Amendment to R.A. No. 790 (Grant of Franchise to Acoje Mining Co., Inc.)

June 20, 1959

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2347

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS ONE, TWO AND FOUR OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY

SECTION 1.  Sections one, two and four of Republic Act Numbered Seven hundred ninety are amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 1. There is hereby granted to the Acoje Mining Co., Inc., its successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, maintain and operate in the Philippines, at such places as the said grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point and private coastal radio stations, as well as point-to-point field stations for new operations and associated companies, mobile land stations, mobile sea stations, mobile air stations and communications from point-to-point ground, land point to mobile air, land or sea, mobile air to air, sea or land and mobile sea to air, sea or land, for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus. Said grantee is authorized to use any combination of these facilities for the efficiency and safety of its operations. acd

"Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point and private coastal radio stations, as well as point-to-point field stations for new operations and associated companies, mobile land stations, mobile sea stations, mobile air stations and communications from point-to-point ground, land point to mobile air, land or sea, mobile air to air, sea or land and mobile sea to air, sea or land, or any of them on lands of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.

"Sec. 4. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without further special assent of the Congress of the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point and private coastal radio stations, as well as point-to-point field stations for new operations and associated companies, mobile land stations, mobile sea stations, mobile air stations and communications from point-to-point ground, land point to mobile air, land or sea, mobile air to air, sea or land and mobile sea to air, sea or land, in such places within the Philippines as the interest of the company and of its trade and business may justify."

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 20, 1959

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 55, No. 33, p. 6633 on August 17, 1959