Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ____ 
Introduced by HON. LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.,  
HON. MIGUEL LUIS R. VILLAFUERTE, HON. TSUYOSHI ANTHONY G. 
HORIBATA AND HON. NICOLAS “NICK” C. ENCISO VIII 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The 1987 Philippine Constitution guarantees the protection of fundamental human 
rights. Section 1 Article 3 of the 1987 Constitution states that no person shall be 
deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor shall any person 
be denied the equal protection of the laws. 
In addition, Section 14 Article 2 expressly provides that the State recognizes the role 
of women in nation-building, and shall ensure the fundamental equality before the law 
of women and men. This constitutional provision was strengthened by Article 135 of 
the Labor Code stating that it shall be unlawful for any employer to discriminate against 
any woman employee with respect to terms and conditions of employment solely on 
account of her sex. The same Code also prohibits child discrimination as provided by 
Article 140. However, despite numerous enacted laws, discrimination and inequality 
remain a challenge in the modern day when society is more accepting of LGBTQ. 
Ichong vs. Hernandez explains that, “The equal protection of the law clause is against 
undue favor and individual or class privilege, as well as hostile discrimination or the 
oppression of inequality.” This bill seeks to contribute to the achieving the purpose of 
equal protection of the law, and address the continuing problems of discrimination and 
inequality. 
The approval of this bill is earnestly sought. 
LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR. 
 MIGUEL LUIS R. VILLAFUERTE 
TSUYOSHI ANTHONY G. HORIBATA 
NICOLAS “NICK” C. ENCISO VIII 
August 23, 2022
2:00 pm
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ____ 
Introduced by HON. LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.,  
HON. MIGUEL LUIS R. VILLAFUERTE, HON. TSUYOSHI ANTHONY G. 
HORIBATA AND HON. NICOLAS “NICK” C. ENCISO VIII 
AN ACT  
PROTECTING AND PROMOTING THE RIGHTS TO EQUALITY AND NON-
DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF RACE, ETHNICITY AND RELIGION 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Equality and Non-
Discrimination on Race, Ethnicity and Religion Act.” 
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. – As enshrined in the Constitution, it is the policy 
of the State to: 
a.
maintain peace and order, protect life, liberty and property, and to promote the
general welfare for the enjoyment of the blessings of democracy by all people;
b.
promote a just and dynamic social order that will ensure the prosperity and
independence of the nation and free the people from poverty through policies
that provide adequate social services, promote full employment, a rising standard
of living and an improved quality of life;
c.
recognize and promote the rights of indigenous cultural communities within the
framework of national unity and development; and
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d. 
give the highest priority to the enactment of measures that shall protect and 
enhance the right of all people to human dignity; reduce social, economic and 
political inequalities; and remove cultural inequities by equitably diffusing wealth 
and political power for the common good. 
 
It is also the policy of the State to uphold human dignity and equality of all 
persons, regardless of race, age, gender, ethnicity or religion, consistent with its 
obligations as State Party to various international human rights instruments, 
particularly the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on 
Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural 
Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the 
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the 
Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. As such, the State shall not allow the 
commission of acts which directly or indirectly derogate these fundamental human 
rights. 
 
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms. – As used in this Act: 
a. 
Discrimination refers to any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference 
made on the basis of race color, descent, national or ethnic origin, religion, or 
religious affiliation or beliefs which has the effect or purpose of impairing or 
nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise on an equal footing, of the 
human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, 
cultural, civil or any other field of public life of a person. Discrimination includes 
incitement to discrimination and harassment. 
 
b. 
Education and Training refer to all types and levels of education and training, 
and shall include access, standard and quality of education and training, and the 
conditions under which these are given. 
 
c. 
Employment refers to the condition where an employer-employee relationship 
exists as determined by existing law and jurisprudence, including those 
pertaining to terms, conditions and privileges relating to work in public and private 
institutions, such as recruitment policies, application procedures, training, 


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incentives, compensation, determination of benefits or allowances, promotion, 
advancement opportunities, transfer and dismissal. 
 
