REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5092 - AN ACT TO
PROMOTE AND REGULATE THE EXPLORATION, DEVELOPMENT, EXPLOITATION AND
UTILIZATION OF GEOTHERMAL ENERGY, NATURAL GAS AND METHANE GAS; TO
ENCOURAGE ITS CONSERVATION; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Section 1. Short title of Act. — The short title of this Act
shall be "Geothermal Energy, Natural Gas and Methane Gas Law."
Sec. 2. Definition of terms. — When used in this
Act, the following terms shall, unless the context otherwise indicates,
have the following respective meanings:
(a) "Act" means this "Geothermal Energy, Natural Gas
and Methane Gas Law."
(b) "Bore" means any well, hole, pipe, or excavation
of any kind which is bored, drilled, sunk or made in the ground for the
purpose of investigating, prospecting, obtaining, or producing
geothermal energy, natural gas and methane gas, or which taps or is
likely to tap geothermal energy, natural gas and methane gas and
includes any hole in the ground which taps geothermal energy, natural
gas and methane gas.
(c) "Geothermal energy" means energy derived or
derivable from and produced within the earth by natural heat
phenomenon: and includes all steam, and water vapor, and every mixture
of all or any of them that has been heated by natural underground
energy, and every kind of matter derived from a bore and for the time
being with or in any such stead, water, water vapor, or mixture.
(d) "Government" means the Government of the
Philippines.
(e) "State" means the Republic of the
Philippines.
(f) "Person" includes a natural person, corporation,
or partnership.
Sec. 3. State ownership. — All geothermal sources
or occurrences of geothermal energy, natural gas and methane gas in
public and/or private lands in the Philippines, whether found in, on or
under the surface of dry lands, creeks, rivers, lakes, or other
submerged lands within the territorial waters of the Philippines belong
to the State, inalienable and imprescriptible and their exploration
for, tapping and utilization shall be governed by the provisions of
this Act.
Sec. 4. Title to land. — The ownership or the
right to the use of lands for agricultural, industrial, commercial,
residential, mining, petroleum, or for any other purposes other than
for the exploration, tapping or use of geothermal energy, natural gas
and methane gas, does not include ownership of, nor the right to
explore for, tap, or utilize the geothermal energy, natural gas and
methane gas in, on or under the surface of such land.
Sec. 5. Granting of geothermal energy, natural gas
and methane gas rights. — The right to explore for, tap, or utilize
geothermal energy, natural gas and methane gas may be obtained and
exercised only by means of permits and/or leases granted to duly
qualified persons in accordance with the provisions of this Act:
Provided, That no such permit shall be required if the exploration is
undertaken by the owner of the land himself or by his agent: Provided,
further, That where geothermal energy, natural gas and methane gas is
already being used for any domestic purpose whatever (including
cooking, heating, washing, and bathing) at the time this Act takes
effect, the user thereof may continue using the same to similar or
lesser extent without the need of securing a permit or lease under this
Act unless the Director of Mines, having regard to the public interest,
otherwise directs.
The Government reserves the right to undertake the exploration for,
tapping, or utilization of geothermal energy, natural gas and methane
gas either by itself or through its instrumentalities, or through
competent persons qualified to undertake such work as independent
contractor or contractors.
Sec. 6. Qualifications of applicants. — Applicants
for permits or leases under this Act shall have the following
qualifications:
In case of an individual, he shall be a citizen of the Philippines, be
of legal age, and have the capacity to contract obligations.
In case of an association of individuals, it shall either a partnership
or a corporation duly organized and constituted under the laws of the
Philippines, at least sixty per centum of the capital of which is and
shall at all times be owned and held by citizens of the Philippines.
Any applicant shall present evidence showing that sufficient finance,
organization, resources, technical competence, skills, and experience
necessary to conduct the operations to be undertaken under the permit
and/or lease being applied for, in a manner which is in accordance with
the best method known to the industry, are available to the applicant.
Sec. 7. Lands covered by permits, leases are
subject to public easements. — All lands covered by permits and/or
leases granted under this Act shall be subject to public easements
established or recognized by existing or future laws.
Sec. 8. Operations of permittees/lessees subject
to mining rights. — The operations of permittees and/or lessees under
the provisions of this Act shall be subject to existing mining or
petroleum rights, grants, permits, leases, and concessions and the same
shall not adversely affect the operations of the latter. Any question
in this regard shall be decided and settled by the Director of Mines.
Sec. 9. Rights to enter private land. — Holders of
permits and/or leases granted under the provisions of this Act, their
men, contractors or operators, upon written notice sent to the owner on
the land at least ten days in advance, are granted the right to enter
and re-enter from time to time upon private lands covered by their
permits and/or leases for the purpose of conducting geological and/or
geophysical studies, make any bore therein, with the right to use all
instruments and apparatus necessary to carry out such studies, subject
to the obligations to indemnify the owner or legal occupant of the land
for all material damage suffered by the property, its annexes or
appurtenances as a result of such studies: Provided, That in no case
shall the occupancy of private buildings, yards or gardens be
authorized against the will of their owner.
In the event the right granted in this section shall be denied by the
owner of the private land or by its legal occupant, the permittee
and/or lessee may apply for and, upon posting such bond as may be fixed
and approved by the municipal court of the municipality where the land
is situated, the court shall issue an order allowing such right to
enter pending the final determination of the proper amount that shall
be paid by the permittee and/or lessee to the land-owner or legal
occupant.
SECTION 10. Easements over private land. — When
easements of temporary or permanent occupancy over private lands are
needed by a permittee or lessee for the purpose of carrying out any
works essential to his operations under the provisions of this Act, he
may enter into necessary agreement with the owner or legal occupant of
such private land. If no agreement can be reached, or if the owner or
legal occupant refuses to grant such easement, or in general, when any
obstacle of whatever nature exists to the immediate and certain
acquisition of the necessary surface area or of any right indispensable
to the permittee or lessee for the purpose of concession, the municipal
court of the municipality where the land is situated shall, upon
application of the permittee or lessee and posting of the necessary
bond, grant to the said, permittee or lessee authority to use and
occupy the land needed by him in his operations, pending final
determination of the case which shall include among others the
reasonable value or rental of the land to be occupied and the
compensation for any resulting damage that the land-owner or legal
occupant may suffer as a result of such occupation.
When the occupation of a private land is needed by the permittee or
lessee in connection with his permit and/or ease granted in this Act
for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, operating, and drilling
bores, tanks, reservoirs, waterways, pipelines, roads, railroads,
tramlines, telephone and telegraph lines; airfields, radio stations,
powerhouses, transmission lines, pumping stations, wharves, piers and
terminals, which are hereby declared to be for public use or benefit,
the right of eminent domain may be exercised by the Government through
the permittee or lessee, in accordance with the applicable laws on the
matter.
In all cases, whether it be an order of the court or a voluntary
agreement between the permittee and/or lessee and the private
landowner, as referred to in this section, a copy of such order or
agreement shall be furnished to the Director of Mines.
For the purpose of this section the necessity of the work will presumed
in the cases of bore drilling and auxiliary works, construction of
pipelines, tanks, pumping plants, power systems, warehouses, shops, and
means of transport and communication.
SECTION 11. Right to enter public land and easement
over the same. — Except lands covered by armed forces reservations, all
public lands may be entered into by the holder of a permit and/or lease
issued under this Act if the same is covered by said permit and/or
lease.
When easement or right of temporary or permanent occupancy over said
public land is needed by said holder of a permit and/or lease for the
purpose of carrying any work essential to his operations under this
Act, except in areas covered by military reservation, such right may be
granted by the Director of Mines with due regard to prior rights of
third parties and to the purpose for which the reservation had been
established.
The presumption of necessity stated in Section ten applies likewise in
this case.
SECTION 12. Application for permit. — Application for
permit shall be accompanied by a plan showing the bearings and
distances of the boundaries and latitude and longitude to the nearest
second of the corner 1. It shall be filed with the Director of Mines
who shall examine an act upon the same as well as upon the
qualification, and authorize the publication of a notice thereof at
least once a week for three consecutive weeks in the Official Gazette
and in a newspaper of general circulation published in English in the
City of Manila, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary.
At any time during the period of publication of said notice, an adverse
claim stating the nature and grounds thereof, may be filed with the
Director of Mines. If no adverse claim is filed within the said period
of publication, it shall be conclusively presumed that no such adverse
claims exists and thereafter no adverse claim for third parties shall
be heard; and the permit shall be issued by the Director of Mines for
the Republic of the Philippines which shall state the principal rights
and obligations of the permittee.
