PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 246, July 18, 1973

AMENDING SECTIONS ONE AND TWO OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4169, EXTENDING TO THE POPULATION COUNCIL OF NEW YORK AND TO THE NON-FILIPINO CITIZENS SERVING ON THE STAFF THE EXEMPTIONS AND …

Presidential Decrees July 18, 1973



WHEREAS, the immediate and successful implementation of the
Population Control programs of the Government are essential to the national
economy and the development of the country;

WHEREAS, the Population Council of New York is engaged in
assisting governments and government institutions or instrumentalities in
facilitating their population control activities; and

WHEREAS, the Population Council of New York has assigned a
demographer to assist the Population Institute of the University of the
Philippines;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to
Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and General Order No. 1, dated
September 22, 1972, as amended, do hereby order and decree that:

SECTION 1. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Four
Thousand One Hundred Sixty-nine, is hereby further amended to include the
Population Council of New York as recipient of the exemptions and privileges
provided in the said Section.

SEC. 2. Section 2 of the same Act is hereby amended to
include non-Filipino citizens serving on the staff of the Population Council of
New York as beneficiaries of the exemptions and privileges provided in
the said Section.

SEC 3. All laws, decrees, orders and regulations
inconsistent with the provisions of this Decree are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.

SEC. 4. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of July, in the year of Our Lord,
nineteen hundred and seventy-three.

 

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President

Republic of the Philippines

   

 

By the President:  
 
(Sgd.) ROBERTO V. REYES  
  Assistant Executive Secretary