Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Constitution Hills, Quezon City 
TWENTIETH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session  
House Bill No. 1827 
________________________________________________________________ 
Introduced by: REPRESENTATIVE ERIC L. OLIVAREZ 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Section 13, Article II of the Constitution, on the Declaration of 
Principles and State Policies, provides: "The State recognizes the 
vital role of the youth in nation-building and shall promote and 
protect their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, and social well-
being.  xxxxx”.  Thus, from their infancy and in their formative 
years and throughout their childhood, children should be provided 
sufficient protection by the State from all forms of abuse, 
exploitation, neglect and discrimination and any potential crime 
that would endanger them should be prevented by the State. In 
further complementing the protection of children, it is also stated 
in Section 3, Article XV of the Constitution: “The State shall 
defend: xxxxx (2) The right of children 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;” xxxxx and “(4) The right of 
families or family associations to participate in the planning and 
implementation of policies and programs that affect them.”  
This legislative measure is precisely intended for the 
protection of children from all other conditions prejudicial to their 
development, among which is the potential danger posed by foreign 
sex predators in conflict with child-oriented laws, and by indicted 
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or convicted sex offenders, who enter Philippine territorial 
jurisdiction and reside within our local communities. 
 
Pursuant to Sec. 29 of Commonwealth Act 613, there is an 
enumeration of the classes of alien that are specifically excluded 
from entry into the Philippines. Unfortunately, the excluded classes 
of aliens do not accommodate the categories of aliens that are 
specifically targeted under this proposed bill.  Under the said law, 
the mandate of allowing the ingress of aliens into the country is 
jointly enforced by the Department of Foreign Affairs through the 
issuance of entry visas and by the Bureau of Immigration through 
the approval and allowance of entry documents, the power of which 
is to deny the issuance of visas and the power to deny the entry of 
the foreigner into the country.  
 
Also, pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 830 dated 
November 27, 1975 and Letter of Implementation No. 47 dated 
August 18, 1976 in relation to Book IV, Title III, Chapter 10, Sec. 
31 of the Administrative Code of 1987 (E.O. 292), the power and 
authority to deport undesirable aliens is within the exclusive 
jurisdiction of the Immigration Board of Commissioners presided 
over by the Commissioner of Immigration. Furthermore, Book III, 
Title I, Chapter 1, Section 1, of E.O. 292, the Commissioner of the 
Bureau of Immigration possesses the administrative authority to 
deport undesirable aliens who are in violation of immigration laws, 
rules and regulations is concerned.  It becomes peremptory, 
therefore, to establish new administrative procedures that will 
enable the Commissioner of Immigration to promptly address the 
issue of undesirable aliens who, because of their well-established 
nefarious activities in the Philippines, pose a clear and present 
danger to public safety, public health, and national interests in 
accordance with the proposed bill. 
 
Our present system does not treat the prohibition of ingress 
of, and travel by, foreign citizens within our country as a priority 
concern over the protection of our own citizens and children.  
Thus, there is a moral and legal necessity to prevent any further 
humiliation to the foreign national who has derogatory criminal, 
civil and administrative record on any sexual misconduct involving 


minors, as well as the equally moral and legal necessity to protect 
minors under the jurisdiction of the Philippines. Such should 
warrant legal grounds to prevent the issuance of passport visa 
documents and his entry altogether or even when issued passport 
visa documents, to prevent the ingress of such foreign citizen into 
the country.  
 
Hence, the immediate passage of this bill is earnestly sought. 
 
 
 
ERIC L. OLIVAREZ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Constitution Hills, Quezon City 
TWENTIETH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session  
House Bill No. 1827 
________________________________________________________________ 
Introduced by: REPRESENTATIVE ERIC L. OLIVAREZ 
“AN ACT PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CHILD SEXUAL 
EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE, CHILD TRAFFICKING, CHILD 
PORNOGRAPHY, AND VIOLENT CRIME ON CHILDREN BY 
PROHIBITING THE INGRESS OF FOREIGN SEX OFFENDERS 
AND ALIENS IN CONFLICT WITH CHILD PROTECTION LAWS; 
PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR NON-COMPLIANCE THEREWITH; 
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER 
PURPOSES” 
ART. I – TITLE, STATEMENT OF POLICY, AND DEFINITION OF 
TERMS 
Section 1. Title. - This Act shall be known as the Ingress 
Prohibition of Alien Sex Offenders of Children Act (IPASOCA). 
Section 2. Statement of Policy. - It is hereby declared the policy 
and obligation of the State to ensure that sex-related and specified 
offenses against minors with a sexual complexion are eliminated 
through effective legislations and policies on the prohibition of 
ingress into the country of alien nationals with pending 
investigations, cases, indictments, or convictions regarding such 
offenses to prevent future sex-related crimes against minors.  The 


