Text of the provision
Sec. 22. Applicability of Protection Orders to Criminal Cases. — The foregoing provisions on protection orders shall be applicable in criminal cases and/or shall be included in the civil actions deemed impliedly instituted with the criminal actions involving violence against women and their children.
Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004, Republic Act No. 9262 (2004), Section 22. The text above follows the Official Gazette, the publisher of record. The LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings agree with each other but drop words this section’s sense depends on (the operative sentence: the mirrors compress “applicable in criminal cases and/or shall be included in the civil actions deemed impliedly instituted” into an unreadable fragment); a mirror’s shared corruption is not a variant reading, and the enrolled text is published.
What this section means
A one-sentence bridge with large practical effect: the protection-order provisions of the Act apply in criminal cases and are included in the civil actions deemed impliedly instituted with the criminal action for violence against women and their children. A victim does not lose the Act's protective reliefs by going the criminal route — the criminal court can grant them in the prosecution itself.
Related provisions
- Section 21 — Violation Of Protection Orders.
- Section 23 — Bond To Keep The Peace.
Cases citing this section
- Authorities on this section will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.