FURTHER AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 39, AS AMENDED.

SECTION 1. Paragraph 3 of the Rules governing Military
Tribunals as promulgated by Presidential Decree No. 39 is hereby amended
to read as follows:

“3. Jurisdiction.

1. Military Commission. All cases involving offenses where the
   range of punishment that may be imposed is confinement for at least
   six (6) years and one (1) day, or a fine of not less than two thousand
   pesos (P2,000.00) shall be referred to a Military Commission.
2. Provost Court. The following cases shall be referred to a
   Provost Court:

1. Where the range of punishment for the offense charged is
   confinement of not more than six (6) years or a fine of less than two
   thousand pesos (P2,000.00).
2. Illegal possession of firearms or explosives (violation of
   the laws on firearms and explosives as defined and penalized in the
   Revised Administrative Code, as amended, and General Orders Numbered 6
   and 7, as amended, in relation to Presidential Decree No. 9); or any
   offense or offenses committed with the use of an illegally possessed
   firearm or explosive: Provided, however, That the range of penalty
   imposable for the attendant crime or crimes is within the jurisdiction
   of a Provost Court as herein provided.

3. A commissioned officer on active duty in the Armed Forces of
   the Philippines, shall, in all cases, however, be tried only by a
   Military Commission.”

SEC. 2. All cases of illegal possession of firearms or
explosives now pending before Military Commissions, whether or not there
has been arraignment, shall be tried and decided by said Military
Commissions.

SEC. 3. This decree shall take effect
immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of February, in the
year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.