paramount consideration, in all such cases, is the best interests of 
the children concerned.  
Section 3. Objectives. - The purposes and objectives of this Act are: 
a)
To 
better 
serve and safeguard public 
interest, more
particularly the interests of children, by prohibiting the issuance of
passport visa documents and /or the ingress of child-sex offenders,
whether undergoing law enforcement or prosecutorial investigation
or judicial trial;
b)
To engage the consulates, embassies or foreign affairs
divisions 
of 
other 
States 
in 
inter-State 
and 
inter-agency
cooperation and coordination in utilizing their respective national
database and providing relevant information and data therein
towards the prohibition of such child-sex offenders from ingress
into the Philippines and vice versa.
c)
To establish new operational rules and guidelines for the
Consular Offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the
Bureau of Immigration in the interest of Public Safety, Public
Health and/or National Interests; and
d)
To encourage the protection of children and society by
instituting gatekeeping mechanisms at the Department of Foreign
Affairs and the Bureau of Immigration in checking the background
and 
derogatory 
criminal 
records 
through 
shared 
relevant
information and data on child-sex offenders and preventing their
ingress.
Section 4. Definition of Terms. - As used in this Act, the terms: 
a)
The term "Philippines" means all the territory and waters
which are subject to the jurisdiction of the Government of the
Philippines, including places wherein the Philippines exercises
extra-territorial jurisdiction;


b) 
The term “Child'' or “Minor” means an individual who has not 
attained the age of eighteen (18) years;  
 
c) 
The term "alien" means any person not a citizen of the 
Philippines; 
 
d) 
The term “Sex offense” means a criminal, civil, or 
administrative offense that has an element involving a sexual act, 
sexual contact, sexually related or sexually-oriented act with a 
minor, for which an alien is being investigated or has been 
convicted, and which may have an equivalent offense under the 
Revised Penal Code or under special laws of the Philippines; 
 
e) 
The term “sex offender” (“SO”) means any alien, who has 
been convicted under any national, state or domestic law, whether 
in his country or otherwise, of any crime involving any sex-related 
offense or any specified offense of a sexual nature or complexion 
involving children;  
 
f) 
The term “alien in conflict with child protection laws” 
(“AICPL”) means any alien, who has a pending case, whether 
administrative, civil, or criminal in complexion, before any police, 
prosecutorial, quasi-judicial or judicial authorities, involving any 
sex-related offense or any specified offense of a sexual nature or 
complexion involving children;  
 
g) 
The term "immigrant" means any alien departing from any 
place outside the Philippines destined for the Philippines, other 
than a non-immigrant;  
 
h) 
The term "immigration laws" shall refer to the Immigration 
Act and any other law hereafter enacted relating to the entry of 
aliens into the Philippines, and their exclusion, deportation, and 
repatriation therefrom; 
 
i) 
The words "the President" refers to the President of the 
Philippines. 
 
 


ART II. COVERAGE OF ALIENS EXCLUDED FROM INGRESS 
 
 
Section 5. EXCLUDED ALIENS. – The following foreign nationals or 
aliens may be excluded from any form of travel, visit, entry or 
passage through the Philippines or any area within which the 
Philippines exercises jurisdiction: 
 
a) 
Any alien who has committed, or participated in the 
commission of, any violation of national, state or domestic law, 
whether in his/her state of citizenship or in any state or territorial 
jurisdiction outside the Philippines, related to any sex offense, sex-
related offense, or any specified offense presumably of a sexual 
nature or complexion involving children; 
 
b) 
Any alien who has committed any offense by reason of 
his/her omission of an obligation to protect or rescue a minor in 
violation of any national, state or domestic law, related to any sex 
offense, sex-related offense, or any specified offense presumably of 
a sexual nature or complexion involving children, whether in his 
state of citizenship or any state or territorial jurisdiction outside 
the Philippines; 
 
