DECLARING AS UNLAWFUL THE MALICIOUS DISSEMINATION OF FALSE INFORMATION OR THE WILLFUL MAKING OF ANY THREAT CONCERNING BOMBS, EXPLOSIVES OR ANY SIMILAR DEVICE OR MEANS OF DESTRUC…

WHEREAS, in the wake of recent bombings arsons, and other
terroristic acts committed by radicals and other lawless elements in the
country, such radical and lawless elements, and other persons popularly known or
described as “pranksters”, have been conveying, propagating or otherwise
disseminating false informations or willfully making threats regarding the
alleged presence of bombs, explosives, incendiary devices, or any similar device
or means of destruction in buildings, tenements, and other places, by words of
mouth or through the use of telephones, telegraph, the mail, and other means of
communication, for the purpose of causing or creating public confusion and
disorder;

WHEREAS, such acts and activities of the radical and other
lawless elements and other persons pose a grave and positive danger to public
safety and security, and it is necessary that the government immediately adopt
and enforce adequate and effective measures to curb these criminal acts and
activities, and to deter the radicals and other lawless elements in the country
from pursuing their destructive designs and their heinous aims and ends;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree as follows:

SECTION 1. Any person who, by word of mouth or through the
use of the mail, telephone, telegraph, printed materials and other instrument or
means of communications, willfully makes any threat or maliciously conveys,
communicates, transmits, imparts, passes on, or otherwise disseminates false
information, knowing the same to be false, concerning an attempt or alleged
attempt being made to kill, injure, or intimidate any individual or unlawfully
to damage or destroy any building, vehicle, or other real or personal property,
by means of explosives, in cendiary devices, and other destructive forces of
similar nature or characteristics, shall upon conviction be punished with
imprisonment of not more than five (5) years or a fine of not more than forty
thousand pesos (P40,000.00) or both at the discretion of the court having
jurisdiction over the offense herein defined and penalized.

SECTION 2. The offender shall be arrested by means of an
Arrest, Search and Seizure Order (ASSO) and shall not be entitled to bail
pending trial by the military tribunals or military courts which shall have
exclusive Jurisdiction over cases involving any violation of the provisions of
this decree,

SECTION 3. This decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of October, in the year of Our Lord,
nineteen hundred and eighty.

			(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines
	By the President:
	(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
		Senior Presidential Assistant