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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1982
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1982 -
EXTENDING FRANKING PRIVILEGE TO THE INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT
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WHEREAS, it
is essential to provide the Intermediate Appellate Court with all the
necessary facilities to enable it to discharge its duties and functions
promptly and speedily;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the Intermediate Appellate Court disburses a sizable amount of
its budgetary appropriation for postage stamps for mailing its official
communications and papers; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in order to reduce its expenditures for postage stamps, it is
necessary to extend franking privilege to the Intermediate Appellate
Court.
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. The Intermediate Appellate Court may
transmit thru ordinary mail and/or registered mail with return card,
free of charge, all official communications and papers directly
connected with the conduct of judicial proceedings.
The envelope or wrapper of the privileged mail matter shall bear on the
left upper corner "Intermediate Appellate Court" together with its
address and on the right upper corner, the words: "Private or
unauthorized use to avoid payment of postage is penalized by fine or
imprisonment or both."
Section 2. The Minister of Transportation and
Communications shall, within thirty (30) days from the publication of
this Decree, promulgate the necessary rules and regulations to carry
out the foregoing provisions; Provided, That any person who uses the
privilege granted hereunder for private or unauthorized purposes shall
be punished by a fine of five hundred pesos or imprisonment of not more
than three years, or both, at the discretion of the Court.
Section 3. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 19th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-five.
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