Executive Order No. 434 (1997)

Section 2 of Executive Order No

Section 1. Section 2 of Executive Order No. 3, dated 7 July 1992, as amended, is hereby amended as follows:

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Section. 2. — Composition. — The Commission shall be composed of the Secretary of Justice as Chairman the Secretary of Interior and Local Government as Vice-Chairman; the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel as Co-Vice-Chairman; and two representatives of non-government organizations (NGO) which are involved in crime prevention and designated by the President upon recommendation of the Chairman.—

Section 2. Section 4 of the same Executive Order is amended as follows:

—Section. 4. — OFFENSES COVERED. — In the discharge of its functions, the Commission shall have the authority to take cognizance of the following crimes:

a. Those committed by organized/syndicated crime groups, including but not limited to: gunrunning, illegal logging, robbery, kidnapping for ransom, white slave trade, illegal recruitment, carnapping, smuggling, piracy, drug-trafficking, falsification of land titles and other government forms, large scale swindling, film piracy, counterfeiting and bank frauds.

An organized/syndicated crime group means a group of two or more persons collaborating, confederating or mutually helping one another in the commission of any crime.

b. Those which are considered as heinous crimes.

A heinous crime, for purposes of this Executive Order, is any of the offenses defined in R.A. 7659; a grave felony as defined in the Revised Penal Code; or an offense punishable under special law, committed in a manner that is revolting or shocking to the common sensibilities of man, whether deliberately sought or not, such as those attended by cruelty, ignominy treachery, and similar circumstances.

c. Those committed by the members of the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

d. Violations of the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972, as amended.

e. Plunder as defined in R.A. 7080, as amended.

f. Such other offenses which the President may consider appropriate to place under its authority.—

Section 3. All orders, issuances, rules and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

This Executive Order shall take effect immediately

Section 4. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 20th day of August, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Seven. 1a⍵⍴h!1

(SGD.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(SGD.) RUBEN D. TORRES

Executive Secretary