d. 
Ethnic Origin refers to the classification of people based on common color, 
racial, national, tribal, religious, ethno-linguistic or cultural origin or background. 
 
e. 
Ethno-linguistic Group refers to a group of people that shares a distinct 
language, cultural inheritance and history that give them a unique identity and 
which has racial, ethnic and religious bases. 
 
f. 
Goods and Services refers to the material and non-material products or things 
of value offered for sale to satisfy needs and wants for survival, comfort, or 
pleasure such as those provided by restaurants, resorts, hotels, clubs, stores 
and shopping malls; or acts or services provided by credit or financial 
establishments, public utilities and services, professionals, maintenance and 
repair workers, laborers and similar workers. 
 
g. 
Housing and other accommodation refer to a house, apartment, 
condominium, townhouse, flat, motel, boarding house, hotel, dormitory, shelter, 
elderly home, rehabilitation facility, orphanage, health facility including a mental 
health facility, detention center, camping ground and other analogous places. 
 
h. 
Indigenous Cultural Communities and Indigenous peoples refer to a group 
of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by 
others, who have continuously lived as an organized community on communally 
bounded and defined territory and who have, under claims of ownership since 
time immemorial, occupied, possessed and utilized such territories, sharing 
common bonds of language, customs, tradition and other distinctive cultural 
traits, or who have, through resistance to political, social and cultural inroads of 
colonization, non-indigenous religions and culture, become historically 
differentiated from the majority of Filipinos. Indigenous cultural communities and 
indigenous peoples shall likewise include peoples who are regarded as 
indigenous on account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the 
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indigenous religions and cultures, or the establishment of present state 
boundaries, who retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and 
political institutions, but who may have been displaced from their traditional 
domains or who may have resettled outside their ancestral domains. 
 
i. 
Religious Affiliation or Belief refers to the profession or non-profession of 
religion or beliefs of one's choice that may be publicly manifested in worship, 
practice and teaching. 
 
j. 
Stereotype refers to a thought adopted about specific kinds of religions or 
ethnicities, or persons who practice a specific religion or who belong to a specific 
ethnic background, specifically with reference to their beliefs and ways of doing 
things, which are based upon oversimplified opinions or intolerant attitudes, 
regardless of whether such thoughts or beliefs accurately reflect reality. 
 
k. 
Stereotyping refers to any act or combination of acts which result in the singling 
out or profiling of a person or class of persons based on a stereotype as defined 
in the immediately preceding paragraph, which results in a derogatory attitude 
towards any person or any derogatory treatment against such person or class of 
persons. 
 
l. 
Vehicle refers to a train, ship, bus, taxi, car, or aircraft, and such other forms of 
public conveyance and transport. 
 
SECTION 4. Acts of Discrimination. – It is unlawful for any person, natural or 
juridical, to perform any act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference 
based on race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin, religion, or religious affiliation 
or beliefs which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, 
enjoyment or exercise on an equal footing of any human right or fundamental freedom 
in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field of public life. 
 
An act is deemed discriminatory when a person requires another person to comply 
with a term, condition or requirement which are not reasonable, having regard to the 
circumstances of the case; or the other person does not or cannot comply with the 


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term, condition or requirement; and the requirement to comply has the purpose or 
effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise on an equal 
footing by persons of the same race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin, religion, 
or religious affiliation or beliefs. 
 
SECTION 5. Prohibited Acts. – The following acts of discrimination, when committed 
on the basis of race, color, descent, national or ethnic origin, religion, or religious 
affiliation or beliefs, against a person or any of one's relative, representative or 
assignee of that person, are deemed discriminatory, and shall be prohibited: 
 
a. 
Discrimination in Political Participation. – A person acting as principal or as 
an agent shall be held liable for the commission of any of the following acts:  
1.  
Preventing, impeding, prohibiting, obstructing or intervening in the exercise 
of political rights by another, including the right to vote and be voted upon 
in a national or local election, both regular or special, or in a plebiscite, both 
initiative or referendum; 
2. 
Imposing onerous terms before these political rights are granted, preserved 
or protected; or 
3. 
Subjecting another person who wants to exercise a political right to any act 
of discrimination. 
 
