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Learning from Case Studies 71officials or employees in violation of this Act shall besubject to the same penal liabilities as the public officialsor employees and shall be tried jointly with them.• Republic Act 3019 Section 9 (b): Any public officer violatingany of the provisions of Section 7 of this Act shall bepunished by a fine of not less than 1,000 pesos nor morethan 5,000 pesos, or by imprisonment not exceeding oneyear and six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment,at the discretion of the court. The violation of saidsection proven in proper administrative proceedings shallbe sufficient cause for removal or dismissal of a public officer,even if no criminal prosecution is instituted against himor her. 6• The Revised Penal Code (Articles 183 and 171):−−Article 183 (perjury) provides for the penalty of arrestomayor in its maximum period to prision correctional inits minimum period ranging from four months and oneday to two years and four months of imprisonment for astatement made upon a material matter before a competentofficer authorized to receive and administer anoath, if the statement contains willful and deliberateassertion of falsehood, and the sworn statement containingthe falsity is required by law.Article 171 (falsification) stipulates that falsification ofrecords would be subject to a penalty of prision mayorranging from six years and one day to twelve years ofimprisonment for untruthful statements made in thenarration of facts, and that the person making untruthfulstatements has a legal obligation to disclose the truth ofthe facts narrated by him.• Uniform Rules on Administrative Cases in the Civil Servicefor Dishonesty: Section 52 provides a penalty of dismissalfrom the service for the first offense.6This provision was amended by BP Blg. 195, 16 March 1982.ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific