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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 439 |
Chairman, Executive Committee
of the National Security Council
Camp E. Aguinaldo, Quezon City
The term "Public order", as herein used, shall include specifically, but not limited to (1) preventing the public exhibition of any film or live show in any theater, stage or television; (2) removal of any objectionable parts of any film; and/or (3) prohibiting or stopping the publication and distribution of any printed material when in the determination of that Executive Committee, such film, live show or printed material or any part thereof is offensive to public morals or the high standard of decency under the New Society, it being hereby understood that this authority of the Executive Committee shall prevail over the determination/decision on the same matter(s) by any other office or agency of the Government.
In carrying out the foregoing order, you are hereby also directed to see to it that reasonable means are employed by you and your men and that injury to persons and property shall be avoided.
In the implementation of this Letter of Instructions, the Secretary of National Defense, as Chairman, Executive Committee of the National Security Council, is hereby authorized to issue the necessary rules and regulations for its effective implementation.
Done in the city of Manila, this 23rd day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.
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