PHILIPPINE POLITICAL LAWS

This is your reference to PHILIPPINE POLITICAL LAWS.

A COMPILATION OF SUPREME COURT RULINGS ON ELECTION CASES

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7160 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF 1991 (BOOK I TO IV)

THE PHILIPPINE BILL OF JULY 1, 1902 - ACT OF CONGRESS OF JULY FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWO, "THE PHILIPPINE BILL." AN ACT TEMPORARILY TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE AFFAIRS OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

THE PHILIPPINE AUTONOMY ACT (JONES LAW) - AN ACT TO DECLARE THE PURPOSE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES AS TO THE FUTURE POLITICAL STATUS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AND TO PROVIDE A MORE AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT FOR THOSE ISLANDS.

THE PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE ACT (TYDINGS-MCDUFFIE ACT) - AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CONSTITUTION AND A FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

BATAS PAMBANSA BILANG 881 - OMNIBUS ELECTION CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES

COMELEC RULES OF PROCEDURE

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO.157 - PROVIDING FOR ABSENTEE VOTING BY OFFICER AND EMPLOYEES OF GOVERNMENT WHO ARE AWAY FROM THE PLACE OF THEIR REGISTRATION BY REASON OF OFFICIAL FUNCTIONS ON ELECTION DAY


REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6636 - AN ACT RESETTING THE LOCAL ELECTIONS FROM NOVEMBER 9, 1987 TO JANUARY 18, 1988, AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBERED TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6637 - AN ACT AMENDING SECTIONS ONE AND FOUR OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED SIXTY-SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6644 - AN ACT REDUCING THE MINIMUM AGE OF THE DIFFERENT ELECTIVE LOCAL OFFICIALS BY AMENDING SECTION FORTY-TWO OF BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. TATLONG DAAN TATLUMPU'T PITO, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6646 - THE ELECTORAL REFORMS LAW OF 1987

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6653 - AN ACT TO POSTPONE THE MAY 9, 1988 BARANGAY ELECTIONS TO THE SECOND MONDAY OF NOVEMBER THIS YEAR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6679 - AN ACT TO AMEND REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6653 TO POSTPONE THE BARANGAY ELECTIONS TO MARCH 28, 1989, PRESCRIBING ADDITIONAL RULES GOVERNING THE CONDUCT OF BARANGAY ELECTION AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7056 - AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS IN 1992, PAVE THE WAY FOR SYNCHRONIZED AND SIMULTANEOUS ELECTIONS BEGINNING 1995, AND AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS THEREFOR

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7166 - AN ACT PROVIDING FOR SYNCHRONIZED NATIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS AND FOR ELECTORAL REFORMS, AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7941 - PARTY-LIST SYSTEM ACT

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8046 - AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS TO CONDUCT A NATIONWIDE DEMONSTRATION OF A COMPUTERIZED ELECTION SYSTEM AND PILOT-TEST IT IN THE MARCH 1996 ELECTIONS IN THE AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM MINDANAO (ARMM) AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8189 - THE VOTER'S REGISTRATION ACT OF 1996

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9006 - FAIR ELECTION ACT



REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9189 - THE OVERSEAS ABSENTEE VOTING ACT OF 2003



EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 292 - THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF 1987 (BOOK I TO VII)

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6975 - DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT OF 1990

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6734 - AN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN ORGANIC ACT FOR THE AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM MINDANAO

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6649 - THE REGIONAL CONSULTATIVE COMMISSION ACT OF 1988 FOR THE AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM MINDANAO

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8438 - AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE CORDILLERA AUTONOMOUS REGION

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6658 - THE CORDILLERA REGIONAL CONSULTATIVE COMMISSION ACT OF 1988

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8551 - PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE REFORM AND REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1998

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8491 - FLAG AND HERALDIC CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES

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