Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
TWENTIETH (20th) CONGRESS 
FIRST REGULAR SESSION 
House Bill No. ____
Introduced by 
Rep. ROBERT NAZAL 
AN ACT  
PROMOTING POSITIVE AND NON-VIOLENT DISCIPLINE  
OF CHILDREN AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child defines "corporal" or 
"physical" punishment as any punishment in which physical force is used and intended 
to cause some degree of pain or discomfort, however light.1 The UN Committee also 
considers as corporal punishment other non-physical but equally cruel degrading forms 
of punishment, which include "punishment which belittles, humiliates, denigrates, 
scapegoats, threatens, scares or ridicules the child." 
Corporal punishment is very common in the Philippines. The most abusive acts were 
those inflicted by parents in the name of discipline. Studies and surveys show that 
parents in the Philippines discipline and punish their children through the use of corporal 
or physical punishment such as spanking with hand, pinching, hitting with an object, 
twisting the child's ear, pulling the hair, slapping the face or head, confinement in a sack, 
or shaking.2 Filipino children also experience threats of physical punishment and 
humiliating treatments such as being shouted at in front of others, labeled, and 
denigrated.3 85% of children surveyed said that they were punished in the home, and 
82% said that they were hit in different parts of the body.  
Corporal punishment is ineffective in disciplining children of all ages. Most often, it 
produces anger, resentment, and low-self-esteem among children.4 It also teaches the 
child that violence is acceptable behavior and is a solution to problems; thus, corporal 
4
 Supra note 2. 
3
Paintal, Sureshrani (2007), Banning Corporal Punishment of Children: A Position Paper, available at 
http://www.stoph itting.com/pdf/sureshrani.pdf 
2
Id. Save the Children —Sweden (Unpublished; 2005), Research on corporal punishment in Bagong 
Silang, Caloocan City and Cebu City. 
1
 PLCPD, supra, note I, World Health Organization, World Report on Violence and Health 63 (2002); 
Save the Children-Sweden, What Children Say: Results of the Comparative Research on the Physical 
and Emotional Punishment of Children in Southeast Asia and Pacific 12-19 (2006). 
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punishment perpetuates itself as children imitate the violent actions of adults.5 In fact, 
parents admit that they feel guilty and sorry about punishing their children but they are 
not aware of any other way of disciplining children except for what they learned from 
their own parents and grandparents. Parents have expressed the need for alternative 
positive and non-violent methods for disciplining children.6 
The proposed Positive and Non-Violent Discipline of Children Bill aims to prohibit 
corporal punishment and all other forms of humiliating or degrading punishment of 
children in all settings and to promote positive and non-violent discipline of children. It 
borrows from and builds upon House Bill No. 8239 (17th Congress), which the House of 
Representatives approved on the third and final reading, effectively reintroducing the 
measure. 
The bill seeks to strengthen the country's laws, policies, and programs in respecting 
children's rights, human dignity, physical integrity, and equal protection of law in 
compliance with the Philippine government's obligation to the UN Convention on the 
Rights of the Child. The bill specifically outlines all prohibited forms of physical and 
degrading or humiliating punishment of children at home, in schools, in institutions, in 
alternative care systems, and in all other settings. The proposed prohibited acts include 
but shall not be limited to forcing the minor to kneel on stones, salt or pebbles, 
squatting, public humiliation, deliberate neglect of child's physical needs, exposure to 
substances that can cause discomfort or pain, verbal assaults, and imposing tasks that 
the minor is incapable of doing such as forcing to skip sleeping or eating. 
In view of the foregoing, the urgent approval of this bill is earnestly sought. 
Rep. ROBERT NAZAL 
Bagong Henerasyon Party-List 
6    Save the Children-Sweden (Unpublished;2005), Research on corporal punishment in Bagong Silang, 
 Caloocan City and Cebu City, Philippines; NORFIL (2005), Documentation of a consultation with the 
Active Youth movement and Children and Youth Organization on physical and emotional punishment 
of children, NORFIL, Quezon City, p.12. 
5    Harper, Kate et.al (2005), Ending Physical and Humiliating Punishment of Children, A Manual for 
Action, Save the Children, pp. 8-11. 


