Short answer. A sentence of reclusion temporal automatically carries civil interdiction for the duration of the sentence, along with perpetual absolute disqualification. Article 41 attaches both as accessory penalties, and the offender still suffers them even if later pardoned on the principal penalty, unless the pardon expressly remits them too.
What the law says
The penalties of reclusion perpetua and reclusion temporal shall carry with them that of civil interdiction for life or during the period of the sentence as the case may be, and that of perpetual absolute disqualification
Revised Penal Code, Article 41 — Accessory Penalties Of Reclusion. Read the full provision →
What the law says
which the offender shall suffer even though pardoned as to the principal penalty, unless the same shall have been expressly remitted in the pardon.
Revised Penal Code, Article 41 — Accessory Penalties Of Reclusion. Read the full provision →
Two accessory penalties attach automatically
Article 41 provides that reclusion perpetua and reclusion temporal shall carry with them that of civil interdiction for life or during the period of the sentence as the case may be, and that of perpetual absolute disqualification. These are accessory penalties — they attach automatically because of the principal sentence, without needing to be separately imposed by the court — and reclusion temporal specifically triggers civil interdiction for the length of the sentence rather than for life, which the article reserves for reclusion perpetua.
What civil interdiction covers is defined elsewhere
Article 41 names civil interdiction as an accessory penalty of reclusion temporal but does not itself spell out everything that interdiction restricts — those specifics sit in the Code's separate provision on the effects of civil interdiction. What Article 41 establishes is simply that the restriction attaches, and for how long: during the period of the reclusion temporal sentence itself.
Perpetual absolute disqualification runs alongside it
Alongside civil interdiction, reclusion temporal also carries perpetual absolute disqualification. Unlike civil interdiction, which is tied to the length of the sentence, this disqualification is described as perpetual — it does not simply end when the sentence is served, and the article treats it as a separate, ongoing consequence of having been convicted and sentenced to reclusion temporal, distinct from the civil interdiction that runs only for the sentence's duration.
Even a pardon does not automatically remove these accessory penalties
Article 41 also addresses what happens if the offender is later pardoned. Both civil interdiction and perpetual absolute disqualification are penalties the offender shall suffer even though pardoned as to the principal penalty, unless the same shall have been expressly remitted in the pardon. So a pardon that only addresses the principal sentence of reclusion temporal, without separately and expressly lifting these accessory penalties, leaves both of them fully in place, exactly as if no pardon had been granted at all with respect to them.