Page 4 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

PRELIMINARY CHAPTER

Article 2. Laws shall take effect after fifteen

days following the completion of their

publication in the Official Gazette, unless it is

otherwise provided. This Code shall take effect

one year after such publication. (1a)

Article 3. Ignorance of the law excuses no one

from compliance therewith. (2)

Article 4. Laws shall have no retroactive effect,

unless the contrary is provided. (3)

Article 5. Acts executed against the provisions

of mandatory or prohibitory laws shall be void,

except when the law itself authorizes their

validity. (4a)