Short answer. Yes. The Revised Penal Code punishes a public officer who wrongfully delivers papers or copies of papers under their charge that should not be published, as a distinct offense from revealing a secret — the two acts are punished under the same article but do not require each other.
What the law says
Any public officer who shall reveal any secret known to him by reason of his official capacity, or shall wrongfully deliver papers or copies of papers of which he may have charge and which should not be published, shall suffer the penalties
Revised Penal Code, Article 229 — Revelation Of Secrets By An Officer. Read the full provision →
Two separate offenses in one article
Article 229 uses the word "or" to join two distinct acts, not a single combined requirement: a public officer who shall reveal any secret known to them by reason of their official capacity, or who shall wrongfully deliver papers or copies of papers in their charge which should not be published. These are alternative grounds for liability. Wrongfully delivering restricted papers is enough on its own — the article does not require that the delivery also expose a secret.
What makes the delivery of papers wrongful
The second clause turns on two things: the officer must have charge of the papers or copies — meaning custody or responsibility over them by virtue of their position — and the papers must be ones which should not be published. If both are true, delivering them wrongfully falls within the article even if nothing in the papers would qualify as a "secret" in the sense the first clause addresses. The offense is about improperly handing over restricted material, not specifically about spilling confidential information.
The penalty scales with the resulting harm
Article 229 sets two penalty tiers depending on consequence: a heavier penalty applies if the revelation of secrets or the delivery of such papers caused serious damage to the public interest, and a lighter penalty applies otherwise. As amended by Republic Act No. 10951 (2017), which revised fines and property values throughout the Code, the amounts currently in force are those the amended text of this article now states, rather than the original 1930 figures.
Why this matters for a government employee
Because wrongful delivery of restricted papers is its own basis for liability under Article 229, a government employee cannot assume they are safe from this article simply because whatever they handed over did not disclose a genuine secret. If the papers were within their official charge and were the kind that should not be published, wrongfully delivering them can support a charge under this article on that basis alone.