b.  
Discrimination in Employment. –  
1.  
An employer or head of a firm, company or organization shall be held liable 
for any of the following discriminatory acts: 
(a)  Refusing or failing to employ another for work of any type or kind which 
is available and for which the person is qualified, or by imposing on the 
person onerous terms or conditions; 
(b)  Denying or limiting access of an employee to the same terms and 
conditions of work, opportunities for training, transfer or promotion, or to 
other benefits connected with the employment as are made available for 
other employees having the same qualifications and employed in the 
same circumstances or work of the same kind or type, or by imposing on 
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(c)  Dismissing an employee, or subjecting an applicant for employment or 
an employee to any act of discrimination on account of one's 
employment. 
2.  
A person acting as principal or agent in procuring employment for other 
persons or procuring employees for an employer shall be held liable for 
treating an applicant seeking employment less favorably than another 
person in the same circumstances who is likewise seeking employment. 
3.  
A person acting as principal or agent of any organization of employers or 
employees, or any person acting or purporting to act on behalf of such 
organization, shall be liable for preventing or seeking to prevent a person 
from offering employment to another or for preventing the continued 
employment of a person; and 
4. 
A person responsible for providing the proper facilities mandated by law to 
those whose physical disabilities reduce their range of mobility who fails to 
make reasonable efforts to make these facilities available or accessible. 
 
c.  
Discrimination in Education and Training. – A person who heads or owns an 
educational or training institution, including any officer, employee or person 
acting on behalf of the head or owner of such institution shall be liable for any of 
the following discriminatory acts: 
1.  
Refusing or failing to admit a student, or expelling a student from an 
educational or training institution on the basis of religious affiliation or belief, 
without prejudice to the right of educational institutions to determine the 
academic qualifications and non-academic training requirements of their 
students; 
2.  
Denying or limiting access of a student to any benefit or privilege provided 
by the institution; 
3. 
Failing to make reasonable efforts to make facilities accessible to people 
whose disabilities reduce their range of mobility; and 
4. 
Subjecting the student to any other act of discrimination against one's right 
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d.  
Discrimination in the Delivery of Goods and Services. – A person acting as 
principal or agent who supplies goods or services to the public or to any section 
of the public shall be liable for any of the following discriminatory acts: 
1. 
Refusing or failing on demand to supply those goods or services to a 
person; 
2. 
Refusing or failing on demand to supply those goods or services to another 
person except on less favorable terms or conditions than those upon whom 
they would otherwise supply those goods or services; or 
3. 
Subjecting another person to any other act of discrimination in connection 
with the provision of goods or services. 
4. 
Denying access to medical or health services open to the general public, 
and denying application for a license, clearance, certification or any other 
document issued by government authorities or other entities, with no lawful, 
valid or reasonable grounds. 
 
e. 
Discrimination in the Acquisition, Possession, Utilization, Lease or 
Disposal of Lands, including Housing and other Accommodations. – 
1. 
A person acting as principal or agent in the acquisition, possession, 
utilization, leasing or disposal of lands or interest thereof, including housing 
and other accommodations, shall be liable for any of the following 
discriminatory acts: 
a)  
Refusing or failing to accept or process the application for any land or 
interest thereof including housing and other accommodations; 
b)  
Disposing of such land or interest, or housing and other accommodations 
to another person on less favorable terms or conditions than those which 
are or would otherwise be offered; 
c)  
Treating another person who is seeking to acquire or has acquired an 
estate, land or interest thereof, housing and other accommodations less 
favorably than to others in the same circumstances; 
d)  
Refusing to permit another person to occupy any estate, land, housing and 
other accommodations; 
e)  
Excluding any estate, land or interest thereof of another person or rejecting 
the right of another person to occupy any estate, land or housing and other 
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f)  
Subjecting an applicant to any other act of discrimination in the acquisition, 
possession, utilization, lease or disposal of estate, land or interest thereof, 
housing and other accommodations; and 
g)  
Imposing or seeking to impose on another person any term or condition that 
limits the persons or class of persons who may be the clients, visitors or 
guests of any land or residential or business accommodation, on the basis 
of any grounds that would constitute discrimination. 
 
