1938 | The English words to the Philippine national anthem were made official. |
| 502 | October 22, 1939 | Established Quezon City. |
| Post-Commonwealth | ||
| 14 | September 7, 1946 | Changed the name of the province of Tayabas to Quezon. |
| 85 | Charter of the Development Bank of the Philippines. | |
| 265 | Established the Central Bank of the Philippines. | |
| 305 | December 15, 1948 | Declared Naga City a chartered city. |
| 333 | July 17, 1948 | Declared Quezon City the capital of the Philippines. |
| 387 | June 18, 1949 | Petroleum Act of 1949 |
| 537 | June 16, 1950 | Extended the area of Quezon City. |
| 711 | June 6, 1952 | The province of Zamboanga is split into Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur. |
| 2141 | April 8, 1959 | Made Biliran a sub-province of Leyte. |
| 2786 | June 19, 1960 | The province of Surigao is split into Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur. |
| 4200 | June 19, 1965 | The anti-wiretapping law. |
| 4695 | June 18, 1966 | Formed the provinces of Kalinga-Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, and Mountain Province from the earlier Mountain Province |
| 4979 | Divided Agusan into Agusan del Norte and Agusan del Sur | |
| 6134 | August 30, 1970 | Converted the town of Surigao, Surigao del Norte into a city |
| 6173 | Oil Industry Commission Act | |
| 6395 | Charter of the National Power Corporation | |
| 6396 | September 17, 1971 | Made Siquijor an independent province. |
| 6430 | June 17, 1972 | Changed the name of the province of Davao del Norte to Davao. |
| Marcos Era | ||
| 54 | December 22, 1979 | Set the date of January 30, 1980 as the date for a plebiscite to ratify the 1976 amendments to the 1973 Constitution of the Philippines. |
| 122 | March 10, 1981 | Set the date of April 7, 1981 as the date for a plebiscite to ratify the 1981 amendments to the 1973 Constitution of the Philippines. |
| 883 | December 3, 1985 | Set the date of February 7, 1986 as the date for a snap election for President and Vice-President. Ferdinand Marcos and Arturo Tolentino win the election, but are overthrown by the EDSA Revolution, bringing Corazon Aquino and Salvador Laurel to power. |
| Post-Marcos Era | ||
| 6639 | November 27, 1987 | Changed the name of Manila International Airport to Ninoy Aquino International Airport. |
| 6645 | December 28, 1987 | Prescribes the manner in how to fill a vacancy in the Congress of the Philippines. |
| 6709 | February 10, 1989 | Declared November 5 as a non-working holiday for the province of Negros Occidental to commemorate Cinco de Noviembre, the day Negros became free. |
| 6734 | August 1, 1989 | Created the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), which was officially inaugurated on November 6, 1990 in Cotabato City. |
| 6735 | August 4, 1989 | Set up a system of initiative and referendum. |
| 6766 | October 23, 1989 | Provided for an Organic Act for the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). It mandates the creation of an autonomous government to be headed by a Regional Governor. It creates a Regional Assembly that will enact laws of regional application and a regional judiciary composed of a supreme court and lower courts. |
| 7156 | September 12, 1991 | Mini-Hydro Law |
| 7160 | May 11, 1992 | Made Biliran an independent province. Biliran was previously a sub-province of Leyte. |
| 7638 | December 9, 1994 | Charter of the Deparment of Energy |
| 7648 | April 5, 1993 | Electric Power Crisis Act |
| 7832 | December 8, 1994 | "Anti-electricity and Electric Transmission Lines/Materials Pilferage Act of 1994" / an act penalizing the pilferage of electricity and theft of power transmission lines/materials, rationalizing system losses by phasing out pilferage losses as a component thereof, and for other purposes |
| 7878 | February 14, 1995 | Divided Kalinga-Apayao into Kalinga and Apayao provinces. |
| 8223 | December 8, 1996 | Converted the municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila into a city. |
| 8293 | June 6, 1997 | The Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (Philippine copyright law). |
| 8438 | December 22, 1997 | Created the Cordillera Autonomous Region. A plebiscite, held on March 9, 1998 to ratify the bill, was held and invalidated the act. See Cordillera Administrative Region. |
| 8470 | January 31, 1998 | Split the province of Davao into two, creating the province of Compostela Valley. |
| 8471 | January 31, 1998 | Created the Island Garden City of Samal in Davao province by combining the municipalities of Samal, Babak, and Kaputian. |
| 8472 | January 31, 1998 | Converted the municipality of Tagum, the capital of Davao, into a city. |
| 8473 | January 31, 1998 | Created the municipality of Braulio E. Dujali, Davao out of several barangays in Panabo and Carmen. |
| 8479 | February 10, 1998 | "Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998" / an act deregulating the downstream oil industry and for other purposes |
| 8491 | February 12, 1998 | Prescribed the code of the national flag, anthem, motto, coat-of-arms and other heraldic items and devices of the Philippines. |
| 8535 | February 23, 1998 | Provided for the creation of the City of Novaliches comprising the 15 northernmost barangays of Quezon City. However, in the succeeding plebiscite on October 23, 1999, an overwhelming majority of Quezon City residents voted “no” to the bill. |
| 8749 | June 23, 1999 | "Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999" / An Act Providing for a Comprehensive Air Pollution Control Policy and for Other Purposes |
| 9015 | March 5, 2001 | Converted the municipality of Panabo, Davao into a city. |
| 9136 | June 8, 2001 | "Electric Power Industry Reforms Act of 2001" / an act ordaining reforms in the electric power industry, amending for the purpose cerain laws and for other purposes |
| 9160 | September 29, 2001 | The anti-money laundering law. Subsequent foreign pressure by the FATF and by other nations resulted in this act being amended. |
| 9189 | February 13, 2003 | "Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003" / an act providing for a system of overseas absentee voting by qualified citizens of the Philippines abroad, appropriating funds therefor, and for other purposes |
| 9225 | August 29, 2003 | "Citizenship Retention and Re-Acquisition Act of 2003" / an act making the citizenship of Philippine citizens who acquire foreign citizenship permanent, amending for the purpose Commonwealth Act no. 63, as amended, and for other purposes |
| 9262 | March 8, 2004 | Inspired by the life of Dolores Lorenzo, this act gives the protection of the law to women and children suffering from domestic abuse. |
| 9334 | December 21, 2004 | An act increasing the excise tax rates imposed on alcohol and tobacco products, amending for the purpose sections 131, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, and 288 of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, as amended. Also known as the "sin tax" law. |
| 9335 | January 25, 2005 | "Lateral Attrition Act of 2005" / an act to improve the revenue collection performance of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) through the creation of a rewards and incentives fund and of a revenue performance evaluation board and for other purposes |
| 9337 | May 24, 2005 | An act amending sections 27, 28, 34, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 119, 121, 148, 151, 236, 237 and 288 of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, as amended, and for other purposes. Also known as the "expanded value-added tax" or the "E-VAT" law. |
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