Prescription under Special Laws (Act 3326)

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1. When does Act3326 supply a prescriptive period for a violation punished by a special statute?
2. Under Act3326’s default schedule, an offense punishable only by a fine prescribes after what period?
3. Under Act3326 Section2, proceedings dismissed for reasons not constituting jeopardy have what effect on an interrupted …
4. A special law expressly gives its offense a ten-year limitation period. Its penalty would otherwise fall within Act3326…
5. A defendant invokes Article91’s rule about absence from the Philippines in a special-law case governed by Act3326, whos…
6. In June2026, before the applicable limitation expires, a complainant properly files a criminal complaint with the prose…
7. An agency could readily identify a taxpayer’s unfiled return when the statutory filing deadline passed because its own …
8. Explain how a court chooses between Act3326’s default schedule and a special statute’s own limitation period.
9. A prosecutor argues that every day a special-law accused spent abroad must be excluded solely because Article91 says so…
10. State Consebido’s new rule for prosecution-office filing in summary-procedure cases, its temporal qualification, and wh…
11. A special law provides only a fine and no separate prescription rule. What is Act3326’s default period?
12. A special-law offense carries imprisonment of exactly two years, with no special prescription provision. Which default …