c) 
Any alien,  who is in conflict with the law, whether it is in the 
law of the state of his citizenship or in any other state or territorial 
jurisdiction outside the Philippines, if he has a pending case, 
whether administrative, civil, or criminal in complexion, before any 
police, prosecutorial, quasi-judicial or judicial authorities, related 
to any sex offense, sex-related offense or any specified offense of a 
sexual nature or complexion involving children; 
 
d) 
Any alien,  who is in conflict with the law, more particularly 
for violations of law or for acts in other states or territorial 
jurisdictions, which would constitute criminal offenses in the 
Philippines if it had been committed in the Philippines, e.g. for 
violations of any law outside the Philippines which may constitute 
violations of The Child and Youth Welfare Code (PD 603 as 
amended by EO 91); the Code of Muslim Personal Laws (PD 1083); 
the Family Code; the Special Protection for Children Against Child 


Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act (RA 7610); the law on 
the prohibition of Child Labor (RA 7658); the Death Penalty Act (RA 
7659 as amended); the Inter-Country Adoption Act of 1995 (RA 
8043);  the Domestic Adoption Act of 1998 (RA 8552); the Anti-
Rape Law of 1997 (RA 8353); the law on the prohibition of 
Hazardous Child Labor (RA 9231); the Anti-Violence Against 
Women and their Children Act (RA 9262); the Anti-Trafficking in 
Persons Act (RA 9208 as amended by RA 10364); the Anti-Child 
Pornography Act (RA 9775); The Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism 
Act (RA 9995); for violations of related provisions of the Revised 
Penal Code; for violations of related international criminal laws; 
and for violations of such other related and/or subsequent laws 
which cover criminal acts involving sex offenses, sex-related 
offenses, and specified offenses against minors. 
 
e) 
Any alien whose name is included in the Sex Offenders 
Registry, Watchlist or Lookout Bulletin for any sex offense, or any 
such similar data base, of any country outside the Philippines.  
 
 
Section 6. Alien Minors Accused of Sex Offenses. – All alien 
minors, 15 years old and above, being investigated for, indicted, or 
convicted for sex offenses under this Act shall not be exempt from 
coverage hereunder.  
 
Section 7. Diplomats are not exempt from provisions herein.  – 
No diplomat, ambassador, consular officer, or official representing 
the country or State or the United Nations or any of their offices, 
branches, or organizational structures to which he/she belongs 
shall be exempt from coverage hereunder. 
 
Section 8. Consensual Sexual Conduct. - An offense involving 
consensual sexual conduct is not a sex offense for the purposes of 
this Act if the victim was an adult; unless the victim was a child at 
the time of the commission of the offense. 
 
 
 


ART. III. - POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT 
OFFICES: 
 
 
Section 9. General Functions of Related Government Offices.  -  
The Department of Foreign Affairs or Bureau of Immigration, 
whether through its Secretary or Commissioner, or through the 
office, agency or committee they authorize, shall have the following 
additional functions:  
 
1) 
Promulgate rules and regulations, as well as Department 
and/or Administrative Orders, Memorandum Circulars, and all 
such inter-Department and intra-Department Instructions and 
Orders, including occasional amendments thereof, as may be 
necessary for the effective implementation of this Act; 
 
2) 
Promulgate within its rules and regulations, including 
occasional amendments thereof, a detailed list, enumeration, and 
registration of all sex offenders, and all aliens in conflict with the 
law under this Act, and the counterpart sex offenses and specified 
offenses against minors for which they are or have been held 
accountable; 
 
3) 
Promulgate 
an 
enumeration 
of 
various 
child-oriented 
protective legislations of various countries in which their citizens or 
permanent residents seek entry into the Philippines, which have 
equivalent coverage under Philippine legislations, among which 
should be specific provisions of the Revised Penal Code, special 
laws, and subsequent laws thereto;  
 
4) 
Monitor and oversee the strict implementation of this Act 
within their agency or office jurisdiction; 
 
5) 
Coordinate the programs, projects, rules and regulations, 
including all possible Administrative or Department Orders and 
circulars of the various member agencies to effectively address the 
issues and problems attendant to the registration of sex offenders 
and notification to those concerned;  
 


6) 
Secure from any department, bureau, office, agency or 
instrumentality of the government or from non-governmental 
organizations (NGOs) and other civic organizations such assistance 
as may be needed to effectively implement this Act; 
 
