Sixteenth Congress
Third Regular Session
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand fifteen.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 10910
An Act Increasing the Prescriptive Period for Violations of Republic Act No. 3019, Otherwise Known as the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, from Fifteen (15) Years to Twenty (20) Years, Amending Section 11 Thereof
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. Section 11 of Republic Act No. 3019, as amended, otherwise known as the "Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act", is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 11. Prescription of Offenses. - All offenses punishable under this Act shall prescribe in twenty years."
Section 2. Separability Clause. - Should any provision of this Act be declared invalid, the remaining provisions shall continue to be valid and subsisting.1âwphi1
Section 3. Repealing Clause. - All laws, executive orders, or administrative orders, rules and regulations or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby amended, repealed or modified accordingly.
Section 4. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.
Approved,
FRANKLIN M. DRILON
President of the Senate
FELICIANO BELMONTE, JR.
Speaker of the House of Representatives
OSCAR G. YABES
Secretary of the Senate
MARILYN B. BARUA-YAP
Secretary General
House of Representatives
Approved: July 21, 2016
(Sgd.) BENIGNO S. AQUINO, III
President of the Philippines
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