FURTHER AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 9, AS AMENDED BY PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1728.

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 1811
• Sections: 3

Preamble

WHEREAS, the maintenance of peace and order and the

stability of the government depends greatly on the security of the lives of our

national leaders;

WHEREAS, the use of illegal firearms, explosives and other

deadly weapons as means for the commission and/or furtherance of subversion,

rebellion, insurrection, lawless violence and widespread public disorder greatly

imperils the existence and survival of the State;

WHEREAS, in view of the recent bombings and other acts of

terrorism and lawlessness committed or being carried out by radicals and

criminal elements, resulting in death and serious injuries to innocent

civilians, damage to property, disruption of normal activities, and fear or

panic among the populate, there is an urgent necessity to amend Presidential

Decree No. 9, to provide an effective deterrent to the use of firearms and

deadly weapons in the commission of certain offenses by providing capital

punishment therefor;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the

Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby

order and decree as follows:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Presidential Decree No. 9 is hereby further

amended in order to add a new paragraph to read as follows:

"5. The mandatory penalty of death shall be imposed upon any person who uses

an unlicensed firearm or firearms used or carried inviolation of General Orders

Nos. 6 and 7, or any deadly weapon as defined in the preceding paragraphs 2 and

3, in committing terroristic activities in furtherance of subversion, rebellion

or insurrection, or sedition, or in committing an attempt on the life of the

President/Prime Minister, any member of his Cabinet, any member of the Interim

Batasang Pambansa, any officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines with at

least the rank of Brigadier General or its equivalent, a member of the Supreme

Court or of any of the Constitutional Commissions, or any immediate member of

the family of the said officials, or who uses such firearm or deadly weapon

against the person of any of the government officials enumerated herein, or any

immediate member of the family of said official during the commission of, or for

the purpose of committing subversion, rebellion or insurrection, or

sedition.

Section 2

SEC. 2. This decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of January, in the year of Our

Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-one.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the

Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA

Presidential Executive Assistant

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