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
TWENTIETH (20th) CONGRESS 
FIRST REGULAR SESSION 
House Bill No. ____
Introduced by 
Rep. ROBERT NAZAL 
AN ACT  
PROMOTING POSITIVE AND NON-VIOLENT DISCIPLINE OF CHILDREN 
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
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 "Positive and Nonviolent Discipline of Children Act". 
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. 
The State recognizes that the family, being the foundation of the nation, is a basic social 
institution which public policy cherishes and protects, and that parents are primarily 
responsible in the rearing and nurturing of their children. To this end, the State shall, 
pursuant to its constitutional mandate, protect and strengthen the family as a basic, 
autonomous social institution, and support the natural, primary right and duty of parents 
in the rearing of youth for the development of their moral character and civic efficiency. 
As such, the State shall respect the rights of parents to rear their children in whatever 
manner they deem appropriate for as long as it does not violate the rights of the 
children.  
The State likewise recognizes the vital role of the child and the youth in nation building 
and shall promote and protect their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, and social 
well-being. Pursuant thereto, a child has the right to be protected from all forms of 
physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, and 
maltreatment or exploitation, as a form of discipline while in the care of parents, legal 
guardians, or any other person who has the care and/or custody of the child, whether 
permanent or temporary. Such treatment or punishment violates the child's rights, 
human dignity and physical integrity.  
As such, the State shall: 
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A.​
Recognize and uphold the right of the child as human being, individual, and 
member of a family and community, to equal protection of the law; 
 
B.​
Promote positive and nonviolent discipline of children at home, in school, in 
institutions, in alternative care systems, in workplaces and in all other settings by 
encouraging behavior change in adults and establish the necessary structures and 
mechanisms and mobilize resources to make this possible; 
 
C.​
Defend the right of the child to assistance, including proper care and nutrition, and 
special protection from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation and other 
conditions prejudicial to their development; 
 
D.​
Protect the best interests of the child through measures that will ensure the 
observance of international standards of child protection, especially those 
expressed in international conventions and treaties to which the Philippines is a 
party to, particularly the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child 
(UNCRC); 
 
E.​
Respect the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents, guardians or other 
persons legally responsible for the child, including those exercising special or 
substitute parental authority as those provided for under Presidential Decree No. 
603, otherwise known as the "Child and Youth Welfare Code", as amended; 
Executive Order No. 209, otherwise known as the "Family Code of the 
Philippines", as amended; and Republic Act No. 7610, as amended, otherwise 
known as the "Special Protection of Children Against Child Abuse, Exploitation 
and Discrimination Act"; to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving 
capacities of the child, appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise of the 
child's rights;  
 
F.​
Provide an enabling environment for parents to empower themselves and fulfill 
their parental obligations to discipline their child through positive and nonviolent 
means;  
 
G.​
Ensure that school discipline is administered in a manner that respects the child's 
human dignity;  
 
H.​
Promote the principles of restorative justice in cases involving parents, guardians 
or other adults caring for the child; and  
 
I.​
Protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury from abuse, 
neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, while in the custody of 
parents, guardians, or any other person under whose care the child is entrusted. 
Such protective measures shall include effective procedures for the establishment 
of social programs to provide necessary support for the child and for those who 
care for the child, other forms of prevention, identification, reporting, referral, 
 


 
investigation, treatment and follow-up of instances of child maltreatment, and, as 
appropriate, for legal or judicial action.  
 
This law is not meant to interfere with the primary responsibility of parents or persons 
legally responsible for the child in the home setting to rear and discipline their child as 
enshrined in the Constitution. Neither it is the intention to give the State control over the 
parenting or disciplinary method of a parent.  
 
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms. 
 
As used in this Act:  
 
A.​
Child refers to a person who is below eighteen (18) years of age, or over but is 
unable to fully take care of one's self or protect one's self from abuse, neglect, 
cruelty, exploitation or discrimination because of a physical or mental disability or 
condition, as defined under Republic Act No. 7610, as amended;  
 
B.​
Foster parents refer to persons duly licensed by the Department of Social Welfare 
and Development (DSWD) to provide planned, temporary, or substitute parental 
care to a child;  
 
C.​
Guardians refer to legal guardians, foster parents, and other persons, including 
relatives, with physical custody of a child;  
 
D.​
Institutions refer to residential and nonresidential child-caring agencies, including 
youth homes, youth rehabilitation centers, drop-in centers, temporary shelters and 
orphanages, and churches or religious centers, including places of worship and 
parish centers;  
 
