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Practice question: Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act (RA 7610, as amended by RA 9231 and 11648)

Multiple Choice Medium Jurisprudence

Practice question

A seventeen-year-old working child earns PHP 300,000 in the year. What minimum trust-fund amount follows the statutory thirty-percent requirement?
  1. PHP 9,000.
  2. PHP 30,000.
  3. Zero merely because the child is seventeen.
  4. PHP 90,000.
  5. The entire amount belongs to the employer.

Legal references

  • RA 7610 as amended by RA 9231, Sections 12-C and 12-D, trust fund and worst forms of child labor: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/1388

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