The applicant for a permit should prosecute his application with due
diligence by seeing to it that his application is in order and that he
has submitted satisfactory evidence showing that he possesses the
qualifications required by law and regulations. In case of conflict of
application for permit under the provisions of this Act, priority of
the filing of application shall determine as to who has the
preferential right, provided that his application is put in order and
satisfactory evidence of the required qualifications is submitted
within the period provided for by the regulations.
Any adverse claim filed during the period of publication of the notice
shall be decided by the Director of Mines.
SECTION 13. Size and shape of permit areas. — A
permit shall be granted in blocks rectangular in shape except when
allowed by the Director of Mines in cases where it is contiguous with
the seas, bays, lakes or with other permits or leases already granted;
as much as possible, its longer dimension shall not be more than five
times its shorter dimension. Each permit area shall not be more than
five thousand hectares.
No person shall acquire more than ten permits in the whole territory of
the Philippines.
SECTION 14. Rights conveyed under a permit. — The
permit conveys upon the holder thereof, his heirs and assigns, from the
date of its granting and during its term and any extension thereof, the
exclusive right to explore the block covered, to do geological and
physical work, to conduct drilling operations, and to do such other
work related to explorations or that has for its object the discovery
of geothermal energy, natural gas or methane gas. The actual production
and utilization of any geothermal energy, natural gas or methane gas
that may be discovered is not included in the right granted under a
permit.
SECTION 15. Exploration work obligations. — With the
application for permit and before the start of each calendar year
thereafter during the life of the permit, the applicant/permittee shall
submit to the Director of Mines a program of exploration work to be
undertaken by him within his permit during the year.
Beginning from the date of the granting of the permit and up to the
first anniversary date thereof and every permit year thereafter during
the life of the permit, he is obligated to spend in the direct
prosecution of exploration work within his permit such as topographical
or geological reconnaissance or detailed survey, mapping or cross
sectioning, geophysical surveys, core or exploratory drilling, or any
combination of said work, not less than two pesos per hectare per year
or fraction thereof: Provided, That in no case shall the total amount
for each permit be less than one thousand pesos a year: Provided,
further, That for purposes of renewal of the permit necessary drilling
as required in Section sixteen hereof, shall have been conducted
therein.
The permittee or lessee shall give satisfactory evidence to the
Government of such expenditures duly supported and justified by
technical report or reports prepared in accordance with the regulations
which shall be submitted within ninety days after the end of the
corresponding calendar year.
An amount actually spent for the exploration work in excess of any
minimum amount required for any year and duly approved by the Bureau of
Mines may be carried forward to exploration work obligations required
for the succeeding years: Provided, That such excess expenditures may
not be carried forward to any period of renewal: Provided, however,
That should there be any unspent balance of the required work
obligations for any year, the same shall be forfeited in favor of the
Bureau of Mines and shall form part of its Mines special
Fund.
Failure to comply with the minimum work obligations in any one year as
hereinabove provided or to submit the required technical report within
the period given, shall be sufficient cause for the cancellation of the
permit by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources upon
recommendation of the Director of Mines and termination of the right of
permittee without prejudice to collecting from the permittee whatever
difference their is between the minimum amount required and that
actually spent for any year. An no new or additional areas and/or
rights under this Act shall be granted to a permittee who has thus
failed to comply with his minimum work obligation in any of his
subsisting permit and/or lease under this Act until after he shall have
corrected his defaults.
SECTION 16. Term of permit. — The initial term of a
permit shall not be more than three years counted from the date of its
issuance: Provided, That if the permittee has drilled a well or wells
within the area covered by his permit at any time during the initial
term with a total footage of not less than one thousand feet and has
complied with the provisions of this Act and the regulations and with
the terms of the permit, the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural
Resources may grant an extension thereof for a term of two years, for
its entire area or for any part thereof, upon application made prior to
the expiration of the original term of the permit: Provided, further,
That if during the term of the first extension the permittee has also
drilled a well or wells within the area covered by the permit with a
total footage of two thousand feet and has complied with the provisions
of this Act and the regulations and with the terms and conditions of
the permit, the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, upon
the application of the concessionaire made prior to the expiration of
the first extension of the said permit, may grant an extension thereof
for its entire area or part thereof, for another term of two years. No
further extension of any permit shall be granted at the end of seven
years from date of its original issuance: Provided, That should the
permittee be still interested in the area and he had drilled a well or
wells therein during the period of the second renewal with the required
total footage and has complied with the provisions of this Act and the
regulations and with the terms and conditions of the permit, he may, if
he is qualified to do so, file an application for a permit over the
same area or portion thereof, which shall be treated as any other new
application for permit.
