Manufacturing And Possession Of Instruments Or Implements For Falsification
On Criminal Law
ART.176.
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.
Article 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.
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.
Article 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.
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