Philippine Bar review · Topic

Coverage and Exceptions

Explore Coverage and Exceptions in Secrecy of Bank Deposits (RA 1405; RA 6426, as amended by PD 1035, 1246, and 1453) for the Philippine Bar. Browse subtopics…

Explore the syllabus

Direct subtopics

This topic has no further subtopics. Explore its practice questions below.

Put it into practice

Practice questions

  1. Which investment does RA 1405 Section 2 expressly include in its confidentiality coverage?
  2. Which depositor authorization is expressly recognized by both the cited peso-deposit provision and amended foreign-curr…
  3. Which proceeding is expressly identified in RA 1405 Section 2 as an exception?
  4. A competent court orders inquiry into a protected peso deposit in a public official's bribery case within RA 1405's ter…
  5. A claimant invokes RA 1405's money-as-subject-of-litigation exception to inquire into a peso account that contains the …
  6. Two institutions and the account owners conduct a coordinated verification of a disputed transfer under AFASA Section 8…
  7. A lawyer takes RA 1405's listed impeachment exception and assumes it automatically supplies the identical statutory exc…
  8. Explain why a statement that all Philippine bank deposits are confidential without any exception is legally incomplete.
  9. Distinguish a deposited fund that is itself disputed in litigation from a general request to discover whether a defenda…
  10. Explain why lawful BSP access under AFASA should be analyzed separately from a depositor's written waiver.
  11. What type of application for a judicial bank-inquiry order does AMLA Section11, as amended by RA10167, expressly author…
  12. Under AMLA Section11 as amended by RA10167, what defines the relevant related accounts?