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RA 9851 Section 10

Responsibility of Superiors.

Section 10

SECTION 10. Responsibility of Superiors. — In addition to other grounds of criminal responsibility for crimes defined and penalized under this Act, a superior shall be criminally responsible as a principal for such crimes committed by subordinates under his/her effective command and control, or effective authority and control as the case may be, as a result of his/her failure to properly exercise control over such subordinates, where: That superior either knew or, owing to the circumstances at the time, should have known that the subordinates were committing or about to commit such crimes; That superior failed to take all necessary and reasonable measures within his/her power to prevent or repress their commission or to submit the matter to the competent authorities for investigation and prosecution.

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

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