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Practice question: Further Restrictions for Minors (RA 11596)

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A printer knowingly distributes tampered birth certificates to disguise a sixteen-year-old’s age and facilitate the proposed marriage. The printer neither arranges the ceremony nor officiates. Which is correct under4(a)?
  1. The specific fraudulent-document clause can impose liability despite not officiating
  2. Only the officiant can ever be liable
  3. Printing is categorically immune
  4. A forged age legally changes the child’s actual age
  5. The child must pay the printer’s penalty

Legal references

  • RA11596: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2021/ra_11596_2021.html Sections4–6, current prohibited acts and civil consequences.

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