WHEREAS, the Calamity Fund Act of 1972
restricts the use of the funds provided therein to relief and
rehabilitation activities in the wake of the floods in Central Luzon,
Manila and environs, and failed to take account of the effects of the
same calamity in the provinces of Laguna and Rizal and in the Bicol
Provinces, as well as of the effects of the widespread drought in
Visayas and Mindanao;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the same Act does not provide for a judicious disposition of
proceeds and/or residuals from the various uses to which said Fund was
applied, including proceeds from sales of purchased commodities,
amortizations and repayments on loans extended, and did not consider
that such proceeds if used as revolving funds, could be multiplied to
finally cover the full requirements of relief and rehabilitation
activities; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the restriction in Section 2(c) of said Act to 5% of the
amount appropriated or the total released at any one time, for payment
of personal services, administrative and other operation expenses, did
not consider the labor-intensive nature of relief and rehabilitation
activities.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, Commander-in-Chief of all the
Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081,
dated September 21, 1972, and General Order No. 1, dated September 22,
1972, as amended, in order to effect the desired changes and reforms in
the social, economic and political structure of the country, do hereby
order and decree that the Calamity Fund Act of 1972 shall be amended,
as it is hereby amended, to provide, as it is hereby provided, the
provisions of said Act to the contrary notwithstanding, as follows:cralaw:red
1. That the Funds provided under the said Act may be
spent for relief and rehabilitation activities in the provinces of
Laguna and Rizal and in calamity-stricken Bicol provinces, as well as
in provinces affected by drought;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
2. That the proceeds and/or residuals from the
various applications of the said funds be reverted to Revolving Funds
to be spent, upon approval by the appropriate Department Secretary or
agency head, for similar or other relief and rehabilitation activities
needed to be further undertaken; and finally
3. That the aforestated restriction of not more than
5% for personal services, administrative and other operational expenses
shall not apply in the case of the said funds.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 14th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-two.
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