Practice question
In evaluating the historical 1969 charge addressed in Maceren under the old fisheries law, a prosecutor invokes later legislation expressly penalizing the activity to cure the earlier administrative rule’s lack of authority. Which is best?
- Later express criminalization does not establish that the earlier rule had the missing authority for that historical charge.
- Every later prohibition retroactively validates every earlier unauthorized rule.
- A later statute automatically changes what the old statute said.
- Maceren declared the activity lawful under every future law.
- The historical dates can never matter.
Legal references
- People v. Maceren, G.R. No. L-32166, October 18, 1977, main decision, administrative rulemaking limits (historical old-Fisheries-Law prosecution): https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1977/oct1977/gr_32166_1977.html
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