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RA 2658 Section 16

RA 2658 Section 16

Section 16

SEC. 16. Paragraph (e) of Section twenty-eight of the same Act is further amended to read as follows, and a new paragraph to be known as paragraph (g) is hereby added: "(e) Whoever fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of this Act or with the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission, shall be punished by a fine of not less than live hundred pesos nor more than five thousand pesos, or imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. "(g) Any employee of the System who receives or keeps funds or property belonging, payable or deliverable to the System and who shall appropriate the same, or shall take or misappropriate or shall consent, or through abandonment or negligence, shall permit any other person to take such property or funds, wholly or partially, or shall otherwise be guilty of misappropriation of such funds or property, shall suffer the penalties provided in Article Two hundred seventeen of the Revised Penal Code."

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CitationRA 2658 Section 16 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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