REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3446 - AN ACT TO
AMEND REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE, ENTITLED "AN ACT
GRANTING THE MANILA TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., A TEMPORARY PERMIT
TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT AND
LAND MOBILE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO
COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES"
Section 1. Section s one, two, three and eight of Republic Act
Numbered Five hundred fifty-three are amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. There is hereby granted to the Manila
Times Publishing Company, Inc., its successors or assigns, a temporary
permit to construct, maintain and operate in the Philippines, at such
places as the said company may select, subject to the approval of the
Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed
point-to-point, private coastal, land-based and land mobile radio
stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on
radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to be provided with a
radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus.
"Sec. 2. This temporary permit shall continue to be
in force during the time that the government has not established
similar service at the places selected by the grantee, and is granted
upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the
construction or installation of at least one station be begun within
two years from the date of approval of this Act and be completed within
two years from said date.
"Sec. 3. The grantee, its successors or assigns,
shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the
Philippines without further special assent of the Congress of the
Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary
permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, install,
maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point, private coastal
land-based and land mobile radio stations in such places within the
Philippines as the interest of the grantee may justify, and to enable
it to better serve the public in the dissemination of news and events
of national interest.
"Sec. 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, is
authorized to operate its private fixed point-to-point, private
coastal, land-based and land mobile radio stations in the medium
frequency, high frequency, and very high frequency that may be assigned
to it, by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications."
Sec. 2. The title of the same Act is also amended to
read as follows:
"An Act granting the Manila Times Publishing Company, Inc., a temporary
permit to construct, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point,
private coastal, land-based and land mobile radio stations for the
reception and transmission of radio communications within the
Philippines."
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted, without Executive
approval, June 18, 1961.
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