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Practice question: Direct Legislation – Initiative and Referendum (RA 6735)

Essay Medium Jurisprudence

Practice question

COMELEC receives a national statutory-initiative petition and later determines it sufficient. Explain which event supplies the reference for Section 8’s forty-five-to-ninety-day election window, and why it should not be confused with the separate thirty-day receipt period.

Legal references

  • RA 6735, Initiative and Referendum Act, August 4, 1989: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/2017; Section 8.

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