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• Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act

  Also: Republic Act No. 12022, RA 12022, Anti-Agricultural Sabotage Act (statutory short title)

  The Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act is the popular name of Republic Act No. 12022, approved September 26, 2024 and signed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.…

• Norkis Trading

  Also: Norkis Trading Co., Inc., NTC (Norkis Trading Company), Norkis Trading Company

  Norkis Trading Co., Inc. (NTC) is the Philippine company that built the Yamaha motorcycle business in the Philippines, and the flagship company of the Norkis…

• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

  Also: UNDRIP, DOTROIP, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007)

  The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a comprehensive international human-rights instrument adopted by the UN General Assembly on September…

• Tobacco Monopoly

  Also: Estanco de Tabacos, Estanco, Spanish tobacco monopoly in the Philippines

  The Tobacco Monopoly (Spanish estanco de tabaco) was the system established under Spanish rule by which the colonial government of the Philippines held exclusive control…

• Proclamation No. 216

  Also: Proclamation 216, Martial law in Mindanao, 2017 Mindanao martial law proclamation

  Proclamation No. 216 is the proclamation by which President Rodrigo Duterte, on May 23, 2017, declared a state of martial law and suspended the privilege…

• Republic Act No. 9346

  Also: RA 9346 — the standard short form, Republic Act No. 9346, An Act Prohibiting the Imposition of Death Penalty in the Philippines — the long title

  Republic Act No. 9346, titled "An Act Prohibiting the Imposition of Death Penalty in the Philippines," is the 2006 statute that abolished capital punishment in…

• Proclamation No. 9

  Also: Proclamation No. 9, s. 1986 — the issuance-series styling, The "Law Governing the Constitutional Commission of 1986" — the instrument's operative title ([LawPhil — Proclamation No. 9](https://www.lawphil.net/executive/proc/proc1986/proc_9_1986.html "Proclamation No. 9 (April 23, 1986): Law Governing the Constitutional Commission of 1986 — The LawPhil Project")), The Constitutional Commission proclamation — the descriptive reference in transition-period literature

  Proclamation No. 9 is the proclamation of April 23, 1986 by which President Corazon C. Aquino promulgated the "Law Governing the Constitutional Commission of 1986"…

• Presidential Decree No. 421

  Also: P.D. No. 421, s. 1974, The Greater Manila police integration decree, The decree creating the Metropolitan Police Force

  Presidential Decree No. 421 is the martial-law-era issuance signed by President Ferdinand E. Marcos on March 21, 1974, officially titled "Integration of the City/Municipal Police…

• Republic Act No. 9165

  Also: Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act, Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 — the Act's short title under Section 1, RA 9165 — the standard citation form

  Republic Act No. 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, is the principal statute of the Philippines on dangerous drugs — "An Act Instituting…

• Proclamation No. 3

  Also: The Freedom Constitution proclamation — the descriptive reference used in constitutional literature, Proclamation No. 3, s. 1986 — the issuance-series styling, The provisional constitution proclamation of March 25, 1986 — the date-tagged citation

  Proclamation No. 3 is the presidential proclamation of March 25, 1986 by which President Corazon C. Aquino promulgated the Provisional Constitution of the Republic of…

• Benigno S. Aquino Sr.

  Also: Benigno Aquino Sr., Benigno Aquino, Sr. — the comma styling of the reference works, Benigno Simeón Aquino y Quiambao — full baptismal name

  Benigno Simeón Aquino y Quiambao (September 3, 1894 – December 20, 1947), known as Benigno S. Aquino Sr., was a Filipino lawyer and Nacionalista politician…

• Cecilia Muñoz-Palma

  Also: Justice Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Cecilia Arreglado Muñoz-Palma — full name, Cecilia Muñoz Palma — styling of the foundation named for her

  Cecilia Arreglado Muñoz-Palma (November 22, 1913, Bauan, Batangas – January 2, 2006, Quezon City) was a Filipino jurist, the first woman appointed to the Supreme…

• Department of Information and Communications Technology

  Also: DICT, Department of Information and Communications Technology, Kagawaran ng Teknolohiya ng Impormasyon at Komunikasyon (Filipino)

  The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is the executive department of the Government of the Philippines responsible for information and communications technology (ICT)…

• Masagana Rice Industry Development Program

  Also: Masagana Rice Industry Development Program 2023–2028, MRIDP, MaSaGaNa Rice Industry Development Program — the styling used in DA statements

  The Masagana Rice Industry Development Program (MRIDP) is the Department of Agriculture's national framework for the Philippine rice industry covering 2023–2028, pursued under the administration…

• Diego Cera Organbuilders Inc.

  Also: Diego Cera Organ Builders Inc. — the styling in some press accounts, Diego Cera Organbuilders, DC Organbuilders

  Diego Cera Organbuilders, Inc. is the Philippine pipe-organ building and restoration company that maintains the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ, the 1824 National Cultural Treasure whose…

• Drones4Rice

  Also: Drones4Rice Project, Drones4Rice Program

  Drones4Rice is a Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) project that promotes drone-based services — seeding, fertilizer and pesticide application, crop establishment, nutrient management, and pest…

• International Bamboo Organ Festival

  Also: IBOF, Bamboo Organ Festival, Bamboo Organ International Music Festival

  The International Bamboo Organ Festival (IBOF) is the annual music festival held each February at St. Joseph Parish Church in Las Piñas City, Metro Manila,…

• Bamboo Organ Foundation Inc.

  Also: Bamboo Organ Foundation, Inc., BOFI, The Bamboo Organ Foundation

  The Bamboo Organ Foundation, Inc. (BOFI) is the non-stock, non-profit organization that preserves and maintains the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ, the 1824 National Cultural Treasure…

• Anti-Subversion Act of 1957

  Also: Republic Act No. 1700, RA 1700, Anti-Subversion Law

  The Anti-Subversion Act of 1957 is the short title of Republic Act No. 1700, "An Act to Outlaw the Communist Party of the Philippines and…

• Manuel Araullo

  Also: Manuel Araullo y Gonzáles, Chief Justice Araullo, Manuel G. Araullo (initialled styling)

  Manuel Araullo (Manuel Araullo y Gonzáles; January 1, 1853, Balayan, Batangas – July 26, 1924, Manila) was a Filipino jurist and the third Chief Justice…

• Countervailing Duties

  Also: Republic Act No. 8751, RA 8751, Countervailing Duty Act

  Countervailing duties are anti-subsidy import duties — levies imposed, after investigation, on products whose foreign producers receive government subsidies, in order to neutralize the price…

• Safeguard Measures Act

  Also: Republic Act No. 8800, RA 8800, Section 712 safeguard duty regime of the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act

  The Safeguard Measures Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 8800, an act protecting local industries by providing safeguard measures in response to…

• Diego Cera

  Also: Fray Diego Cera de la Virgen del Carmen (full religious name), Father Diego Cera, Fr. Diego Cera

  Diego Cera de la Virgen del Carmen (1762–1832) was a Spanish Augustinian Recollect friar, natural scientist, and organ builder — the parish priest of Las…

• Customs Modernization and Tariff Act

  Also: CMTA (statutory abbreviation from Section 100), Republic Act No. 10863, RA 10863

  The Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) is Republic Act No. 10863, "An Act Modernizing the Customs and Tariff Administration," signed by President Benigno S.…

• Question hour

  Also: Question Hour (capitalized chamber usage), Question period (the British parliamentary term the Philippine provision descends from), Interpellation of department heads

  The question hour is the constitutional practice under which the heads of executive departments may appear before the Senate or the House of Representatives of…

• Bureau of Constabulary (wartime)

  Also: BoC (Konrad Lawson's abbreviation), The Constabulary (the occupation-era shorthand, ambiguous with the American-era Philippine Constabulary), Bureau of Constabulary of the Philippine Executive Commission (its first-period designation)

  The Bureau of Constabulary was the national police force organized under Japanese sponsorship during the occupation of the Philippines in World War II — the…

• Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act of 2016

  Also: Republic Act No. 10845 (the statutory citation), RA 10845, An Act Declaring Large-Scale Agricultural Smuggling as Economic Sabotage (long title)

  The Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act of 2016 is the short title of Republic Act No. 10845, approved May 23, 2016 — "An Act Declaring Large-Scale Agricultural…

• Tariff Commission

  Also: TC (the agency's own abbreviation), Commission (the term defined in the CMTA and the trade remedy statutes to mean the Tariff Commission), Tariff Commission of the Philippines

  The Tariff Commission (TC) is the Philippine government agency responsible for tariff research, tariff classification, and trade remedy adjudication — the country's independent advisory and…

• Diego de los Ríos

  Also: Diego de los Ríos y Nicolau — full name, Don Diego de los Ríos, The last Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines

  Diego de los Ríos y Nicolau (April 9, 1850, Guadalajara, Spain – November 4, 1911, Madrid) was a Spanish lieutenant general and colonial administrator, the…

• Batas Pambansa Blg. 883

  Also: BP Blg. 883, BP 883, Batas Pambansa Bilang 883

  Batas Pambansa Blg. 883 is the statute enacted by the Batasang Pambansa and approved on December 3, 1985, officially titled "An Act Calling a Special…

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