Republic Acts of the Philippines

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Republic Acts are laws in the Philippines, created by the Congress and signed by the president.

List of Republic Acts

This is a list of Republic Acts that have been mentioned in Wikipedia.

R.A. No.	Date Passed	What it Did
Pre-Commonwealth
1876	August 18, 1908	Mountain Province was established with Amburayan, Apayao, Benguet, Bontoc, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Lepanto as sub-provinces.
2280	February 21, 1920	Marinduque was reestablished as a separate province.
2711	March 10, 1917	Established most of the modern-day provinces of the Philippines: Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur from Camarines.
3436	November 28, 1928	Established the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) with the bill granting it a 50-year charter.
Post-Commonwealth
14	September 7, 1946	changed the name of the province of Tayabas to Quezon.
333	July 17, 1948	declared Quezon City the capital of the Philippines.
387		Petroleum Act of 1949
537	June 16, 1959	extended the area of Quezon City.
2141	April 8, 1959	made Biliran a sub-province of Leyte.
2786	June 19, 1960	The province of Surigao is split into Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur.
4695	June 18, 1966	formed the provinces of Kalinga-Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, and Mountain Province from the earlier Mountain Province
4979		divided Agusan into Agusan del Norte and Agusan del Sur
6173		Oil Industry Commission Act
6709	February 10, 1989	declares November 5 as a non-working holiday for the province of Negros Occidental to commemorate Cinco de Noviembre, the day Negros became free
6395		Charter of the National Power Corporation
6396	September 17, 1971	made Siquijor an independent province.
6430	June 17, 1972	changed the name of the province of Davao del Norte to Davao.
6734	August 1, 1989	created the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), which was officially inaugurated on November 6, 1990 in Cotabato City.
6766	October 23, 1989	provided for an Organic Act for the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). It mandates the creation of an autonomous government to be headed by a Regional Governor. It creates a Regional Assembly that will enact laws of regional application and a regional judiciary composed of a supreme court and lower courts.
7156		Mini-Hydro Law
7160	May 11, 1992	made Biliran an independent province. Biliran was previously a sub-province of Leyte.
7638		Charter of the Deparment of Energy
7648		Electric Power Crisis Act
7832	December 8, 1994	"Anti-electricity and Electric Transmission Lines/Materials Pilferage Act of 1994" / an act penalizing the pilferage of electricity and theft of power transmission lines/materials, rationalizing system losses by phasing out pilferage losses as a component thereof, and for other purposes
7878	February 14, 1995	divided Kalinga-Apayao into Kalinga and Apayao provinces.
8223	December 8, 1996	converted the municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila into a city.
8438	December 22, 1997	created the Cordillera Autonomous Region. A plebiscite, held on March 9, 1998 to ratify the bill, was held and invalidated the act. See Cordillera Administrative Region.
8470	January 31, 1998	split the province of Davao into two, creating the province of Compostela Valley.
8471	January 31, 1998	created the Island Garden City of Samal in Davao province by combining the municipalities of Samal, Babak, and Kaputian.
8472	January 31, 1998	converted the municipality of Tagum, the capital of Davao, into a city.
8473	January 31, 1998	created the municipality of Braulio E. Dujali, Davao out of several barangays in Panabo and Carmen.
8479	February 10, 1998	"Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998" / an act deregulating the downstream oil industry and for other purposes
8491	February 12, 1998	prescribed the code of the national flag, anthem, motto, coat-of-arms and other heraldic items and devices of the Philippines.
8535	February 23, 1998	provided for the creation of the City of Novaliches comprising the 15 northernmost barangays of Quezon City. However, in the succeeding plebiscite on October 23, 1999, an overwhelming majority of Quezon City residents voted “no” to the bill.
8749	June 23, 1999	"Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999" / An Act Providing for a Comprehensive Air Pollution Control Policy and for Other Purposes
9015	March 5, 2001	converted the municipality of Panabo, Davao into a city.
9136	June 8, 2001	"Electric Power Industry Reforms Act of 2001" / an act ordaining reforms in the electric power industry, amending for the purpose cerain laws and for other purposes

9189	February 13, 2003	"Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003" / an act providing for a system of overseas absentee voting by qualified citizens of the Philippines abroad, appropriating funds therefor, and for other purposes

9225	August 29, 2003	"Citizenship Retention and Re-Acquisition Act of 2003" / an act making the citizenship of Philippine citizens who acquire foreign citizenship permanent, amending for the purpose Commonwealth Act no. 63, as amended, and for other purposes

9334	December 21, 2004	An act increasing the excise tax rates imposed on alcohol and tobacco products, amending for the purpose sections 131, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, and 288 of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, as amended. Also known as the "sin tax" law.

9335	January 25, 2005	"Lateral Attrition Act of 2005" / an act to improve the revenue collection performance of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) through the creation of a rewards and incentives fund and of a revenue performance evaluation board and for other purposes

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