SECTION 17. Application for lease. — If and when a
discovery of geothermal energy, natural gas and methane gas has been
made by a holder of a permit and he has determined that the same is of
commercial value and that he is ready to produce and utilize the same
or put it into commercial use, he may at any time during the life of
his permit and subject to the limitation in Section eighteen of this
Act, apply for a lease of the area or portion covered by his permit by
filing an application with the Director of Mines which shall be
accompanied by a plan prepared from an accurate transit and tape survey
of the area indicating one corner of a claim tied by bearing and
distance to a recognized bench mark, permanent monument, or other
registered points, and approved by the Director of Mines.
If and when the application for lease is found in order, the condition
for the granting of the lease present and applicant, qualified, the
Director of Mines shall grant the lease to the applicant for the
Republic of the Philippines stating therein the principal rights and
obligations of the lessee.
SECTION 18. Size and shape of the lease area. — The
area that may be applied for lease shall be not more than one-half of
the original area covered by the permit and shall be in block
rectangular in shape, except when allowed by the Secretary of
Agriculture and Natural Resources in cases where it is contiguous with
seas, bays and lakes and with other existing concessions, with its
longer dimension not more than five times its shorter dimension. No
person shall be allowed to hold more than twenty-five thousand hectares
under lease in the whole territory of the Philippines.
SECTION 19. Rights conveyed under lease. — The
lessee, his heirs and assigns have the exclusive right, under the term
of the lease, to drill within the boundaries projected vertically
downward of the area covered by his lease to tap and utilize the
geothermal energy, natural gas and methane gas existing therein and/or
to extract therefrom any kind of matter derived from a bore and for the
time being with or any steam, water, water vapor or mixture and to
process and market the same, subject to the provisions of this Act and
the regulations that may be issued by the Secretary of Agriculture and
Natural Resources regarding conservation and prevention of waste,
prevention of water and air pollution, safety and health, and any other
pertinent matter.
Sec. 20. Minerals mixed with steam. — Any mineral
that may be found in or mixed with steam, water vapor, or mixture
thereof that has been heated by natural underground energy may be
separated therefrom and produce without the need of coming under the
provisions of the Mining Act, if such separation and production of the
mineral is only incidental to or a by-product of the production and
utilization for commercial purposes of the geothermal energy, natural
gas and methane gas.
Sec. 21. Work obligations of lessee. — With the
application for lease and before the beginning of each calendar year
during the life of the lease, the applicant or lessee shall submit to
the Director of Mines, a program of work proposed to be undertaken by
him within the lease during that year.
The lessee shall commence to tap and utilize the geothermal energy,
natural gas and methane gas discovered within one year from the date
the lease is granted and shall continue such tapping and utilization
until at least the commercial requirement for such energy as determined
by the lessee after consultation with the Director of Mines is met:
Provided, That the extent of such tapping and utilization is in
accordance with good engineering practice: Provided, further, That
unreasonable suspension or limitation of such production or utilization
shall be a cause for cancellation of the lease by the Director of
Mines.
Sec. 22. Annual tax. — No annual tax on the lease
shall be due until the lessee has commenced commercial operation, but
thereafter, a tax of two pesos per hectare per year or fraction thereof
shall be due and payable to the government.
Sec. 23. Term of lease. — The term of lease shall
not exceed twenty- five years counted from the date of its issuance
renewable for another period not to exceed twenty-five years at the
option of and upon application of the lessee made prior to the
expiration of the original term.
Sec. 24. Royalty. — Geothermal energy, natural gas
and methane gas that may be produced and utilized for commercial
purposes shall be subject to the payment of royalty to the Government
at the rate of one and one-half per centum of the market value of the
energy or gas so produced and utilized.
Sec. 25. Renunciation of areas covered by permit
and/or lease. — The holder of a permit and/or lease may, at any time
during the existence of the permit and/or lease, renounce the whole or
any part of the total area covered thereby.