7) 
Formulate a shared governmental and inter-governmental 
information system, including the Interpol, for the notification of 
the concerned states and other jurisdictions regarding convicted 
sex offenders and aliens in conflict with the law under this Act, and 
their mandatory registration under immigration laws, as well as to 
ensure 
that 
the 
proper 
immigration 
agencies 
and 
their 
international counterparts conduct a continuing research and 
study on the patterns and scheme of registration of, and dealing 
with, sex offenders and aliens in conflict with the law, which shall 
form the basis for policy formulation  and program direction;  
 
8) 
Formulate a “blacklist” registration for aliens under the 
coverage of this Act, who have been excluded from being issued a 
visa, or from ingress into the country; 
 
9) 
Develop the mechanisms to ensure the timely, coordinated, 
and effective response to the cases of registration of sex offenders, 
notification and the failure thereof; 
 
10) Recommend measures and undertake joint activities to 
enhance cooperative efforts and mutual assistance among foreign 
countries through bilateral and/or multilateral arrangements to 
promote the registration of sex offenders and their notification to 
persons concerned; 
 
11) Adopt measures and policies to protect the rights and needs 
of children who are foreign nationals in the Philippines and foreign 
NGOs caring for and protecting children; 
 
12) Initiate training programs in identifying and providing the 
necessary measures for intervention or assistance to victims or 
NGOs protecting child victims of sex offenders; and 
 


13) Exercise all the powers and perform such other functions 
necessary to attain the purposes and objectives of this Act. 
 
Section 10. No Familial Reintegration. – No alien sex offender or 
alien in conflict with the law in accordance herewith, who is being 
investigated, who has been indicted, or who has been convicted or 
of any criminal, civil, or administrative offense in accordance with 
the excluded aliens, whether in his State of citizenship, permanent 
residence, or any other territorial jurisdiction, may demand ingress 
into the Philippines by virtue of his being a parent, stepparent, 
adoptive parent, foster parent of a Filipino child or being a common 
law spouse of a Filipino child’s parent, cohabitant or sex partner of 
the Filipino child’s parent.  He shall be prohibited from ingress into 
the Philippines. 
 
A Regional Trial Court shall not issue any such order for family 
reintegration or for custody of children for any sex offense or 
specified offense against a minor that may have been committed by 
the aforementioned aliens.   
 
 
A) POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CONSULAR OFFICERS 
B) FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: 
 
 
Section 11. Visa Issuances Governed by Regulations. - The form 
and manner of applying for an immigration visa by a non-citizen, 
whether for temporary visits, multiple entries or permanent 
residence, and the form and validity of such immigration visa shall 
be established by regulations to be validly issued by the 
Department of Foreign Affairs. 
 
Section 12. Powers of a Consular Officer. - The examination of 
aliens concerning their applications for visa and travel documents 
to enter or reside in the Philippines shall be performed by Consular 
Officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs.  
 


Consular Officers are also empowered to administer oaths, to take 
and consider evidence concerning the application of any alien to 
enter or reside in the Philippines.  
  
In view thereof, consular officers are authorized to exclude any 
alien not properly documented, any “undesirable alien” under the 
coverage of the Immigration Act, and/or aliens hereby specifically 
excluded as required by this Act and to assist in the enforcement of 
immigration laws and regulations prescribed thereunder. 
 
Section 13. Power to require further documentation and 
clearances. - Consular Officers may require clearance certificates 
or any other necessary legal and/or judicial document before 
issuing any valid travel documentation or visas to alien applicants 
wishing to enter and/or reside in the Philippines, when informed or 
apprised of any pending or terminated case, whether criminal, civil, 
or administrative in nature, from the appropriate authorities of the 
country of citizenship or residence or any other foreign territorial 
jurisdiction, where the alien was indicted, convicted, or may have 
been held accountable for any sexual act, or sex-related or sex-
oriented criminal, civil, or administrative offense committed against 
children or minors.  
 
Section 14. Power to deny passport visa and/or other travel 
documents. – A consular officer may reject or deny the issuance of 
a passport visa and/or other travel documents to an applicant who 
fails to establish satisfactorily his status as an alien without any 
conflict to any child-oriented protection legislation, or whose entry 
into the Philippines would not be contrary to the public safety, 
more particularly the safety of children under coverage of this Act. 
 
Section 15. Power to deny passport visa and/or other travel 
documents on reasonable belief. - No immigration visa shall be 
issued to an immigrant alien if the consular officer knows from 
statements in the application therefor, from the papers submitted 
therewith, or otherwise has reason to believe that said alien is 
inadmissible 
under 
immigration 
laws.   
 


