100 OG. No. 28, 4443 (July 12, 2004)
(a) the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2002 (Republic Act [RA] No. 9160, as amended), which requires banks and other covered institutions to established and record the true identity of their clients based on official documents; (b) the Revised Penal Code (Act of 3815, as amended) which penalizes the public use of a fictitious name for the purpose of concealing a crime, evading the execution of a judgment, or causing of damage (1st paragraph, Art 178), the concealment of a person’s true name and other personal circumstances (2nd paragraph, Art. 178), and the Act of defrauding another by using a fictitious name (4th paragraph, Art. 315); (c) the Civil Code of the Philippines (RA No. 386, as amended), which prohibits the use of different names and surnames, except for pen and stage names (Art. 379 and 380); (d) the Philippine Immigration Act of 1940 Commonwealth Act No. 613’ as amended), which penalizes any individual who shall be evade the immigration laws by appearing under an assumed or fictitious name (Sec. 45); (e) the Tax Reform Act of 1997 (RA8424), as amended, which made it unlawful for any person to enter any false or fictitious name in a taxpayer’s books of accounts or records; (f) Presidential Decree No. 1829, which penalizes any individual who shall knowingly or willfully obstruct, impede, frustrate or delay the apprehension of suspects and the investigation and prosecution of criminal cases by publicly using a fictitious name for the purpose of concealing a crime evading prosecution or the execution of a judgment, or concealing his true name and other personal circumstances for the same purpose (Sec. 1[d]); and (g) Commonwealth Act No. 142, as amended by RA No. 6085, which penalizes any person who shall use any name different from the one with which he was registered at birth in the office of the local civil registry, or with which he was baptized for the first time, or with which he was registered in the Bureau of Immigration, or such substitute name as may have been authorized by a competent court (Sec. 1);Now, therefore, I Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order all government department and agencies to require, for transaction requiring the production of identity documents, Filipino citizens and resident aliens to present any of the following: