B.P. Blg. 22, Otherwise Known As The Bouncing Checks LAW

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A. M. No.

00-11-01-SC
RE: AMENDMENT TO THE RULE ON SUMMARY PROCEDURE OF
CRIMINAL CASES TO INCLUDE WITHIN ITS COVERAGE VIOLATIONS
OF B.P. BLG. 22, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOUNCING CHECKS
LAW
RESOLUTION
Acting on the recommendation of the Chairman of the Committee on
Revision of the Rules of Court submitting for this Courts consideration and
approval the Proposed Amendment To The Rule On Summary Procedure Of
Criminal Cases To Include Within its Coverage Violations of B.P. Big. 22,
Otherwise Known As The Bouncing Checks Law, the Court Resolved to
APPROVE the same.
The amendment shall take effect on April 15, 2003 following its
publication in a newspaper of general circulation not later than March 30,
2003.
March 25, 2003.

AMENDMENT TO THE RULE ON SUMMARY PROCEDURE OF


CRIMINAL CASES TO INCLUDE WITHIN ITS COVERAGE VIOLATIONS
OF B.P. BLG. 22, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOUNCING CHECKS
LAW
Section 1 of the Revised Rule on Summary Procedure (Resolution of
the Court En Banc dated October 15, 1991), is amended as follows:
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Section 1. Scope. This rule shall govern the summary procedure in


Metropolitan Trial Courts, the Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal Trial
Courts, and the Municipal Circuit Trial Courts in the following cases falling
within their jurisdiction.
A.
Civil Cases:
xxx
B.
Criminal Cases:
xxx
4. Violations of Batas Pambansa Bilang 22 (Bouncing Checks Law);
5. All other criminal cases where the penalty prescribed by law for the
offense charged is imprisonment not exceeding six months, or a fine not
exceeding one thousand pesos (P1,000.00), or both, irrespective of other
imposable penalties, accessory or otherwise, or of the civil liability arising
therefrom: Provided, however, that in offenses involving damage to property
through criminal negligence, this Rule shall govern where the imposable fine
does not exceed ten thousand pesos (P10,000.00).
This Rule shall not apply to a civil case where the plaintiffs cause of
action is pleaded in the same complaint with another cause of action subject
to the ordinary procedure; nor to a criminal case where the offense charged
is necessarily related to another criminal case subject to ordinary
procedure.
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