f. 
 Discrimination in Access to Public Places, Facilities and Public Meetings. 
– A person acting as principal or agent shall be liable for any of the following 
discriminatory acts:  
1. 
Refusing to allow another person access to or use of any place, vehicle or 
facilities that the general public or section thereof is entitled or allowed to 
enter or use; 
2. 
Refusing to allow another person access to or use of any such place, 
vehicle or facilities by providing onerous terms or conditions not similar to 
others who are allowed access to or use of the place, vehicle, or facilities; 
3. 
Refusing to allow another person access to a meeting or assembly open to 
the general public or to a section thereof, or refusing to allow another 
access to a meeting or assembly by providing onerous terms or conditions 
not similar to others to which they would otherwise allow access to a 
meeting or assembly; 
4. 
Requiring another person to leave or to stop the use of any public place, 
vehicle or any such facilities; 
5. 
Subjecting a person to a denial of access to public places, facilities or public 
meetings; or 
6. 
Failing to make reasonable efforts to make facilities accessible to people 
whose disabilities reduce their range of mobility. 
 
g. 
Discrimination in Advertisement/Mass Media. – It shall be unlawful for a 
person to publish or display, or cause or permit to published or displayed, an 
advertisement or notice that indicates or could reasonably be understood as an 
act of discrimination. Any person acting as principal or agent shall be liable for 
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1. 
Portraying certain persons in movies, films, and advertisements on 
television and other audio-visual forms and other publicly accessible 
documents as stupid, barbaric, savage, dirty, wild, ignorant, stupid and 
similar degrading or unrealistic, portrayal; or 
 
2. 
Publishing, displaying, or causing or permitting to be published or displayed 
an advertisement or notice that indicates or could reasonably be 
understood as an act of discrimination 
 
h. 
Discrimination by Wrongful Portrayal. – A person acting as principal or agent 
shall be held liable for portraying, imitating, depicting or describing in learning 
institutions, instructional materials, teaching devices, books and reference 
materials, especially in Civics and History, certain individuals and/or group/s as 
inferior religiously, racially or ethnically. 
 
i. 
Discrimination through Speech, Utterances, Acts of Hatred and Similar 
Acts. – Any person shall be held liable for delivering speeches or making 
utterances, performing acts of hatred or violence against another person or 
mocking, or ridiculing other person on account of one’s ethnicity, race, or 
religious affiliation or belief. 
 
j. 
Discrimination through Analogous Acts that Result in Impairment of the 
Enjoyment of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. – A person acting 
as principal or agent shall be liable for analogous acts which have the effect or 
purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise of the 
person's human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, 
social, cultural, civil spheres or any other field of public life, and where such rights 
and freedoms are guaranteed and consistent with relevant international human 
rights instruments to which the Philippines is a State Party thereof, and where 
such analogous acts are committed on the basis of race, color, descent, national 
or ethnic origin, religion, or religious affiliation or beliefs. 
 
k.  
Discrimination by Engaging in Profiling. – A person acting as principal or 
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be held liable for subjecting a person or a group or groups of persons to 
investigatory activities, such as unnecessary, unjustified, illegal and degrading 
searches and similar acts, which are unlawful, immoral or socially unacceptable. 
 
l.  
Discrimination through Abuses of State and Non-State Actors. – A 
government official or employee of any government agency or corporation, local 
government unit, police, military or any law enforcement agency, including non-
state actors, shall be liable if that official or employee commits acts of 
harassment, verbally or physically, to curtail freedom of movement of any person 
or group of persons, or to extort a favor from the latter, whether financial or not. 
These shall include acts of involuntarily detaining or confining a person or group 
of persons. These shall not include legitimate orders issued by persons in 
authority or courts of justice. 
 
SECTION 6. Person/s Liable. – Any person, natural or juridical, including a 
government agency or a private corporation, institution or company, who performs a 
discriminatory act as described in the preceding section shall be liable under this Act. 
Any person who requests, instructs, induces, encourages, authorizes or assists 
another to commit acts of discrimination shall also be liable under this Act. Any person 
who is duty-bound to act on complaints or discrimination under this Act but fails or 
refuses to do so shall be deemed to have sanctioned the discriminatory act, and shall 
consequently be held equally liable for discrimination. 
 
