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Article 176. Manufacturing and possession of instruments or implements for falsification. - The penalty of prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods and a fine not to exceed One million pesos (P1,000,000) shall be imposed upon any person who shall make or introduce into the Philippines any stamps, dies, marks, or other instruments or implements intended to be used in the commission of the offenses of counterfeiting or falsification mentioned in the preceding sections of this Chapter.

Any person who, with the intention of using them, shall have in his possession any of the instruments or implements mentioned in the preceding paragraphs, shall suffer the penalty next lower in degree than that provided therein.

ACTS PUNISHABLE:
1. Making or introducing into the Philippines any stamps, dies or marks or other instruments or implements for counterfeiting or falsification.
2. Possessing with intent to use the instruments or implements for counterfeiting or falsification made in or introduced into the Philippines by another person.

NOTES:

The implements confiscated need not form a complete set. It is enough that they may be employed by themselves or together with other implements to commit the crime of counterfeiting or falsification.

Constructive possession is also punished.

Articles 165 and 176 of the Revised Penal Code also punish constructive possession.

As in Art. 165, the possession contemplated here is constructive possession. The implements confiscated need not form a complete set.