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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1730
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1730 -
DECLARING THE SYNDICATED PRINTING, MANUFACTURE, DISTRIBUTION,
POSSESSION OR USE OF FAKE OFFICIAL BUREAU OF LAND TRANSPORTATION FORMS,
DOCUMENTS, PLATES AND STICKERS AS OFFENSES INVOLVING ECONOMIC SABOTAGE
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WHEREAS,
there is an urgent and imperative need to safeguard the interest of the
general public and the government, particularly the Bureau of Land
Transportation, against the syndicated or highly organized operations
of unscrupulous persons engaged in the illegal printing, manufacture
and/or distribution of or mere possession or use of fake Bureau of Land
Transportation accountable forms and documents and motor vehicle number
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WHEREAS, these nefarious and illegal operations have already resulted
in the loss of considerable government revenues; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the commission of these offenses have placed in great
disadvantage the current program of the Bureau of Land Transportation
in upgrading the quality of drivers and accounting of motor vehicles
operating along the public highways; and
WHEREAS, the ordinary civil courts and legal procedures are apparently
hard up in coping with and containing these syndicates and/or their
activities.
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. Any provision of law to the contrary
notwithstanding, the illegal printing, manufacture, distribution and/or
use of fake official Bureau of Land Transportation accountable forms
and documents and of motor vehicle number plates and stickers shall be
considered as offenses constituting economic sabotage.
Section 2. The trial and adjudication of these
offenses are hereby declared to be within the exclusive jurisdiction of
the appropriate military tribunals or commissions.
Section 3. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 7th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty.
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