PD 330

Question 1

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 330 title?

Answer 1

PENALIZING TIMBER SMUGGLING OR ILLEGAL CUTTING OF LOGS FROM PUBLIC FORESTS AND FOREST RESERVES AS QUALIFIED THEFT

Question 2

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 330 Importance:

Answer 2

✓ Forest is a vital source of logs and other wood products.
✓ It is the solemn duty of every citizen to protect public forest and forest reserves from all forms of destruction.
✓ There is a NEED to discourage further forest destruction and denudation in order to conserve the remaining public forest .

Question 3

ANY person, who directly or indirectly:
✓ Cuts
✓ Gathers
✓ Removes
✓ Smuggles timber
✓ Including other forest products
Either from PUBLIC FOREST (license or lease), RESERVATIONS and PRRIVATE OWENED FOREST shall be GUILTY of crime ____________.

Answer 3

QUALIFIED THEFT

Question 4

Give the difference of Theft from Qualified Theft.

Answer 4

Theft: Taking someone else’s property without their consent with the intent to gain.
Qualified Theft: A more serious form of theft where the person taking the property is in a position of trust (like an employee or domestic servant) and uses that trust to steal, or the stolen property is of a specific type (like a motor vehicle). It carries harsher penalties due to the betrayal of trust.