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" Counterfeiting
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• Counterfeiting of currency
Philippines
Republic Act No. 3815 (The Revised
Penal Code of the Philippines)
! Book Two - Title Four
! Article 166-169
! Chapter One - Section Three
" Original Text
Section Three. — Forging treasury or bank
notes, obligations and securities; importing
and uttering false or forged notes,
obligations and securities.
Art. 166. Forging treasury or bank notes on
other documents payable to bearer;
importing, and uttering such false or
forged notes and documents. — The
forging or falsiEcation of treasury or bank
notes or certiEcates or other obligations
and securities payable to bearer and the
importation and uttering in connivance
with forgers or importers of such false or
forged obligations or notes, shall be
punished as follows:
1. By reclusion temporal in its minimum
period and a Ene not to exceed P10,000
pesos, if the document which has been
falsiEed, counterfeited, or altered, is an
obligations or security of the United States
or of the Philippines Islands.
The word "obligation or security of the
United States or of the Philippine Islands"
shall be held to mean all bonds, certiEcates
of indebtedness, national bank notes,
fractional notes, certiEcates of deposit,
bills, checks, or drafts for money, drawn by
or upon authorized oOcers of the United
States or of the Philippine Islands, and
other representatives of value, of whatever
denomination, which have been or may be
issued under any act of the Congress of
the United States or of the Philippine
Legislature.
2. By prision mayor in its maximum period
and a Ene not to exceed P5,000 pesos, if
the falsiEed or altered document is a
circulating note issued by any banking
association duly authorized by law to issue
the same.
3. By prision mayor in its medium period
and a Ene not to exceed P5,000 pesos, if
the falsiEed or counterfeited document
was issued by a foreign government.
4. By prision mayor in its minimum period
and a Ene not to exceed P2,000 pesos,
when the forged or altered document is a
circulating note or bill issued by a foreign
bank duly authorized therefor.
Art. 167. Counterfeiting, importing and
uttering instruments not payable to bearer.
— Any person who shall forge, import or
utter, in connivance with the forgers or
importers, any instrument payable to order
or other document of credit not payable to
bearer, shall suffer the penalties of prision
correccional in its medium and maximum
periods and a Ene not exceeding P6,000
pesos.
Art. 168. Illegal possession and use of
false treasury or bank notes and other
instruments of credit. — Unless the act be
one of those coming under the provisions
of any of the preceding articles, any person
who shall knowingly use or have in his
possession, with intent to use any of the
false or falsiEed instruments referred to in
this section, shall suffer the penalty next
lower in degree than that prescribed in said
articles.
Art. 169. How forgery is committed. — The
forgery referred to in this section may be
committed by any of the following means:
1. By giving to a treasury or bank note or
any instrument, payable to bearer or order
mentioned therein, the appearance of a
true genuine document.
2. By erasing, substituting, counterfeiting
or altering by any means the Egures,
letters, words or signs contained therein.
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Act No. 3815
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