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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1031
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1031
- AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 991 BY DECLARING THE PROVISIONS OF
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 229 ENTITLED "PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF
VOTING AND CANVASS OF VOTES IN BARANGAYS (CITIZENS ASSEMBLIES)"
APPLICABLE TO THE NATIONAL REFERENDUM-PLEBISCITE OF OCTOBER 1976, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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WHEREAS,
the Batasang Bayan in first session assembled urged in Resolution No.
3, dated September 21, 1976, the promulgation of a Decree amending
Presidential Decree No. 991 by Declaring the Provisions of Presidential
Decree No. 229 entitled "Providing for the Manner of Voting and Canvass
of Votes in Barangays (Citizens Assemblies)" Applicable to the National
Referendum-Plebiscite of October 1976, and for other purposes in
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution, and in
accordance with the recommendation of the Batasang Bayan, do hereby
decree and order:cralaw:red
Section 1. Exclusive Supervision and Control by the
Commission on Elections. — For the purpose of vesting in the Commission
on Election exclusive supervision control over the October 1976
National Referendum-Plebiscite, the provisions of Presidential Decree
No. 229 dated June 30, 1973, entitled "Providing for the Manner of
Voting and Canvass of Votes in Barangays (Citizens Assemblies)", as
amended, shall govern the conduct of the National Referendum-Plebiscite
of October 1976, including its provisions on prohibited acts, the
imposition of penalties, prosecution of offenses and jurisdiction of
courts in connection therewith.
Section 2. Translation into Major Dialects. — The
questions shall be translated into as many major dialects as possible
and such translation shall be printed in leaflet or poster form in
sufficient number using cheap but appropriate material.
At least fourteen days before referendum-plebiscite day, the translated
questions in leaflet form shall be disseminated as widely as possible
to all barangays where the dialect used in the translation is spoken.
Section 3. Suppletory Application of other Decrees. —
All provisions of presidential decrees related to the referenda of July
1973 and February 1975, not inconsistent with this Decree are hereby
made applicable in a suppletory character to the October 1976 national
referendum-plebiscite.
Section 4. Repealing Clause. — Sections 4, 8, 9, 10,
13, 14 and 15 of Presidential Decree No. 991 and all other provisions
thereof inconsistent with this Decree are hereby repealed.
Consequently, sections 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 16 17, 18, 19 and 20 of
Presidential Decree No. 991 shall be renumbered as sections 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13, respectively.
Section 5. Appropriations. — To carry out the
provisions of this Decree, the sum of EIGHT MILLION PESOS
(P8,000,000.00) is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National
Treasury not otherwise appropriated to be spent under the exclusive
authority of the Commission on Elections.
Section 6. Effectivity. — This Decree shall take
effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 22nd day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and seventy-six.
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