Section 16. Additional Authority to Issue Prohibition Orders 
for Ingress of Suspected and Convicted Sex Offenders and 
Aliens in Conflict with the Law. — The Consular Officer, upon a 
well-founded and reasonable determination based on available and 
verifiable civilian, immigration, or military intelligence reports, is 
hereby authorized to order the prohibition of the ingress or entry of 
any such alien sex offender or alien in conflict with child protection 
laws into the Philippines or any place where the Department of 
Foreign Affairs exercises its functions and jurisdiction so as to 
guarantee the safety of children under the coverage of this Act. 
 
Section 17. Authority to Cancel Visa. - An immigration visa, or a 
passport visa, or a reentry Permit, obtained by fraud or willful 
misrepresentation of fact concerning violations of law under this 
Act shall be subject to cancellation by the issuing officer or by the 
Board 
of 
Commissioners.  
   
Section 18. Submission of Reports to the President. — The 
Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs shall furnish the 
Office of the President a quarterly report every year of excluded 
aliens with their names, aliases, nationalities and the specific 
grounds for their deportation under this Act.  In compliance 
therewith, the DFA Secretary may call upon, and require, the 
Consular Officers for any such necessary reports and documents 
therewith. 
 
Section 19. Administrative Accountability of the Officials of 
the Department of Foreign Affairs. – Officials from the 
Department of Foreign Affairs and its consular officers, who 
violates this Act by issuing a passport visa and/or any other travel 
document that enables an excluded alien to enter Philippine 
jurisdiction, shall be held administratively liable with the pertinent 
penalty for Grave Misconduct under Civil Service Laws and/or 
under the laws being enforced by the Office of the Ombudsman.  
 
Any such official(s) shall also be held criminally liable for violation 
herewith for a one (1) to two (2) years penalty of imprisonment, or a 
fine of Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (P 500,000.00).  
 


 
A) POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF IMMIGRATION OFFICERS FROM 
THE BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION: 
 
 
Section 20. Powers of Immigration Officer. - The examination of 
aliens concerning their right to enter or remain in the Philippines 
shall be performed by Immigration Inspectors. 
 
Immigration Inspectors are authorized to exclude any alien not 
properly documented or cleared as required by this Act, and to 
enforce 
the 
immigration 
laws 
and 
regulations 
prescribed 
thereunder. 
  
Immigration Inspectors are also empowered to administer oaths, to 
take and consider evidence concerning the right of any alien to 
enter or reside in the Philippines, and to go aboard and search for 
aliens on any vessel or other conveyance in which they believe 
aliens are being brought into the Philippines. Immigrantion 
Inspectors shall have the power to arrest, without warrant, any 
alien who in their presence or view is entering or is still in the 
course of entering the Philippines in violation of this Act, other 
child-related laws or regulations prescribed thereunder. 
 
Section 21. Authority to Issue Prohibition Orders for Ingress of 
Suspected and Convicted Sex Offenders and Aliens in Conflict 
with the Law. — The Bureau of Immigration, upon a well-founded 
and reasonable determination by the Commissioner of Immigration 
or any of his assigned assistants, deputies or officers, based on 
available 
and 
verifiable 
civilian, 
immigration, 
or 
military 
intelligence reports, is hereby authorized to prohibit the ingress or 
entry of any such alien into the Philippines or any place where the 
Bureau of Immigration exercises its functions and jurisdiction so 
as to guarantee the safety of children under this Act.  
 
Section 22.  Prohibition of alien sex offenders and aliens in 
conflict with the law. - Sex offenders with foreign conviction, or 
other foreign nationals facing investigation and/or charges for a 
sex offense or any specified offense against a minor, based on 


information provided by a foreign embassy or a legally recognized 
international entity or on authentic documents or official web 
information, shall be prohibited from ingress by the Bureau of 
Immigration and will be issued an order to leave if already admitted 
into the country.   
 
Section 23. Authority to Issue Summary Deportation Orders. – 
The Bureau of Immigration, through its Commissioner and/or 
Associate Commissioner(s), or in their absence, the Acting 
Commissioner of Immigration, is hereby authorized to issue and 
effect a Summary Deportation Order, if probable cause exists, if 
any of the aliens enumerated under Section 5 hereof has been able 
to obtain ingress into the Philippines or any of its areas of 
territorial or extra-territorial jurisdiction, or is under a state of 
arrest 
within 
any 
Philippine 
territorial 
or 
extra-territorial 
jurisdiction.   Said foreign national shall be ordered to leave 
immediately and his visa and travel documents cancelled, with his 
name included in the Bureau of Immigration blacklist registry.  
 
