REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4133 - AN ACT TO
AMEND SECTIONS ONE, TWO, THREE AND FOUR OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FIVE
HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO
Section 1. Section s one, two, three and four of Republic Act
Numbered Five hundred fifty-two, entitled "An Act granting to the
Elizalde & Co., Inc., a temporary permit to construct, install,
establish and operate private fixed point-to-point and private coastal
radio stations for the reception and transmission of radio
communications within the Philippines," are amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. There is hereby granted and conceded to
Elizalde & Co., Inc., its successors or assigns, the right and
privilege of constructing, installing, establishing and operating in
the Philippines and at such places as the said company may select,
subject to the approval of the Department Secretary under whose
jurisdiction the Radio Control Division is functioning, or any
competent authority who is or shall be authorized now or in the future,
to give said approval, such private fixed point-to-point and private
coastal radio stations, as well as aeronautical and base stations for
new operations and associated companies, land mobile stations, aircraft
stations, ship stations and communications from land to land; land base
to land mobile, ship or aircraft; aircraft to land mobile, ship or
aircraft stations for the reception and transmission of wireless
messages on radio telegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to consist
of least two radio apparatus comprising of a receiving and sending
radio apparatus; and such devices as the grantee may decide to use to
preserve the secrecy of communications, provided that such devices meet
with the approval of the Department Secretary under whose jurisdiction
the Radio Control Division is functioning. Said grantee is authorized
to use any combination of these facilities for the efficiency and
safety of its operations.
"Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have
the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed
point-to-point and private coastal radio stations, as well as
aeronautical and base stations for new operations and associated
companies, land mobile stations aircraft stations and ship stations or
any of them in the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.
"Sec. 3. 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 made upon
the express condition that the same shall be void unless the
construction of at least one of said stations be begun within one year
from date of approval of this Act and be completed within two years
from said date.
"Sec. 4. Elizalde & Co., Inc., 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,
establish and operate private fixed point-to-point and private coastal
radio stations, as well as aeronautical and base stations for new
operations and associated companies, land mobile stations, aircraft
stations and ship stations and communications from land to land; land
base to land mobile, ship or aircraft; land mobile to land mobile, ship
or aircraft; ship to land mobile, ship or aircraft; aircraft to land
mobile, ship or aircraft stations, in places within the Philippines as
the interest of the company and of its trade and business may justify."
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 20, 1964
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