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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1538
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1538 -
PROVIDING FOR MICROFILMING OF PAID TREASURY WARRANTS AND CHECKS
CHARGEABLE AGAINST TREASURY CHECKING ACCOUNT FOR AGENCIES (TCAA), AND
THE DISPOSAL OF THEIR ORIGINALS
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WHEREAS,
under item No. 4 of General Records Schedule 3, General Circular No. 4.
of the Secretary of General Services, dated October 11, 1963, it
provides that Treasury Warrants shall be disposed of ten years after
post audit, provided they are not needed for pending civil, criminal or
administrative proceedings; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, past experience has shown that compliance with the required
ten years retention period results in the accumulation of large number
of paid Treasury Warrants and PNB and PVB Checks chargeable against
Treasury Checking Account for Agencies (TCAA) and the Bureau of the
Treasury which is charged with the function of storing these documents
may find itself continually saddled with storage and maintenance
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WHEREAS, there is a felt need to decongest the existing storage
facilities for these treasury warrants and checks issued by the
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WHEREAS, there is also a need to preserve the evidentiary value of
these paid treasury warrants and TCAA checks as they may be the subject
of present or future investigation and litigation.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of
the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the
Constitution, do hereby order and decree:cralaw:red
Section 1. Paid treasury warrants as well as PNB and
PVB checks chargeable against Treasury Checking Account for Agencies
(TCAA) that are not needed for pending civil, criminal or
administrative proceedings shall be microfilmed at the earliest
possible time and that their originals disposed off after three years
from the date they were paid; Provided, That notwithstanding any law to
the contrary, microfilm-copies of treasury warrants and TCAA checks,
duly certified as such the Treasurer of the Philippines or his
representative, shall have the same evidentiary value as the originals
and shall be admissible as evidence in all legal proceedings.
Section 2. All laws, circulars, orders, rules and
regulations or any and all portions thereof that are inconsistent
herewith are hereby repealed. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 3. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-eight.
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