EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 169 - REPEALING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 810, ENTITLED “AN ACT GRANTING THE PHILIPPINE JAI-ALAI AND AMUSEMENT CORPORATIONS A FRANCHISE TO OPERATE, CONSTRUCT AND MAINTAIN A FRONTON FOR BASQUE PELOTA AND SIMILAR GAMES OF SKILL IN THE GREATER MANILA AREA AS AMENDED, AND ACCORDINGLY REVOKING AND CANCELLING THE RECENT PRIVILEGE, AND AUTHORITY GRANTED THEREIN”

WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 810, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 1124, granted the Philippine Jai-Alai and Amusement Corporation or its successors, among others, for a period of twenty-five years from the approval of the Act, extendible for another twenty-five years without the necessity of another franchise the right, privilege and authority to construct, operate and maintain a court for Basque Pelota and hold or conduct Basque Pelota games therein (including the games of pala, raqueta, cestapunta, ramonte and mano) within the greater Manila area, establish branch thereof for booking purposes therein or in any other place within the Philippines upon prior approval by the President with bettings either directly or by means of electric and/or computerized totalizator;

WHEREAS, under Presidential Decree No. 1966, further amended Presidential Decree No. 810, the grantee was authorized to hold or conduct Basque Pelota games (including the games of pala, raqueta, cestapunta, remonte and mano) within Metro Manila, establish branches thereof for booking purposes therein or in any other place within the Philippines, subject to the existing rules and regulations; 

WHEREAS, the grant of the Philippine Jai-Alai and Amusement Corporation or its successors of the right, privilege and authority under Presidential Decree No. 810, as amended, is subject to amendment, alteration or repeal when the common good so requires;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

Section 1. Presidential Decree No. 810, as amended, is hereby repealed. Accordingly, the grant to the Philippine Jai-Alai and Amusement Corporation or its successors of the right, privilege and authority under the aforementioned law, as amended, is hereby revoked and cancelled. 

Sec. 2. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.
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