E.​
Parents refer to biological parents, stepparents, adoptive parents, or the common- 
law spouse or partner of the parent;  
 
F.​
Persons legally responsible for the child, including those exercising special or 
substitute parental authority refer to those provided for under Executive Order No. 
209 otherwise known as the "Family Code of the Philippines" as amended; In case 
of death, absence or unsuitability of the parents, the following shall exercise 
substitute parental authority in this order: (1) surviving grandparent; (2) the oldest 
brother or sister, over twenty-one (21) years of age; and (3) the child's actual 
custodian, over twenty one (21) years old. In case of foundlings, abandoned, 
neglected, or abused children, parental authority is entrusted to heads of children's 
homes, orphanages and similar institutions duly accredited by the proper 
government agency. School administrators and teachers, or the individual, entity or 
institution engaged in child care shall have parental authority and responsibility of 
the minor child while under their supervision, instruction and custody. 
 
G.​
Physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of punishment refer to any form 
 


 
of punishment or discipline in which physical force is used and intended to cause 
pain or discomfort or any nonphysical act that causes a child to feel belittled, 
denigrated, threatened, or ridiculed;  
 
H.​
Positive and nonviolent discipline refers to a holistic, constructive and proactive 
approach to parenting or teaching that helps the child develop appropriate thinking 
and behavior in the short and long terms by providing tools that build self-discipline 
and emotional control, and to build a good relationship with the child by 
understanding the child's needs and capabilities at various ages and the behavior 
that is usual for the child at each stage of development. This is achieved by 
providing a warm and caring environment, building the child's competence and 
confidence, assisting the child in understanding and abiding by rules, fostering 
healthy relationships, and teaching the child life-long skills and respect for human 
rights. Positive and nonviolent discipline is based on the principles of child's rights 
and development and effective teaching and parenting;  
 
I.​
Restorative justice refers to a principle which requires a process of resolving 
conflicts with the involvement of the victim, the offender and the community. It 
focuses on the harm that has been done to people and relationships which create 
obligations and liabilities. The principle of restorative justice using positive and 
nonviolent discipline seeks to rebuild and strengthen the relationship between the 
parents and the child through mediation and agreement in the aftermath of a 
traumatic or violent experience in the family; and  
 
J.​
Service providers refer to persons who, whether in public or private settings, 
provide services to children. These include social workers, center administrators 
and personnel, interns, parent-teacher association officers, house parents, health 
care providers, day care workers, volunteers, security guards in schools and 
centers, guards in a youth detention home, law enforcement officers, barangay 
officials and tanods, and jail officers.  
 
SECTION 4. Promotion of Positive and Nonviolent Discipline. 
 
The DSWD shall, in consultation with the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), 
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Education 
(DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Technical Education and Skills 
Development Authority (TESDA), Department of Health (DOH), Department of Justice 
(DOJ), and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), formulate a comprehensive 
program that shall be implemented to promote positive and nonviolent discipline 
including prevention and response intervention programs. A continuing information 
dissemination campaign shall be conducted nationwide by the DSWD for the parents, 
DILG for the local government officials and the DepEd for the teachers on how to 
practice positive and nonviolent discipline.  
 
All barangay personnel and service providers who will be involved in the management 
of cases and the provision of interventions shall receive the necessary capacity-building 
 


 
programs for the implementation of this Act.  
 
SECTION 5. Protection of the Child from Physical, Humiliating and Degrading 
Acts as a Form of Punishment. 
 
No child shall be subjected to any form of physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a 
form of punishment as defined in Section 3(g) in homes, schools, institutions, alternative 
care systems, the juvenile welfare system, places of religious worship, and in all other 
settings where there is direct contact with a child.  
 
SECTION 6. Reporting Physical, Humiliating and Degrading Acts as a Form of 
Punishment of a Child. 
 
Reports of any physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of punishment of a 
child may be filed by any person having personal knowledge of the act or acts 
complained of.  
 
All reports of the commission of physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of 
punishment of a child shall be brought to the attention of the barangay or the police or 
both.The police shall bring the report to the attention of the barangay and, if needed, a 
health care provider: Provided, That for acts committed in school settings, the reporting 
mechanism to be followed shall be in accordance with the guidelines to be drafted 
under Section 10 (r) of this Act.  
 
