AN ACT AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8485, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT OF 1998″

Fifteenth Congress

Third Regular Session

Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-third day of July, two thousand twelve.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10631

AN ACT AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF , OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT OF 1998″

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. Section 1 of Republic Act No. 8485 is hereby amended to read as follows;

Section 2. Section 6 of Republic Act No. 8485 is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 3. A new Section 7 is hereby inserted after Section 6 of the same Act to read as follows:

Section 4. Section 8 of Republic Act No. 8485 which shall now become Section 9 is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 5. A new Section 10 is hereby inserted after the Section above to read as follows:

Section 6. If, for any reason, any provision of this Act is declared to be unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provisions hereof which are not affected shall continue to be in full force and effect.

Section 7. All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations and other issuances or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby deemed repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

Section 8. This Act shall take effect after fifteen (15) days from its publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation, whichever comes earlier.

Approved,

This Act which is a consolidation of Senate Bill No. 3329 and House Bill No. 6893 was finally passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on June 6, 2013.

Approved: OCT 03 2013

(Sgd.) BENIGNO S. AQUINO III
President of the Philippines