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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1343
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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1343 -
AMENDING PARAGRAPH (iii) (1), Sec. 178 OF ELECTION CODE
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WHEREAS,
paragraph (iii) (1), Sec. 178 of the 1978 Election Code penalizes any
person selling, furnishing, offering or taking intoxicating liquor two
days immediately preceding election day and on election day;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, representations have been made in behalf of hotels and other
establishments catering to foreign tourist to exempt them from the
liquor ban in view of its adverse effects on the development and
promotion of tourism.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
decree:cralaw:red
Section 1. Paragraph (iii) (1), Sec. 178 of the 1978
Election Code amended. — Paragraph (iii) (1), Sec. 178 of the 1978
Election Code is hereby amended to read as follows: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"(iii) (1) Any person who sells, furnishes, offers
or takes intoxicating liquor on the days fixed by law for registration
of voters in the voting centers, or on any of the two days immediately
preceding election day, or on election day. HOTELS AND OTHER
ESTABLISHMENTS DULY ACCREDITED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM AS
TOURIST-ORIENTED AND HABITUALLY IN THE BUSINESS OF CATERING TO FOREIGN
TOURIST MAY, HOWEVER, BE EXEMPTED FOR JUSTIFIABLE REASONS FROM THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS PARAGRAPH UPON PRIOR AUTHORITY OF THE COMMISSION."
Section 2. Effectivity. — This decree shall take
effect immediately. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 4th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-eight.
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