15/01/2025
PUBLIC ADVISORY: Election gun ban, which is enforced from January 12 to June 11, 2025, bans the carrying of fi****ms outside of their residence or place of business during the election period unless authorized by the Commission on Elections, according to the Omnibus Election Code.
Only regular members or officers of the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and other law enforcement agencies who are duly deputized by the Commission are authorized and may carry fi****ms.
The following officials are granted full exemption from the prohibition:
• President
• Vice President
• Senate President
• Senators
• House Speaker
• Members of the House of Representatives
• Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
• Cabinet Secretaries, Undersecretaries, Assistant Secretaries, and other officials in the Executive Branch with equivalent rank as provided by the Office of the President
• Justices of the Court of Appeals
• Sandiganbayan
• Court of Tax Appeals
• Judges of the Regional Trial Courts and Municipal/Metropolitan/Circuit
Trial Courts and Shariah
High/District/Circuit Courts
• Chairperson and Members of the Judicial and Bar Council
• Chairperson, Commissioners, Executive Director, Deputy Executive Directors, Directors, and Lawyers employed by and holding office in the Main Office of the Commission on Elections, Chiefs-of-Staff of the Offices of the Chairman and Com-missioners, Regional Election Directors, Assistant Regional Election Directors, Provincial Election Supervisors, Regional Election Attorneys, Election Officers/Act-ing Election Officers, and Organic Security Officers of the Commission on Elections
• Chairpersons and Commissioners of the Civil Service Commission, Commission on Audit, and the Commission on Human Rights.