REPUBLIC ACT No. 4202

An Act to Amend Article One Hundred Sixty-Three of the Revised Penal Code

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. Article One Hundred Sixty-three of the Revised Penal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Art. 163. Making and importing and uttering false coins.— Any person who makes, imports, or utters false coins, in connivance with counterfeiters or importers, shall suffer:

1. Prision mayor in its minimum and medium periods and a fine not to exceed 10,000 pesos, if the counterfeited coin be silver coin of the Philippines or coin of the Central Bank of the Philippines of ten-centavo denomination or above.

2. Prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods and a fine not to exceed 2,000 pesos if the counterfeited coins be any of the minor coinage of the Philippines or of the Central Bank of the Philippines below ten-centavo denomination.

3. Prision correccional in its minimum period and a fine not to exceed 1,000 pesos, if the counterfeited coin be currency of a foreign country."

Section 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 19, 1965.

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