AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1879

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 1884
• Sections: 5

Preamble

WHEREAS, in order to encourage any person to testify in

connection with the investigation by the Commission created under Presidential

Decree No. 1879 of the circumstances surrounding the assassination of former

Senator Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. and to grant immunity from prosecution only to

those witnesses who were not actually involved therein, there is a need to amend

Section 1

SECTION 1. Section 4 of Presidential Decree No. 1879 is

hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 2

SEC. 2. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila this 24th day of September in the year of Our

Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-three.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA

Presidential Executive

Assistant

Section 4

Section 4 of said Presidential Decree No. 1879;

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:

Section 4

SEC. 4. No person shall be excused from attending and

testifying or from producing books, records, correspondence, documents, or other

evidence in obedience to a subpoena issued by the Commission on the ground that

his testimony or the evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or

subject him to penalty or forfeiture; but his testimony or any evidence produced

by him shall not be used against him in connection with any transaction, matter

or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege

against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, except that such

individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for

perjury committed in so testifying, nor shall he be exempt from demotion or

removal from office.