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Encyclopedia > Republic Act

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 Republics 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.
2711 Mar 10, 1917 established most of the modern-day provinces of the Philippines: Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur from Camarines.
Post-Commonwealth
14 Sep 7, 1946 changed the name of the province of Tayabas to Quezon.
333 Jul 17, 1948 declared Quezon City the capital of the Philippines.
387 Petroleum Act of 1949
537 Jun 16, 1959 extended the area of Quezon City.
2141 Apr 8, 1959 made Biliran a sub-province of Leyte.
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 Feb 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 Sep 17, 1971 made Siquijor an independent province.
6430 Jun 17, 1972 changed the name of the province of Davao del Norte to Davao.
6734 Aug 1, 1989 created the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), which was officially inaugurated on November 6, 1990 in Cotabato City.
6766 Oct 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 Dec 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 Feb 14, 1995 divided Kalinga-Apayao into Kalinga and Apayao provinces.
8223 Dec 8, 1996 converted the municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila into a city.
8438 Dec 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 Jan 31, 1998 split the province of Davao into two, creating the province of Compostela Valley.
8471 Jan 31, 1998 created the Island Garden City of Samal in Davao province by combining the municipalities of Samal, Babak, and Kaputian.
8472 Jan 31, 1998 converted the municipality of Tagum, the capital of Davao, into a city.
8473 Jan 31, 1998 created the municipality of Braulio E. Dujali, Davao out of several barangays in Panabo and Carmen.
8479 Feb 10, 1998 "Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998" / an act deregulating the downstream oil industry and for other purposes
8491 Feby 12, 1998 prescribed the code of the national flag, anthem, motto, coat-of-arms and other heraldic items and devices of the Philippines.
8535 Feb 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 Jun 23, 1999 "Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999" / An Act Providing for a Comprehensive Air Pollution Control Policy and for Other Purposes
9015 Mar 5, 2001 converted the municipality of Panabo, Davao into a city.
9136 Jun 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

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