SECTION 7. Interventions. 
 
Upon receipt of a report, the Punong Barangay shall determine if the act committed falls 
under the definition of physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of punishment of 
a child under Section 3(g) of this Act. If there is such determination, the Punong 
Barangay shall inform the offender that there is a finding of commission of physical, 
humiliating or degrading acts as a form of punishment. The Punong Barangay shall 
ensure that the offender is familiar with, and 11 understands, positive and nonviolent 
discipline, provide reading materials to the latter, and may:  
 
A.​
Refer both the offender and the offended party to mediation and conciliation; and 
B.​
In extreme cases where the safety of the child is at stake, recommend temporary 
protection orders, taking into consideration the best interest of the child. 
 
The Local Social Welfare Development Officer (LSWDO) shall be informed that a case 
of physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of punishment of a child has been 
reported to the barangay. The LSWDO shall conduct an assessment pursuant to 
Section 10 (e) of this Act. The process of coordination between the barangay, Local 
Council for the Protection of Children (LCPC), and the LSWDO shall be defined in the 
implementing rules and regulations of this Act. In cases of repeat offenders, the Punong 
Barangay shall require the offender to: (1) undertake seminars on positive and 
nonviolent discipline, anger management, and child's rights; (2) undergo counseling or 
 


 
therapy; and/or (3) avail of other rehabilitative services as may be applicable. The child 
shall also be provided counseling and, if necessary, be accorded other proper 
interventions. In school settings, interventions shall be in accordance with the guidelines 
to be drafted under Section 10 (r) of this Act. 
 
Nothing in this Act shall prevent the filing of appropriate criminal cases if the offense is 
punishable under the "Revised Penal Code", as amended, and other special laws.  
 
SECTION 8. Intervening Persons. 
 
In every case of physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of punishment, any 
person who, acting in good faith, responds or intervenes without using violence or 
restraint greater than necessary to ensure the safety of the victim, shall not be 
criminally, civilly or administratively liable.  
However, persons causing a child to lie or fabricate about incidents of physical, 
humiliating and degrading acts shall be liable under existing civil and criminal laws.  
 
SECTION 9. Confidentiality 
 
All records pertaining to cases of physical, humiliating, or degrading acts as a form of 
punishment of a child, including those in the barangay, the police, school, or public or 
private health care facility shall be kept confidential and the right to privacy of the victim 
shall be respected, except upon order of the court for the benefit of the child or to 
prosecute the offender. Whoever publishes or causes to be published, in any format, the 
name, address, telephone number, school, or any identifying information of a victim or 
immediate family member of the victim, without consent, shall be penalized under 
existing laws.  
 
The victim, or an immediate family member of the victim, may file an action for damages 
against whoever publishes or causes to be published, in any format, the name, address, 
telephone number, school or any identifying information of a victim or immediate family 
member of the victim, without prior consent.  
 
SECTION 10. Duties and Responsibilities of Government Agencies. 
 
To achieve the policy and objectives of this Act, the duties and responsibilities of the 
implementing agencies are as follows: 
 
A.​
The DSWD, in coordination with the DepEd, other relevant government agencies, 
the private sector, including academic institutions, nongovernment organizations 
(NGOs), and General Parents Teachers Associations (GPTA) shall formulate a 
comprehensive program to promote the positive and nonviolent discipline of 
children and the prevention of the use of physical, humiliating, or degrading acts 
as a form of punishment of children. The program shall include capacity building of 
service providers, content development of reading materials and other promotional 
items, parenting education on positive and nonviolent discipline of children, 
 


 
child-friendly reporting mechanisms, child protection and support services, and 
documentation, data management and monitoring systems. 
 
B.​
The DSWD shall integrate positive and nonviolent discipline of children in the 
training of officials and staff of child-caring institutions. It shall ensure that officials 
and staff institutions do not use physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of 
punishment of children under their custody. It shall also ensure that appropriate 
action is taken against erring officials and staff of the institutions. 
 
C.​
The DSWD shall integrate positive and nonviolent discipline in the capacity- 
building activities for the Local Social Welfare Development Office (LSWDO) to 
enable them to provide counseling and appropriate intervention programs for both 
offended child and offender. 
 
