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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ GENERAL ORDER NO. 24, January 20, 1973 ]

AUTHORIZING THE ARREST AND DETENTION OF ANY PERSON FOE THE COMMISSION OF ANY OF THE CRIMES AGAINST PERSONAL LIBERTY AS DEFINED AND PENALIZED UNDER THE REVISED PENAL CODE, AS AMENDED.

General Order No. 2, dated September 22, 19725 as amended by General Order Nos. 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 2-D and 19, dated January 6, 1973, is hereby further amended to include the following provision:

"23. Any person who commits any of the crimes against personal liberty as defined and penalized under the Revised Penal Code, as amended, to wit:

"a. Kidnapping and serious illegal detention (Article 267);

"b. Slight illegal detention (Article 268);

"c. Unlawful arrest (Article 269);

"d. Kidnapping and failure to return a minor" (Article 270);

"e. Inducing a minor to abandon his home (Article 271);

"f. Slavery (Article 272);

"g. Exploitation of child labor (Article 273); and

"h. Services rendered under compulsion in payment of debts (Article 274)"

Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.ℒαwρhi৷

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President
Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary

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