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REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1545 - AN ACT TO
AMEND REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN, ENTITLED "AN ACT
GRANTING EDUARDO LOPEZ A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND
OPERATE A COMMERCIAL RADIO BROADCASTING STATION IN THE PHILIPPINES |
Section 1.
Sections one, three and six of Republic Act Numbered Five hundred
seventeen are hereby amended, and another section is hereby added
thereto, to read as follows: "Section 1.
Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, as well as of Act
Numbered Three thousand eight hundred forty-six, entitled "An Act
providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications
in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes;" Act Numbered Three
thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven, known as the Radio Broadcasting
Law; Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred forty-six, known as the
Public Service Act, and their amendments, and other applicable laws,
there is hereby granted to Eduardo Lopez, a temporary permit to
construct, maintain and operate, for commercial purposes and in the
public interest, radio broadcasting station in the Philippines:
Provided, That this temporary permit shall be void unless the
construction of the said station be begun within one and a half years
from the approval of said temporary permit: Provided, further, That the
grantee shall provide adequate public service time to enable the
Government, through the station herein authorized, to reach the
population on important public issues; shall assist in the functions of
public information and education; shall conform to the ethics of honest
enterprise; and shall not use said station for the broadcasting of
obscene or indecent language or speech, or for the dissemination of
deliberately false information or willful misrepresentation, or to the
detriment of the public health, or to incite, encourage or assist in
subversive or treasonable acts.
"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.cralaw
"Sec. 3. The grantee shall file a bond in the amount of fifty thousand pesos to guaranty the full compliance and fulfillment of the conditions under which this temporary permit is granted. "Sec. 4. In
the event of any competing individual partnership or corporation
receiving from the Congress a similar temporary permit in which there
shall be any term or terms more favorable than those herein granted or
tending to place the herein grantee at any disadvantage, then such term
or terms shall, ipso facto, become a part of the terms hereof and shall
operate equally in favor of the grantee as in the case of said
competing individual, partnership or corporation.
"Sec. 5. In
the event the Government should desire to maintain and operate for
itself the radio broadcasting station herein authorized, the grantee
shall turn over such station to the Government with all the serviceable
equipment therein, at cost, less reasonable depreciation.cralaw
"Sec. 6. The grantee shall not require any previous censorship of any speech, play or other matter to be broadcast from its stations; but if any such speech, play or other matter should constitute a violation of the law or infringement of a private right, the grantee shall be free from any liability, civil or criminal, for such speech, play or other matter: Provided, That the grantee, during any broadcast may cut off from ther the speech, play or other matter being broadcast if the tendency thereof is to propose and/or incite treason, rebellion or sedition, or the language used therein or the theme thereof is indecent or immoral." Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.cralaw Approved: June 16, 1956 |
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