REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5556 - AN
ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FORTY-FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY BY
ALLOWING THE GRANTEE TO OPERATE RADIO BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION
STATIONS FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES
Section 1. The title of Republic Act Numbered Forty-four
hundred and eighty is amended to read as follows:
"An Act granting the National Council of Churches in the Philippines a
franchise to construct, operate and maintain radio broadcasting and
television stations in the Philippines and to install, operate and
maintain commercial base and land mobile stations and fixed
point-to-point radiotelephone stations."
Sec. 2. Section one of the Act is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the
Constitution as well as Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred
forty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the regulation of radio
stations and radio communications in the Philippine Islands, and for
other purposes"; Act Numbered Three thousand nine hundred ninety-seven
known as the Radio Broadcasting Law; Commonwealth Act Numbered One
hundred forty-six, known as the Public Service Act, and their
amendments, and other applicable laws not inconsistent with this Act,
the National Council of Churches in the Philippines is hereby granted a
franchise to construct, maintain and operate for commercial, religious,
educational and cultural purposes and in the public interest, radio
broadcasting and television stations in the Philippines with such
corresponding base and land mobile stations and fixed point-to-point
radiotelephone stations as shall provide efficient and satisfactory
broadcast operations of this stations."
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969.
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