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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 575
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 575 -
CREATING AND ESTABLISHING THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL PETROLEUM CENTER AS
AN INTEGRAL UNIT OF THE PETROLEUM BOARD, DEFINING ITS ORGANIZATION,
POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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WHEREAS,
under Presidential Decree No. 87, otherwise known as the "Oil
Exploration and Development Act of 1972" issued on December 31, 1972,
it is the declared policy of the State to hasten the discovery and
development of the country's indigenous petroleum resources;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the attainment of this desired objective is unnecessarily
hampered by an acute shortage of Filipino technical personnel in the
sciences related to petroleum exploration and development, the absence
of an integrated data and information on the country's petroleum
potentials and resources, and the lack of local petroleum laboratories
to perform geological and geographical data processing and
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WHEREAS, it has become imperative to establish a governmental unit in
the Petroleum Board which will have ample powers to attain the above
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
decree, order and make part of the law of the land the following
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Section 1. There is hereby established a Philippine
National Petroleum Center hereinafter referred to as the Center,
constituting an integral unit of the Petroleum Board.
Section 2. The Center shall have the following
purposes: (a) to ensure the country of a stead stream of competent
technical personnel; (b) to centralize all data and information on the
country's petroleum resources; (c) to provide supportive technical
services to all oil exploration ventures through complete and modern
facilities.
Section 3. The Center may set up various divisions
within its organizational structure, as it may deem necessary, such as
a Petroleum Institute, a Petroleum Laboratory and a Petroleum Data
Bank.
Section 4. The Center shall be under the
administrative control and supervision of the Petroleum Board which
such officers and personnel or employees as the Petroleum Board may
appoint. Their compensation, tenure of office and other terms and
conditions relative to their appointment shall be determined by the
Petroleum Board.
Section 5. The positions in the Center of officers
and employees shall be considered technical and highly confidential and
as only may be on a part-time basis and shall be exempt from the
requirements and restrictions of the Civil Service Law, the Retirement
Law, Section 29 of the Revised Administrative Code and the laws, rules
and regulations on position classification and salary standardization:
Provided, That any retiree employed in the center shall not be required
to reimburse or refund any gratuity received from the Government nor
shall any pension or annuity to which he is entitled be suspended or
reduced on account of his employment in the Center.
Section 6. In order for the support of the Center,
the fees collected by the Petroleum Board on service contracts or other
agreements entered into pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 87,
including the signature bonuses paid thereunder shall henceforth
receipted for separately as part of a special fund to be known as the
"Philippine National Petroleum Center Fund" and shall be set aside for
the exclusive use of the Center in accordance with this decree.
Section 7. The Center shall be the sole central
repository of all data and information on the country's petroleum
potentials and resources. For this purpose, it shall have the power to
require reports and data from service contractors under Presidential
Decree No. 87, concessionaires under Republic Act No. 387, also known
as the Petroleum Act of 1949, and such other oil exploration and
development companies that may explore, exploit or develop petroleum
resources in the Philippines. All such data now in the possession or
custody of any instrumentality or agency of the Government shall be
turned over to the Center within thirty (30) days after the effectivity
of this decree.
Section 8. Other Government offices and other
Government-owned or controlled corporations shall extend whatever
assistance may be needed by the Center, including the detail of their
officials and employees under arrangements satisfactory to the Center
and the other Government office or corporation concerned. Such
personnel may be given honorarium by the Center, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Section 9. All acts, or parts of acts, decrees,
general orders, executive orders, proclamations, rules and regulations
inconsistent herewith are repealed or modified accordingly.
Section 10. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 8th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-four.
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