WHEREAS,
Presidential Decree No. 264, dated August 2, 1973 was designed and
intended principally to rehabilitate, develop, expand and promote the
socio-economic conditions of the economically depressed provinces of
Mindanao, particularly in the Muslim provinces of North Cotabato,
Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat, Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Sulu,
Tawi-Tawi, Zamboanga del Norte, and Zamboanga del Sur, and to provide
more opportunities and incentives to the Muslim citizens of the
Philippines, in actively and sincerely participating and getting
involved in community development and nation-building;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in order to render more effective the foregoing intentions and
objectives of this Decree, it is necessary that the religious beliefs
and practices of the Muslim citizens of the Philippines, be followed
and respected, unless otherwise it is contrary to law, good morals and
public policy.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
amend Presidential Decree No. 264, as follows:cralaw:red
Section 1. Section 1 of Presidential Decree No. 264,
creating the Philippine Amanah Bank, is hereby amended to read as
follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 1. Purposes, Name, Domicile and Basis. — To
provide credit commercial, development and savings banking facilities
at reasonable terms to the people of the primarily Muslim provinces of
Mindanao, principally, the provinces of North Cotabato, Maguindanao,
Sultan Kudarat, Lanao del Sur, Lanao del Norte, Sulu, Basilan,
Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur and Palawan for the
establishment, acquisition, development and expansion of agricultural,
commercial and industrial enterprises, there is hereby created a body
corporate to be known as the Philippine Amanah Bank, which shall have
its principal place of business at Zamboanga City and shall exist for
fifty years.
The Philippine Amanah Bank shall be based on the Islamic Concept of
Banking, following the no-interest and partnership principles." chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 2. The third paragraph of Section 15 of the
same decree is hereby amended to read as follows:cralaw:red
"All profits assigned as dividends to the shares of the government, and
all remaining net profits of the bank after the payment of dividends to
stockholders other than the government of the Philippines, its agencies
or instrumentalities, if there is any, shall be transmitted to the
Muslim Development Fund of the Philippine Amanah Bank."
Section 3. All laws, decrees, orders, rules and
regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with this Decree are hereby
repealed or modified accordingly.
Section 4. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 20th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-four.
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