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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 495
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 495
- AMENDING Section 1954, PARAGRAPH (C) OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE
CODE, AS AMENDED
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WHEREAS, a
vital operational requirement of our national population planning
program is the utilization of postal facilities, particularly in the
transmission of contraceptive devises; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, under existing postal rules and regulations, contraceptive
devices are deemed unmailable; and
WHEREAS, it is felt that this postal regulation may have adverse effect
on the overall operational efforts on family planning; hence, there is
a need to allow the legal utilization of the mails for transmitting all
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as
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, do hereby further amend Section
1954, paragraph (c) of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended by
Republic Act No. 4623, to read as follows: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"Sec. 1954. Absolutely non-mailable matter. —chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"(a) .
"(b) .
"(c) Articles, instruments, drugs, and substances
designed, intended of adapted to produce abortion, or for any indecent
or immoral use, or which are advertised or described in a manner
calculated to lead another to use or apply them for producing abortion,
or for any indecent or immoral purpose."
This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 28th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-four.
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