Text of the provision
Art. 33. Effects of the penalties of suspension from any public office, profession or calling, or the right of suffrage. -The suspension from public office, profession or calling, and the exercise of the right of suffrage shall disqualify the offender from holding such office or exercising such profession or calling or right of suffrage during the term of the sentence. The person suspended from holding public office shall not hold another having similar functions during the period of his suspension.
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Act No. 3815, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this article means
Suspension from public office, from a profession or calling, or from the right of suffrage disqualifies the offender from holding that office, practising that profession or calling, or voting for the term of the sentence. Someone suspended from public office also may not hold another office with similar functions during the suspension.
Related provisions
- Article 28 — Computation Of Penalties.
- Article 34 — Civil Interdiction Explained.
On this text. This article is reproduced as the Revised Penal Code enacted it, verified word-for-word against two independent sources. Republic Act No. 10951 (2017) revised the penalty amounts in many other articles of this Code; where an amount appears below it is the figure this article itself carries.
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