Anti Hazing

• Hazing


  Any act that results in physical or psychological suffering, harm, or injury inflicted on a recruit, neophyte, applicant, or member as part of an initiation rite or practice made as a prerequisite for admission or a requirement for continuing membership in a fraternity, sorority, or organization
• Hazing activities

  • Paddling
  • Whipping
  • Beating
  • Branding
  • Forced calisthenics
  • Exposure to the weather
  • Forced consumption of any food, liquor, beverage, drug or other substance
  • Any other brutal treatment or forced physical activity which is likely to adversely affect the physical and psychological health of such recruit, neophyte, applicant, or member
  • Requiring a recruit, neophyte, applicant, or member to do menial, silly, or foolish tasks
  • Humiliate or embarrass
  • Degrade
  • Abuse
  • Endanger
• Hazing


  • Intentionally made or otherwise, by one person alone or acting with others
• Initiation Rites


  refer to ceremonies, practices, rituals, or other acts, whether formal or informal, that a person must perform or take part in order to be accepted into a fraternity, sorority, or organization as a full-fledged member. It includes ceremonies, practices, rituals, and other acts in all stages of membership in a fraternity, sorority, or organization.
• Organization


  refers to an organized body of people which includes, but is not limited to, any club, association, group, fraternity, and sorority. This term shall

  include the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA), and other similar uniformed service learning institutions.
• Prohibition on hazing is implemented in citizens' military training and citizens' army training
• Physical, mental, and psychological testing and training procedures and practices to determine and enhance the physical, mental, and psychological fitness of prospective regular members of the AFP and the PNP as approved by the Secretary of National Defense and the National Police Commission, duly recommended by the Chief of Staff of the AFP and the Director General of the PNP, are not considered as hazing for purposes of this Act
• The exception provided in Section 3 Prohibition on Hazing shall likewise apply to similar procedures and practices approved by the respective heads of other uniformed learning institutions as to their prospective members
• Sec 3, Prohibition on Hazing shall not apply to any customary athletic events or other similar contests or competitions or any activity or conduct that furthers a legal and legitimate objective, subject to prior submission of a medical clearance or certificate
• Section 12. Nullity of Waiver and Consent. — Any form of approval, consent, or agreement, whether written or otherwise, or of an express waiver of the right to object to the initiation rite or proceeding which consists of hazing, as defined in this Act, made by a recruit, neophyte, or applicant prior to an initiation rite that involves inflicting physical or psychological suffering, harm, or injury, shall be void and without any binding effect on the parties.
• Persons Liable

  1. All who planned or participated
  2. Officers actually present
  3. The adviser who is present and failed to take action to prevent the same from occurring or failed to promptly report the same if he can do so without peril to their person or their family;
  4. Alumni who are present
  5. Officers or members who knowingly cooperated in carrying out the hazing by inducing the victim to be present thereat;
  6. Members who are present and drunk;
  7. All persons present
  8. Former officers, nonresident members, alumni who conceal or obstruct investigation
• The persistent and repeated proposal or invitation made to a person who had twice refused to participate or join the proposed fraternity, sorority, or organization, shall be prima facie evidence of vexation for purposes of this section;
• Persons Liable

  1. Intimidate or threaten to invite after rejection twice
  2. School after written application to conduct initiation was approved or no representative
  3. Barangay, Municipal, City Officials, School Authorities who knew of the hazing but failed to report or prevent, without peril to person or family
  4. Non members who are present, prima facie evidence of participation as principal if they knew of the hazing but failed to report or prevent "
  5. Owner of the place "
  6. Incumbent officers are jointly liable to all who conducted the hazing