Grant of Temporary Permit to Philippine Packing Corp. (Radio Stations)

June 15, 1954

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1120

AN ACT GRANTING TO PHILIPPINE PACKING CORPORATION A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, PRIVATE BASE, AND PRIVATE COASTAL RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES

SECTION 1. There is hereby granted to Philippine Packing Corporation, its successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, establish, maintain and operate in the Philippines, at Manila, Bugo and Phillips, Bukidnon, and at such other places as the company may select and the Secretary of Public Works and Communications may approve, private fixed point-to-point, private base, and private coastal radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radio radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to be provided with a radio transmission apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus.

SECTION 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point, private base, and private coastal radio stations, or any of them, on lands of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.

SECTION 3. This temporary permit shall continue to be in force during the time that the Government has not established similar service at the places selected by the grantee, and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction of at least two stations be begun within two years from the date of approval of this Act, and all of them be completed within six years from said date. cd

SECTION 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 temporary permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point, private base, and private coastal radio stations in such places within the Philippines as the interest of the company and of its trade and business may justify.

SECTION 5. This temporary permit shall not take effect until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequencies and wave lengths to be used by the stations.

SECTION 6. No fees shall be charged by the grantee, as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only.

SECTION 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall so construct and operate its radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.

SECTION 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands, or actions arising out of accidents or injuries, whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations.

SECTION 9. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted. cdt

SECTION 10. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, calamity or disaster to cause the closing of the grantee's radio station or to authorize the temporary use or possession thereof by any department of the Government upon just compensation.

SECTION 11. This temporary permit shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when the public interest so requires, and shall not be interpreted as an exclusive grant of the privilege herein provided for. acd

SECTION 12. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 15, 1954

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 50, No. 8, p. 3451 in August 1954