SECTION 7. Inciting Others to Commit Acts of Discrimination. –  Any person 
acting as principal or agent shall be liable for: 
a. 
inciting the performance of an act that is unlawful by reason of a provision of this 
Act; or 
b. 
assisting or promoting, whether by financial assistance or otherwise, the 
performance or perpetration of such an act. 
 
SECTION 8. Creation of a Non-discrimination and Equal Opportunity Committee. 
–  In order to ensure compliance with this Act, all agencies, corporations, companies, 
organizations, and educational and/ or training institutions, whether private or public, 
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basic goods and services shall create a Non-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity 
Committee, hereinafter referred to as the Non-Discrimination Committee, which shall 
exercise administrative jurisdiction to investigate acts and practices of discrimination 
under this Act. 
 
The Non-Discrimination Committee shall conduct the initial investigation of cases 
constituting discrimination on the basis of race, ethnic background, religion, religious 
affiliation or beliefs. The result and findings of such investigation shall be referred to 
the appropriate government agencies for resolution, settlement or prosecution. 
 
Any administrative sanction on the perpetrator of discrimination shall not be a bar to 
any prosecution in the proper courts on any act of discrimination committed on the 
basis of race, ethnic background, religion, religious affiliation, religious beliefs, or to 
any civil claim for damages suffered by the victim of discrimination 
 
The failure of any juridical entity, whether public or private, to ensure effective 
implementation of this provision shall be deemed refusal to address discrimination and 
shall be considered as an act of discrimination, subject to the penalty provided for in 
Section hereof. 
 
SECTION 9. Duty of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). – It shall be the 
duty of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), in coordination with the National 
Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), the National Commission on Muslim 
Filipinos (NCMF), the Civil Service Commission, and other relevant government 
agencies, to protect and promote the right of all persons against discrimination. 
Towards this end, the CHR shall: 
a.  
Assist government agencies in the development and review of procedures for 
the investigation, resolution, settlement, or prosecution of acts of discrimination; 
b.  
Monitor the implementation of this Act by agencies, corporations, companies, 
organizations and educational and/ or training institutions, whether private or 
public; 
c. 
Promulgate appropriate rules and regulations for the investigation of 
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d. 
Establish guidelines and mechanisms that will facilitate access of discriminated 
persons to legal remedies under the Act and related laws, and enhance the 
protection and promotion of the rights of the Filipino people against 
discrimination. 
e. 
Coordinate with the Department of Education (DepEd), the Commission on 
Higher Education (CHED), state universities and colleges, public or private, and 
technical education and skills development authority (TESDA) for the promotion 
of understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity in schools and other 
learning modalities, and ensuring that books, reference materials, and other 
learning resources used in education programs are free from discriminatory 
content; 
f. 
Conduct consultations with indigenous peoples, ethno-linguistic groups and 
religious organizations or religious communities; and 
g. 
Assist in the filing of cases against individuals, agencies, institutions or 
establishments, whether public or private, that violate the provisions of this Act. 
For this purpose, the CHR shall: 
1. Provide legal assistance to victims of discrimination such as through the 
preparation of necessary pleadings, referral letters, and counseling; 
2. Forge 
Memoranda 
of 
Agreement 
with 
lawyers' 
associations, 
nongovernmental organizations, law firms and organizations that provide 
legal aid to victims of discrimination to ensure adequate and competent 
legal representation for the complainants; 
3. Accredit lawyers who will accept cases under this Act, pro bono; and 
4. Create an efficient system of case referrals to appropriate government 
department or agencies. 
 
