AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1896 ENTITLED “AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A GENERAL REGISTRATION OF VOTERS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES.”

WHEREAS, the information on the general registration of
voters is being disseminated throughout the country by the Commission on
Elections and various organizations;

WHEREAS, a substantial number of citizens especially in the
countryside has not been fully apprised of the ramification of Presidential
Decree No. 1896, such that it is necessary to reset the scheduled meetings of
the citizens’ election committee;

N0W, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the
Constitution, do hereby decree:

SECTION 1. The second paragraph of Section 8 of Presidential
Decree No. 1896, is hereby amended to read as follows:

“For the May 14, 1984 elections, said meetings shall be held on March 24, 25
and 31, and April 1, 1984: Provided, That if, after the last day of
registration, the Commission on Elections should decide that a substantial
number of qualified voters have not registered, it may authorize additional
registration days in order that said voters shall not be deprived of their right
of suffrage.”

SEC. 2. The first paragraph of Section 13 of Presidential
Decree No. 1896, is hereby amended to read as follows:

“SEC. 13. Appointment of the Members of the
Committee.—The members of the citizens election committee representing the
ruling party and the dominant opposition party and their substitutes shall be
appointed by the Commission on Elections not later than March 14, 1984, upon
nomination by the respective political parties. For this purpose, the
directorates of political parties shall submit in (writing to the Commission the
names of their representatives in each province and its component city or
cities; highly urbanized city; and district of Metropolitan Manila, who shall in
turn submit likewise in writing not later than March 7, 1984 the names and
addresses of the persons whom they propose to be appointed as representatives to
the citizens election committee for each voting center in the
province.”

SEC. 3. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of March, in the year of Our Lord,
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Four.