PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 172, April 10, 1973
AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 138 BY ALLOWING THE OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE REPARATIONS MISSION IN TOKYO, JAPAN, TO ENJOY THE BENEFITS GRANTED UNDER THE DECREE
virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of 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 amend Section 1
of Presidential Decree No. 138, dated March 2, 1973, to read as follows:
“SECTION 1. The provision of Section 105 of Presidential
Decree No. 34, dated October 27, 1972, to the contrary notwithstanding,
the personnel of the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Philippine
Reparations Mission in Tokyo, Japan, Armed Forces Attaches and Military
personnel, and such other government attaches and personnel as have been
attached with our missions abroad by their respective departments, who
are or have been recalled not later than June 30, 1973 due to government
reorganization shall enjoy the exemption from the payment of customs
duties and taxes on their personal and household effects, including one
motor car, allowed under the laws and regulations in effect prior to the
effectivity of said Decree: Provided, That such exemption is
enjoyed only once by each such returning official or employee, and only
upon certification by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs that the personal
and household effects and motor car brought in by a returning officer
or employee fall within the regulations prescribed by the Department of
Foreign Affairs.”
Done in the City of Manila, this 10th day of April, in the year of
Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.
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(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
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President
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Republic of the Philippines
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| (Sgd.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA | ||
| Assistant Executive Secretary | ||