D.​
All LSWDOs shall adopt and implement programs and services to promote the 
positive and nonviolent discipline of a child and the prevention of the use of 
physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of punishment of a child. They 
shall also provide assistance to victims of physical, humiliating or degrading acts 
as a form of punishment and their families. It shall, together with the DSWD and 
the local government units (LGUs), ensure the delivery of intervention programs 
such as seminars and counseling for offenders. 
 
E.​
The LSWDO shall immediately conduct an assessment of every reported instance 
of physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of punishment of a child, and 
determine the appropriate interventions, considering the best interest of the 
children at all times. The assessment shall be completed within three (3) calendar 
days from the report of the incident, without prejudice to the conduct of a more 
comprehensive case study report. The interventions may include psychosocial 
interventions for the children and their families, protective custody by the social 
worker, temporary placement, medical, counseling and legal services for a child, 
and for the offenders, counseling and seminar on children's rights, positive and 
nonviolent discipline of children, anger management, mental, psychological or 
psychiatric services, and referrals to other rehabilitative services. The assessment 
shall be conducted and interventions shall be provided by the LSWDO whether or 
not a criminal case is filed. 
 
F.​
The Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) shall disseminate all relevant 
information of this Act among concerned government agencies and entities. It shall 
monitor the enforcement and the implementation of all programs and services 
provided for under this Act. It shall also mobilize the different inter-agency 
mechanisms within its national and local structures to support the implementation 
of programs and services. It shall, together with the Philippine Information Agency, 
devise and implement an information campaign or program for popularizing the 
use of positive and nonviolent discipline of children nationwide. 
 
G.​
The DepEd shall integrate positive and nonviolent discipline of children in the 
 


 
training of school officials, teachers and personnel. It shall ensure that school 
officials, teachers and personnel do not use physical, humiliating or degrading acts 
as a form of punishment on any pupil or student. The DepEd shall also integrate 
discussions on positive and nonviolent discipline in the relevant subjects in the 
curriculum of students. The rights of the child shall also be discussed along with 
their responsibilities in the home, community, and school. It shall likewise 
strengthen its Values Education in the K-12 curriculum to instill obedience, 
courtesy and open communication to help foster parent-child relationships.  
 
H.​
The Early Childhood Care and Development Council (ECCDC) shall develop an 
appropriate approach on positive and nonviolent disciplining of children 0-4 years 
old in child development centers. It shall integrate positive and nonviolent 
discipline of children in the training of child development workers and personnel of 
the child development centers. (i) The DILG shall mandate the LGUs to strengthen 
and support local structures involved in the protection of a child. It shall, together 
with the DSWD and the LSWDO, encourage parents and individuals who are not 
married but exercise parental authority to participate in training, seminars or 
counseling on positive and nonviolent discipline, and child's rights, and ensure the 
delivery of intervention programs for offenders. In accordance with Section 7 of 
this Act, the DILG shall cause the printing and distribution to barangays of reading 
materials on positive and nonviolent discipline. 
 
I.​
The CHED and the TESDA shall integrate positive and nonviolent discipline of 
children in the curricula of education, psychology, social work, and other 
disciplines. They shall also ensure that appropriate training on positive and 
nonviolent discipline is provided 8 for school officials, teachers and other 
non-teaching personnel. 
 
J.​
The LGUs shall mobilize, strengthen and support local structures, such as the 
Local Councils for the Protection of Children (LCPC), local special bodies, Lupong 
Tagapamayapa, and children's welfare and protection organizations in facilitating 
the reporting and prevention of, and response to instances of physical, humiliating 
or degrading acts as a form of punishment and promotion of positive and 
nonviolent discipline in their respective localities. It shall, together with the DSWD 
and the LSWDO, ensure the delivery of intervention programs such as seminars 
and counseling for offenders.  
 
K.​
The LCPC shall support programs that promote the positive and nonviolent 
discipline of children, prevent the use of physical, humiliating or degrading acts as 
a form of punishment of children, and coordinate with the LSWDO in responding to 
such cases. 
 
L.​
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) shall make the attendance of 
employers to positive and nonviolent discipline trainings as a prerequisite to the 
issuance of employment permits for children. (n) The DOH shall integrate early 
child development interventions in the various health and nutrition programs and 
 


 
services with emphasis on family-child interaction during well—and—sick child 
visits. It shall also provide technical assistance to LGUs, through the DOH 
Regional Offices, to enhance the capabilities of local health offices in the 
implementation of early child development interventions, including the promotion 
of age appropriate parent-child interactions to foster understanding of the child's 
behavior and needs.  
 
