Amendment to R.A. No. 8483 Re: Grant of Franchise to Camiguin Telephone Cooperative (Local Exchange Network)

April 20, 2001

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9122

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 11 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8483 ENTITLED 'AN ACT GRANTING THE CAMIGUIN TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, ESTABLISH, INSTALL, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE LOCAL EXCHANGE NETWORK IN CAMIGUIN ISLAND, AND IN SOME AREAS OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL PARTICULARLY THE MUNICIPALITIES OF BALINGASAG, LAGONGLONG, SALAY, BINUANGAN, KINOGUITAN, SUGBONGCOGON, BALINGOAN, TALISAYAN, MEDINA, MAGSAYSAY AND GINGOOG CITY'

SECTION 1. Section 11 of Republic Act No. 8483 is hereby amended to read as follows: AaEcDS

"SECTION 11. Tax Provisions. — The grantee shall enjoy the fiscal incentives as provided for under Republic Act No. 6938, otherwise known as "Cooperative Code of the Philippines", as amended, for a period of ten years commencing from the date of effectivity of this Act.

Likewise, the grantee shall comply with all the requirements and conditionalities as prescribed under said law prior to its availment of said tax incentives".

SECTION 2. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days from the date of its publication, upon the initiative of the grantee, in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines.

Approved: April 20, 2001

Published in The Manila Times and the Daily Tribune on May 5, 2001. Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 97 No. 17, 36 Supp., on April 23, 2001.