Section 2
SEC. 2. After the arraignment of an accused who is charged with any of the offenses mentioned in Section 1, the trial may proceed notwithstanding the absence of the accused, provided that he has been duly notified and his failure to appear is unjustified. Judgment may be promulgated in absentia and the penalty of confiscation of his properties in the, Philippines may be immediately executed. Done in the City of Manila, this 12th day of September in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty. (SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President Republic of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR. Presidential Assistant