M.​
The PNP shall promote positive and nonviolent ways of treating and handling 
children in conflict with the law. It shall ensure that officials and staff do not use 
physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of punishment to a child under 
their custody. It shall integrate into their training curriculum the training of all police 
officers on child-friendly and child-sensitive procedures in handling children, and 
coordinate closely with government and private organizations for effective 
investigation of cases. 
 
N.​
The Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) shall include in its programs the prevention of 
physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of punishment of children. 
 
O.​
The DSWD shall seek assistance from other relevant government agencies such 
as the DOJ, Commission on Human Rights (CHR), Philippine Information Agency 
(PIA), andthe National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to perform 
specific duties for the implementation of this Act. 
 
P.​
School administrators and teachers exercise special parental authority over their 
students while under their supervision, instruction and custody. As such, guidelines 
to be produced by DepEd shall recognize their authority in the schools and in 
school-sanctioned events, and the need to conduct their classes in an organized 
manner that is conducive to learning. Thus, teachers have the authority to ensure 
that their students behave, respond and treat their teachers and classmates in a 
respectful manner. They have the right to call out disorderly or disrespectful 
behavior and deal with the same consistent with the law and the guidelines to be 
implemented.  The DepEd and ECCDC shall, within six (6) months from the 
effectivity of this Act, in consultation with students' organizations, GPTA, and 
teachers' unions, draft Guidelines on 15 the implementation of positive and 
nonviolent discipline in school settings consistent with this 16 Act and its 
Implementation Rules and Regulations (IRR).  Positive and nonviolent discipline 
actions imposed in accordance with the said Guidelines shall not be considered as 
physical, humiliating or degrading acts under Section 3 (g) of this Act. 
 
Q.​
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) shall ensure sufficient number 
of guidance counselors who will serve as support personnel in implementing 
positive and nonviolent discipline of students. For purposes of this Act, the DBM 
shall, in accordance with Republic Act No. 11036, otherwise known as the "Mental 
Health Act", endeavor to meet the recommended ratio of one (1) guidance 
counselor for every two hundred (200) students in public elementary and high 
schools.  
 


 
 
SECTION 11. Appropriations. 
 
The amount necessary for the initial implementation of this Act shall be charged against 
the current appropriations of the concerned agencies. Thereafter, the amount needed 
for the continued implementation of this Act shall be included in the annual General 
Appropriations Act. For LGUs, the implementation of the programs may be charged 
against the internal revenue allotment and other internally generated funds of the LGU 
concerned.  
 
SECTION 12. Periodic Review. 
 
The DSWD with the DepEd, the TESDA, the CHED, the DILG, the DOJ, the DOH, and 
other relevant government agencies, LGUs, and civil society organizations (CSOs) 
shall, after three (3) years upon effectivity of this Act, and every five (5) years thereafter, 
conduct a periodic review and evaluate the implementation of this Act and submit its 
report and recommendations to the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family 
Relations and Gender Equality and the House of Representatives' Committee on the 
Welfare of Children.  
 
SECTION 13. Implementing Rules and Regulations.  
 
The DSWD Secretary, in coordination with the Executive Director of the CWC and in 
consultation with the DepEd, CHED, TESDA, DILG, DOH, other relevant government 
agencies, LGUs, NGOs, teacher's union and at least two (2) child focused 
organizations, shall promulgate the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of this Act 
within six (6) months from its approval. They shall likewise ensure that techniques in, 
and examples of, practicing positive and nonviolent discipline shall be extensively 
enumerated, described and explained in the IRR. 
  
SECTION 14. Suppletory Application. 
 
For purposes of this Act, the Revised Penal Code, as amended; the Child and Youth 
Welfare Code, as amended; Republic Act No. 7610, as amended, and other applicable 
laws shall have suppletory application.  
 
SECTION 15. Separability Clause. 
 
If any section or provision of this Act is held unconstitutional or invalid, the other 
sections or provisions shall not be affected. 
 
SECTION 16. Repealing Clause.  
 
All laws, presidential decrees, executive orders and rules and regulations or parts 
thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are 17 hereby repealed or modified 
accordingly.  
 


 
 
SECTION 17. Effectivity. 
 
This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in 
a newspaper of general circulation.  
 
Approved,