COMELEC Pertinent Laws

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Basic Laws

CODE TITLE APPROVAL DATE
  The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines  
Batas Pambansa Blg. 881 Omnibus Election Code 12.03.1985
Republic Act No. 6646 An Act Introducing Additional Reforms in the Electoral System and for Other Purposes 01.05.1988
Republic Act No. 6735 An Act Providing for a System of Initiative and Referendum and Appropriating Funds Therefor 08.04.1989
Republic Act No. 7160 Local Government Code 10.10.1991
Republic Act No. 7166 An Act Providing For Synchronized National and Local Elections and For Electoral Reforms, Authorizing Appropriations Therefor, and For Other Purposes 11.26.1991
Republic Act No. 7941 An Act Providing for the Election of Party-List Representatives Through the Party-List System, and Appropriating Funds Therefor 03.03.1995
Republic Act No. 8173 An Act Granting All Citizens' Arms Equal Opportunity to be Accredited by the Commission on Elections, Amending for the Purpose Republic Act Numbered Seventy-One Hundred and Sixty-Six, As Amended 12.20.1995
Republic Act No. 8189 An Act Providing for a General Registration of Voters, Adopting a System of Continuing Registration, Prescribing the Procedures Thereof and Authorizing the Appropriation of Funds Therefor 06.11.1996
Republic Act No. 8295 An Act Providing for the Proclamation of a Lone Candidate for Any Elective Office in a Special Election, and for Other Purposes 06.06.1997
Republic Act No. 9006 An Act to Enhance the Holding of Free, Orderly, Honest, Peaceful and Credible Elections Through Fair Election Practices 02.12.2001
Republic Act No. 9189 An Act Providing for a System of Overseas Absentee Voting by Qualified Citizens of the Philippines Abroad, Appropriating Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes 02.13.2003
Republic Act No. 9369 An Act Amending Republic Act No. 8436, Entitled "An Act Authorizing the Commission on Elections to Use an Automated Eleciton System in the May 11, 1998 National or Local Elections and in Subsequent National and Local Electoral Exercises, to Encourage Transparency, Credibility, Fairness and Accuracy of Elections, Amending for the Purpose Batas Pambansa Blg. 881, as Amended, Republic Act No. 7166 and Other Related Election Laws, Providing Funds Therefor and for Other Purposes" 01.23.2007
Republic Act No. 9485 An Act to Improve Effieciency In The Delivery Of Government Service To The Public By Reducing Bureaucratic Red Tape, Preventing Graft And Corruption, And Providing Penalties Therefor 06.02.2007
  COMELEC Rules of Procedure 02.15.1993

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