Sec. 26. Application fee. — Every application
shall be accompanied with an application fee of five hundred pesos for
a permit and one thousand pesos for a lease. In the event that no
corresponding permit to lease is granted, the sum paid shall be
returned to the applicant less such amount of expenses incurred by the
Government in connection with the processing of said application in
accordance with the regulations. Said fees shall form part of the trust
fund of the Bureau of Mines.
Sec. 27. Bond for performance. — Upon the issuance
of a permit and/or lease, the permittee and/or lessee shall post a bond
in favor of the government in a sum to be fixed by the regulations and
with surety or sureties satisfactory to the Secretary of Agriculture
and Natural Resources conditioned upon the faithful performance by the
permittee and/or lessee of all his obligations under the permit and/or
lease to be issued to him.
Sec. 28. Employment of Filipinos. — Permittees
and/or lessees and their contractors or operators are obligated to give
preference to Philippine citizens in all types of employment within the
country, insofar as such citizens are qualified to perform the
corresponding work with reasonable efficiency and without hazard to the
safety of the operations; and are obligated likewise to maintain
effective programs of training and advancement commensurate with the
demonstrated abilities of such citizens to perform satisfactorily the
various types of operations involved. The permittees and/or lessees,
however, shall not be hindered from using employees of their own
selection and without restriction for executive or technical work
which; in their judgment, and with the approval of the Director of
Mines, requires highly specialized training or long experience.
Each permittee and/or lessee and their contractors or operators shall
submit to the Government annual report giving statistical and
descriptive information relevant to the provisions of this section as
provided in the regulations, and shall be obligated to demonstrate to
the satisfaction of the Director of Mines upon request, that these
provisions are being complied with. In the event that in the opinion of
the Director of Mines, such provisions are not complied with, he is
empowered to require the permittee and/or lessee to take such steps as
may be necessary to effect such compliance, without prejudice, however,
to the right of the permittee and/ or lessee under the exception
provided in the last sentence of the first paragraph of this section.
Sec. 29. Submission of information and reports by
permittee and/or lessee. — Holders of a permit and/or lease issued
under this Act shall submit to the Director of Mines all information
that the latter may require from time to time particularly but not
limited to, reports on the results of geological and geophysical
examination, including a complete history on its well formation
records, electric logs, and result of all tests production reports
showing all pertinent production data, etc., in the form and manner and
at intervals prescribed by the regulations.
Sec. 30. Inspection of operations and examination
of books and accounts. — The Director of Mines or his representatives
shall have authority to inspect any operations of the permittee and/or
lessee at all reasonable times and to examine the records of said
operations as well as all the books and accounts pertaining thereto or
related to payment of taxes and royalties under this Act and to carry
out any other inspection authorized by law or regulations.
The permittee and/or lessee shall furnish to said official or his
representative all technical and actual data specified in the
regulations and shall give them authority and ample facilities and
assistance to discharge their duties as such.
For the purpose of enabling proper examination as provided for in this
section, the permittee and/or lessee is obligated to retain within the
country all original records or original carbon copies thereof which
are essential for the purpose of determining the amount of taxes and
royalties due to the Government.
Sec. 31. Taxes and customs duties. — During the
first five-year period following the granting of any lease, the
permittee and/or lessee may import, free of customs and tariff duties,
compensating tax, and such other taxes that may be imposed on
importation, such equipment, machineries, instruments, accessories and
spare parts, chemicals and supplies as may be certified by the Director
of Mines to be essential to the operations of the permittee and/or
lessee.
These equipment, machineries, instruments, accessories and spare parts,
chemicals and supplies, when no longer needed in the operation of the
permittee and/or lessee, may be exported or returned to point of origin
without being subject to any export tax: Provided, That when such
equipment, machineries, instruments, accessories and spare parts,
chemicals and supplies are subsequently sold to any person not
qualified under this law, the same shall be subject to tax.
No exemption shall be allowed on goods imported by the permittee and/or
lessee for his personal use or that of any other; nor for sale or for
purposes other than for the exploration, for production and utilization
of geothermal energy, natural gas and methane gas, and after any goods
on which exemption has been allowed to be thus used or disposed of the
permittee and/or lessee is obliged to make a report to that effect to
pay such duty or duties as due thereon.
