Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra advised law enforcement agencies to wait for the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) before enforcing the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.
“It will be more prudent for law enforcement agents to await the promulgation of the IRR,” Guevarra said.
Otherwise, Guevarra said that “if there are no such imminent threats, it will really be more prudent to await the promulgation of the IRR.”
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