Limitation of Initial Coverage of E.O. No. 122 (September 13, 1993)

October 26, 1993

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 122-A

LIMITING THE INITIAL COVERAGE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 122 ENTITLED "PROVIDING FOR THE SURRENDER AND LICENSING OF LOOSE FIREARMS AND ESTABLISHING A CENTRAL RECORDS UNIT FOR ALL FIREARMS" TO UNREGISTERED FIREARMS AND PROVIDING FOR THE OPERATIONAL COST OF THE COMPUTERIZATION OF FIREARMS RECORDS

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 122 dated September 13, 1993 grants a fixed period of three months from its effectivity within which all loose firearms, which include all firearms which were never registered and those firearms which had been registered but not re-registered pursuant to Presidential Emergency Memorandum Order No. 6 dated January 4, 1990, may be surrendered to the authorities and registered;

WHEREAS, it is imperative in the interest of public safety to give priority to the surrender and registration of all firearms which had been previously registered but not re-registered under existing law;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. Within the period fixed in Executive Order No. 122 dated September 13, 1993, the provisions of said Executive Order shall apply initially to those persons who have in their possession firearms which have not been re-registered pursuant to Presidential Emergency Memorandum No. 6 dated January 4, 1990.

SECTION 2. The cost of computerization of firearms records pursuant to Section 4 of Executive Order No. 122 shall be part of operational costs chargeable against the special fund under R.A. No. 6963. cdt

SECTION 3. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 26th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Three.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 89 No. 50 Page 7279 on December 13, 1993.