ACT No.

1524
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF CONDITIONS MADE BY THE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN THE EXERCISE OF HIS DISCRETION IN GRANTING
CONDITIONAL PARDONS.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Whenever the Governor-General
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shall, in his discretion, grant a conditional pardon to
any person convicted of crime under the laws of the Philippine Islands, the conditions shall be fully
set forth in the pardon and a copy of the conditional pardon shall in each case be delivered to the
person so pardoned, and also a copy thereof filed in the office of the clerk of the Court of First
Instance of the province or judicial district in which such person was tried and convicted.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the Court of First Instance to send a certified copy of
each conditional pardon received by him, as provided in section one, to the provincial governor and
to the senior inspector of Constabulary
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in the province, and in the city of Manila the clerk of the
Court of First Instance shall send such certified copies to the chief of police of said city and to the
Director of Constabulary.
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Section 3. Whenever the provincial fiscal, or the prosecuting attorney of the city of Manila, as the
case may be, shall ascertain that any of the conditions of a conditional pardon, heretofore or
hereafter granted, has been violated by the person so conditionally pardoned, he shall apply to the
Court of First Instance for an order of arrest against the person so conditionally pardoned to have
him brought before the court. The Court of First Instance shall issue the order of arrest and
proceed with the investigation of the facts, in the presence of the accused and the prosecuting
official.
Section 4.
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Section 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is
hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by
the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, August 9, 1906.
RELATED STATUTES
Act 3815, Article 159 (Effective December 8, 1930)
Penalty for violation of conditional pardon.
Act 4103 (Effective December 5, 1933)
Powers of the Board of Pardons and Parole.
Footnote
1 Now President of the Philippines.

2 Now Provincial Commander.

3 Now Chief of the Constabulary.

4 Repealed by Act 3815, Article 367, approved December 8, 1930.