Amendment to Administrative Code Re: Batangas as Port of Entry

June 14, 1956

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1430

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED, BY ADDING BATANGAS, PROVINCE OF BATANGAS, AS PORT OF ENTRY, AND AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREFOR

SECTION 1. Section eleven hundred fifty-one of the Administrative Code, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Eleven hundred and seventy-three, is further amended to read as follows: cd i

"Sec. 1151. Collection districts and ports of entry thereof . — For administrative purposes, the Philippines shall be divided into nineteen collection districts, the respective limits of which may be changed from time to time in the discretion of the Insular Collector of Customs, but the Province of Pangasinan shall belong to the district of Pangasinan, with Sual as its port of entry, and the Province of Quezon to the district of Quezon, with Hondagua as its port of entry. The principal ports of entry for the respective collection districts shall be Manila, Sual, Tabaco, Cebu, Pulupandan, Hondagua, Iloilo, Davao, Legaspi, Zamboanga, Jolo, Aparri, Jose Panganiban, Cagayan, Tacloban, San Fernando, Hinigaran, Dumaguete City, and Batangas."

SECTION 2. The sum of two hundred fifty thousand pesos is authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the establishment and operation of the customs service at the port of Batangas, Province of Batangas.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 14, 1956 cd i

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 52, No. 6, p. 2977 in June 1956