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Hotel officials charged for denying senior citizen’s discount

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In a 22-page resolution, charged for violation of two senior citizen laws, particularly Section 4 (a)(7) of Republic Act 9994 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010 and Article 116 of Republic Act 7394 or the Consumer Act of the Philippines are the president of the corporation that owns the hotel and its finance director.



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As a defense, the hotel official said that their failure to give the 20 percent discount was never intentional and not malicious.


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But the prosecutor’s resolution said that a defense of good faith is immaterial for violations of special laws such as the Expanded Senior Citizens Act and Consumer Act.



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“It is well-settled in criminal jurisprudence that failure to comply with the law, being malum prohibitum (wrong in itself), intent to commit it or good faith is immaterial,”

read the resolution.




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