Section 24.  No Motion for Reconsideration from Summary 
Deportation Orders. - If so admitted into the country already, a 
foreign national who has been issued a Summary Deportation 
Order may not file a Motion for Reconsideration therefrom.   
 
Section 25.  Authority to Effect a Warrantless Arrest. – Under 
the circumstances stated in the next preceding section, the Bureau 
of 
Immigration, 
through 
its 
Chairman 
or 
Associate 
Commissioner(s), or in their absence, the Acting Commissioner of 
Immigration, is hereby authorized to effect a warrantless arrest of 
any such aliens enumerated under Section 5 hereof if probable 
cause exists, or if there is any legal or valid request from any State 
with diplomatic relations with the Philippines for the arrest of such 
alien or aliens in accordance with Section 5, Rule 113 of the Rules 
of Court or if such alien is found in flagrante delicto violating 
Philippine Immigration laws. 
 
Section 26. Authority to Issue Mission Orders for Verification 
and Investigation of Suspected Illegal Aliens. – In the cases of 
aliens who have obtained admission or ingress into the country, 


the Bureau of Immigration, through its Chairman or Associate 
Commissioners, or in their absence, the Acting Commissioner of 
Immigration, is hereby authorized, in the interest of national 
security, public health, public safety and/or national interests, to 
issue a mission order directing appropriate officers of the Bureau of 
Immigration, whether organic or on detail, to conduct verification 
and investigation operations against the alien or aliens concerned. 
 
Section 27. Submission of Reports to the President. — The 
Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration shall furnish the Office 
of the President an annual report of excluded and deported aliens 
with their names, aliases, nationalities and the specific grounds for 
their deportation, with a duplicate original copy of subject report(s) 
furnished the Secretary of Justice. 
 
Section 28. Administrative Accountability of Criminal Justice 
Officials. – Officials from the Department of Justice, Bureau of 
Immigration and its immigration officers who violate this Act by 
allowing the ingress of an excluded alien shall be held 
administratively liable with the pertinent penalty for Grave 
Misconduct under Civil Service Laws and/or under the laws being 
enforced by the Office of the Ombudsman.   
 
Any such official shall also be held criminally liable with a penalty 
of three (3) years of imprisonment, or a fine of Five Hundred 
Thousand Pesos (P500,000.00) or both at the discretion of the 
court. 
 
Section 29. Administrative Accountability of Bureau of 
Immigration Official. -  The Bureau of Immigration official(s), 
who allows the ingress of such sex offender or any such person as 
stated in the preceding provision despite prior notice of a foreign 
conviction or receipt of information on the investigation and/or 
charges for a sex offense or any specified offense against a minor, 
shall be held administratively liable with the pertinent penalty for 
Grave Misconduct under Civil Service Laws and/or under the laws 
being enforced by the Office of the Ombudsman. 
 


 
C) AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 
AND/OR BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION FOR REQUIRED 
DOCUMENTATION: 
 
 
Section 30. Information Required from an Indictment as a Sex 
Offender. - An alien accused or investigated for any of the 
aforementioned 
offenses herein shall provide the following 
information to the Department of Foreign Affairs or Bureau of 
Immigration  for registration purposes: 
 
A) His legal name and any other names or aliases that he is using 
or has used; 
 
B) His Social Security Number or Unified Multi-Purpose ID 
Common Reference Number, if applicable; 
 
C) His passport identification and number; 
 
D) His date of birth; 
 
E) His current address, the address where he will reside, the 
address(es) where he wishes to establish permanent residence(s) or 
temporary domicile, in which he resides for more than twenty days 
successive or segregated within a whole year; 
 
F) The name and place of his current employment or where he will 
be an employee, if applicable; 
 
G) The name and address of the educational institution where he is 
a student or will be a student, if applicable; 
 
H) The Motor vehicle registration information and vehicle 
description for all motor vehicles that the sex offender owns, 
operates, or drives or will own, operate, or drive, if applicable; and 
 
I) The date and place of his indictment for, and nature of, the sex 
offense or specified offense against a minor. 


