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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 214 - FURTHER
AMENDING ARTICLE 29 OF THE REVISED PENAL CODE, AS AMENDED
WHEREAS,
Executive Order No. 59 dated November 7, 1986, amended by Executive
Order No. 191 dated June 10, 1987, repealed Presidential Decrees Nos.
1836, 1877 and 1877-A and the rules, regulations and instructions
issued to implement the aforesaid decrees;
WHEREAS, consistent with the foregoing, the exception of any detention
by virtue of an arrest, search and seizure order (ASSO), from the rule
in the last paragraph of Article 29 of the Revised Penal Code, as
amended by Batas Pambansa Blg. 85, is deemed to have likewise been
repealed impliedly;
WHEREAS, to erase any doubt, the express repeal of such exception is
necessary;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do
hereby order:
Section 1.
“Art.
29.
1.
2.
If
the detention prisoner does not agree to abide by the same disciplinary
rules imposed upon convicted prisoners, he shall be credited in the
service of his sentence with four-fifths of the time during which he
has undergone preventive imprisonment.
Whenever an accused has
undergone preventive imprisonment for a period equal to or more than
the possible maximum imprisonment of the offense charged to which he
may be sentenced and his case is not yet terminated, he shall be
released immediately without prejudice to the continuation of the trial
thereof or the proceeding on appeal, if the same is under review. In
case the maximum penalty to which the accused may be sentenced is
destierro, he shall be released after thirty (30) days of preventive
imprisonment.”
Done in the City of Manila, this 10th day of July in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.
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