SECTION 10. Responsibility to Promote a Non-Discrimination and Equal 
Opportunity Environment. – It shall be the duty of every person, natural or juridical, 
public or private, to ensure non-discrimination and equal opportunity to all persons 
when relating to actual or prospective employees, students, tenants, customers, or 
clients and that no discriminatory acts, as defined herein, are committed by them or 
their agents. 
All government officers and workers are likewise obliged to promote and observe 
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SECTION 11. Common Penal Provisions. – Any person found liable for violating any 
provision of this Act shall be penalized by arresto mayor or imprisonment for a period 
of not less than thirty (30) days or not more than six (6) months and/or a fine of not 
less than Ten thousand pesos (Php 10,000.00) nor more than One hundred thousand 
pesos (Php 100,000.00), taking into consideration the circumstances and gravity of 
the offense, and the following conditions: 
a. 
The penalty provided under this Act shall be imposed in its maximum period if 
the offender has been previously convicted under this Act; 
 
b. 
When the offender is a corporation, partnership or association, the officer, agent 
or employee thereof who is responsible for the violation of this Act shall suffer 
the penalty imposed in its maximum period; 
 
c. 
The penalty provided herein shall be imposed in its maximum period when the 
perpetrator is an ascendant, parent, guardian, stepparent or collateral relative 
within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity of the victim, or is the 
manager or owner of an establishment which has no license to operate or whose 
license has expired or has been previously revoked; 
 
d. 
The offender who is a foreigner shall be deported immediately after service of 
sentence and shall be perpetually barred entry into the country; 
 
e. 
The penalty provided for in this Act shall be imposed in its maximum period if the 
offender is a public official, officer or employee: Provided, That the penalty of 
suspension shall also be imposed. 
 
SECTION 12. Administrative Proceedings and Sanctions. – Upon finding by the 
Non-Discrimination Committee that a department, agency, or instrumentality of 
government, government-owned and controlled corporation, or local government unit 
has violated any provision of this Act and its implementing rules and regulations, the 
sanctions under administrative law, civil service law, rules and regulations, or other 
appropriate laws shall be recommended to the Civil Service Commission, or the 
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employees, or to the Department of Labor, in the case of officers and employees of 
private corporations or entities. The person directly responsible for the violation as well 
as the head of the agency or local chief executive shall be held liable under this Act. 
The failure of a head of agency, government official or employee whose duty is 
to prosecute or otherwise act on a complaint for a violation of this Act shall constitute 
neglect of duty on the part of such official or employee. 
 
SECTION 13. Reparation to Victims. – In addition to existing laws and procedural 
rules or reparation to victims, the following measures shall be undertaken: 
a. 
The court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial body shall follow the principles 
relating to the reparations to, or in respect of, victims, including restitution, 
compensation and rehabilitation. In their decisions, the court, administrative 
agency, or quasi-judicial body may, either upon request or on their own volition, 
in exceptional circumstances, determine the scope and extent of any damage, 
loss or injury to the victims, stating therein the principles on which they are acting; 
 
b. 
The court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial body may make an order 
directly against a person convicted by a judgement that has become final and 
executory, specifying appropriate reparation to, or in respect of victims, including 
restitution, compensation and rehabilitation; and 
 
c. 
Before making an order under this section, the court, administrative agency, or 
quasi-judicial body shall invite and shall consider representations from, or on 
behalf of, the convicted person, victims or other interested persons. 
 
Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as prejudicing the rights of victims under 
national or international law. 
 
SECTION 14. Appropriations. – The Chairperson of the CHR shall include in the 
CHR's program the implementation of this Act, the initial funding of which shall be 
charged against the current appropriation of the Commission. Thereafter, the amount 
necessary for the continued implementation of this Act, shall be included in the annual 
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SECTION 15. Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). –  The CHR, in 
consultation with the NCIP, NCMF, and other stakeholders shall, within ninety (90) 
days from the effectivity of this Act, promulgate the rules and regulations to implement 
it. 
 
SECTION 16. Repealing Clause. – Any provision of law or regulation inconsistent 
herewith is hereby repealed, revoked or modified accordingly. 
 
SECTION 17. Separability Clause. – If any portion of this Act is declared as 
unconstitutional or invalid, the remaining portions not affected thereby shall continue 
to have force and effect. 
 
SECTION 18. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication 3 in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation. 
 
Approved,