SUPREME COURT
EN BANC
[A.M. No. 00-11-01-SC. March 25, 2003.]
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 Court’s
consideration and approval the Proposed 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, 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.
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DAVIDE, JR., C.J., BELLOSILLO, PUNO, VITUG,
MENDOZA, PANGANIBAN, QUISUMBING, YNARESSANTIAGO, CARPIO, AUSTRIA-MARTINEZ, CORONA,
CARPIO-MORALES, CALLEJO, SR., and AZCUNA, J.J.
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:
“Section 1. Scope. — This rule shall govern the summary
procedure in the Metropolitan Trial Courts, the Municipal Trial
Courts in Cities, the Municipal Trial Courts, and the Municipal
Circuit Trial Courts in the following cases falling within their
jurisdiction:
A.
Civil Cases:
x x x
B.
Criminal Cases:
x x x
4. Violations of Batas Pambansa
(Bouncing Checks Law);
Bilang
22
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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).
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This Rule shall not apply to a civil case where the plaintiff’s 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 the ordinary procedure.”
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