 
Section 31. Other Required Registry Information. - The 
Department of Foreign Affairs and/or Bureau of Immigration   shall 
ensure that the following information is also included in their 
registry for subject alien herein: 
 
A) The current photograph of the indicted person; 
 
B) His/her physical description, including a description of any 
tattoos, scars or other distinguishing features on his/her body that 
would assist in future identification; 
 
C) His/her photocopy of the valid driver's license or identification 
card/s;  
 
D) His/her photocopy of the latest valid passport;  
 
E) His/her DNA sample, if available; 
 
F) The nature of and date of commission of the alleged offense by 
the indicted person, including the text of the provision of law 
defining the criminal offense for which he/she is registered; and 
 
G) His/her criminal history, including the date of all arrests and 
convictions.  
 
All information shall be updated by the DFA/BI upon receipt of 
new valid information.  
 
Section 32. Exempt Information. - The following information shall 
be exempt from public disclosure:  
 
1) The identity of any victim of a sex offense; 
 
2) The Social Security Number or Unified Multi-Purpose ID 
Common Reference Number of the suspected or convicted sex 
offender; 
 


3) Any reference to arrests of the suspected or indicted sex offender 
that did not result in conviction; 
 
(4) Any information about a conviction that did not arise from a sex 
offense, except for offenses against minors; 
 
(5) The name of an employer of the suspected or convicted sex 
offender; and 
 
(6) The name of an educational institution where the suspected or 
convicted sex offender is a student. 
 
Section 33. Blacklist Registry. – The Department of Foreign 
Affairs and/or the Bureau of Immigration shall create their own 
database or information registry of aliens who have been excluded 
from the issuance of a visa and/or excluded from ingress into the 
country due cases falling under the coverage of this Act.  All the 
information and documentation under this particular Act shall be 
included in this Blacklist Registry. 
 
 
ARTICLE IV. GENERAL PROVISIONS: 
 
 
Section 34. Good Faith Conduct Immunity. – Any person who, 
without malice or any ill-intent, furnishes any information or 
document regarding any case falling under coverage hereof shall be 
immune from liability for good faith conduct under this Act. 
 
Section 35. Transitory Provision. - As soon as this Act takes 
effect, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Commissioner  of 
the Bureau of Immigration shall have the authority to apply the 
powers herein granted for alien immigrants who have been allowed 
ingress into the country prior to the enactment of this Act. 
 
Section 36.  Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The 
Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Justice in 
coordination 
with 
Bureau 
of 
Immigration 
shall 
issue 
the 
implementing rules and regulations in the immediate enforcement 


of this Act and may issue subsequent guidelines in the 
interpretation and further implementation of this Act.  
 
The Department of Foreign Affairs and the Bureau of Immigration 
shall create a committee and may invite the officers of the various 
Cabinet departments, and government offices and agencies, 
including non-government organizations, for the drafting of 
implementing rules and regulations (IRR). The IRR for the 
implementation of this act shall be promulgated within sixty (60) 
days from the effective passage of this law.  
 
Section 37. Appropriations Clause. – The initial budget of Five 
Million Pesos (P5,000,000.00) for the Department of Affairs and 
another Five Million Pesos (P5,000,000.00) for the Bureau of 
Immigration, for the enforcement of the IPASOCA and its 
operational expenses, establishment of its “blacklist” registry and 
database facilities, and such other necessary expenses thereto 
immediately in the year of its enactment shall be drawn from the 
National Treasury.  Thereafter, the amount necessary to carry out 
the provisions of this Act shall be included in the General 
Appropriations Act of the year immediately following its enactment 
into law and subsequent thereto. 
 
Section 38. General Penal Clause. - A sex offender who fails to 
comply with the registration requirements or provides false 
information shall suffer the penalty of prisión correccional in its 
maximum period. 
 
An informant, who has not acted in good faith, and provides false 
information shall suffer the penalty of arresto mayor in its 
medium period. 
 
Section 39. Separability Clause. - If any part or section of this Act 
shall be declared unconstitutional, such declarations shall not 
invalidate the other provisions hereof.  
 
Section 40. Repealing Clause. - All laws, parts of laws, decrees, 
presidential issuances, proclamations, orders, ordinances, and 


administrative regulations in conflict with the provisions of this Act 
are hereby amended, modified or repealed accordingly. 
 
Section 41. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days 
after its complete publication in at least two (2) newspapers of 
general circulation. 
 
Approved: