REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5361 - AN
ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED
FORTY-NINE, ENTITLED "AN ACT GRANTING A. SORIANO Y CIA., A TEMPORARY
PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT,
COASTAL, AERONAUTICAL, LAND-BASED AND LAND-MOBILE RADIO STATIONS FOR
THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE
PHILIPPINES
Section 1. The title of Republic Act Numbered One thousand
four hundred forty-nine is hereby amended to read as follows:
"An Act granting A. Soriano y Cia., a temporary permit to construct,
maintain and operate private fixed, aeronautical, aeronautical fixed,
aircraft, land mobile/portable, based, land mobile/portable, coast,
ship, survival craft, radio determination and radio beacon stations for
the reception and transmission of wireless messages in the
Philippines."
Sec. 2. Section one of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. There is hereby granted to A. Soriano y
Cia., successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, maintain
and operate in such places in the Philippines where it operates or
transacts its business or renders its services, subject to the approval
of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications or any licensing
authority, private fixed, aeronautical, aeronautical fixed, aircraft,
land mobile/portable, based, land mobile/portable, coast, ship,
survival craft, radio determination and radio beacon stations for the
reception and/or transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy
or radiotelephony, inclusive of but not limited to facsimile,
radioteletype, nationally and/or internationally, each station to be
provided with radio transmitting equipment and/or radio receiving
equipment, as necessary."
Sec. 3. Section two of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. This temporary permit shall continue to be
in force during the time that the grantee successors or assigns,
conducts its business or services at the places selected by the grantee
but in no case to go beyond July four, nineteen hundred seventy-four,
and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void
unless the construction, installation of at least two radio stations be
begun within two years from the date of the approval of this Act."
Sec. 4. Section three of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 3. The grantee, successors or assigns, shall
not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the
Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary
permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, install,
maintain and operate its radio stations herein granted at the places
above-mentioned for the primary purpose of promoting and protecting the
business and other interests of the grantee."
Sec. 5. Section four of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 4. No fees shall be charged by the grantee as
the radio station that may be established by virtue of this Act shall
engage in communications regarding the grantee's business interests
only."
Sec. 6. Section eight of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 8. The grantee, successors or assigns, is
authorized to operate its radio stations herein granted in the very low
frequency, low frequency, medium frequency, high frequency, very high
frequency, ultra high frequency, super high frequency, and extreme high
frequency that may be assigned to it by the Secretary of Public Works
and Communications, or by any licensing authority."
Sec. 7. The same Act is further amended by adding
after Section ten thereof the following new sections to read as
follows:
"Sec. 11. The President of the Philippines shall have
the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed
point-to-point and private coastal radio stations or any of them on
lands of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.
"Sec. 12. In the event of any individual, partnership
or corporation receiving from the Congress a similar permit in which
there shall be any term or terms more favorable than those herein
granted, then such term or terms shall ipso facto become part of the
terms hereof and shall operate equally in favor of the grantee as in
the case of said individual, partnership or corporation."
Sec. 8. Section eleven of the same Act is hereby
redesignated as Section thirteen thereof.
Sec. 9. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 15, 1968
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