Sec. 32. Work obligations, special taxes and
royalties not to be changed. — Work obligations, special taxes and
royalties which are fixed by the provisions of this Act or by the terms
of the permit and/or lease, are considered as inherent on such permit
and/or lease after they have been granted and shall not be increased or
changed during the life of the permit and/or lease to which they apply;
nor shall any other special taxes or levies be applied to such permit
and/or lease; nor shall the permittee and/or lessee be subject to any
provincial, municipal or other local taxes or levies. All such
permittees and lessees, however, shall be subject to such taxes as are
of general application in addition to taxes and levies specifically
provided in this Act.
Sec. 33. Compulsory collection. — In the event of
failure by a permittee and/or lessee to pay any tax, royalty or unspent
balance on his work obligations, due under the provisions of this Act,
the same shall be subject to surcharge of one per cent a month until
paid and when such failure shall be for a period of six months from the
date when they become due and payable, the Government may resort to
compulsory collection and in accordance with the provisions of the
National Internal Revenue Code.
Sec. 34. Officials in charge and powers and
duties. — The Director of Mines shall be the executive officer charged
with carrying out the provisions of this Act. He shall prescribe rules
and regulations and issue orders which he may find necessary to carry
out the provisions of this Act, which, among others, shall include the
following:
(a) Prescribing any form that may be required for the
purpose of this Act;
(b) Prescribing the financial and technical
qualifications of applicants for permit or lease, and the conditions
upon or subject to which permits or leases, may be applied for, granted
or renewed;
(c) Providing for the keeping of records and
furnishing of information and returns by persons authorized by
permittee and/or lessee and prescribing the nature of records,
information, and returns and the form, manner, and times in or at which
they shall be kept or furnished;
(d) Prescribing the duties of permittees and/or
lessee and the operations to be carried out under said permits or
leases;
(e) Prescribing the qualifications of persons in
charge in making, marking and closing bores and in particular, of
persons employed as bore managers and providing for the examinations of
and grant certificates to qualified persons;
(f) Preventing or abating nuisances in or about bores
and industries using geothermal energy, natural gas and methane gas;
(g) Prescribing safety precautions in the making and
after completion of bores, and the treatment of the ground about any
bore and of water above and below the ground, and preventing waste or
loss of geothermal energy, natural gas and methane gas;
(h) Prescribing drilling machinery, materials and
casts to be used in making of bores and to be available to cope with
any emergency in connection with any bore and prohibiting the use of
other classes thereof;
(i) Prohibiting or regulating the making of bores
near other bores;
(j) Regulating the cessation of boring operations and
the abandonment and closing of bores and prescribing precautions
against loosening the earth in the vicinity of any bore;
(k) Providing for bores to be made with due diligence
and by safe and satisfactory methods.
Sec. 35. Orders, decisions and appeals. — Orders
and decisions of the Director of Mines may be appealed to the Secretary
of Agriculture and Natural Resources within thirty days after receipt
of such order or decision. In case any of the parties concerned should
disagree from the order or decision of the Secretary of Agriculture and
Natural Resources the matter may be taken to the Court of Appeals or to
the Supreme Court, as the case may be, within thirty days from receipt
of such order or decision. Failure to take the necessary appeal within
the period herein prescribed shall render the order or decision final
and binding upon the parties concerned. Findings of facts in the
decision of the Director of Mines when affirmed by the Secretary of
Agriculture and Natural Resources shall be final conclusively, and the
aggrieved party or parties desiring to appeal from such order or
decision shall file in the Supreme Court within the period herein
provided, a petition for review wherein only questions of law may be
raised.
Sec. 36. Transfer and assignment. — Holders of
permits and/or leases under this Act shall not, without previous
written approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources,
transfer or assign, in whole or in part, the rights under permits
and/or leases: Provided, That no such transfer or assignment shall be
made to a person who is not qualified to acquire or hold a permit or
lease under this Act, or who shall hold a total area under permit or
lease, including that to be assigned to him or more than the maximum
areas allowed under this Act.
Sec. 37. Partial invalidity. — If any clause,
sentence, provisions or article of this Act shall be held invalid or
unconstitutional, it shall not affect in anywise the remaining parts of
this Act and such remaining part shall remain in full force and effect.
Sec. 38. Repeal of laws, rules and regulations. —
All Acts, laws, rules and regulations inconsistent with any of the
provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 39. Effective date. — This Act shall take
effect upon its approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 17, 1967
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