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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 965
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 965 - A
DECREE REQUIRING APPLICANT FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS
ON FAMILY PLANNING AND RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD
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WHEREAS,
the Government has adopted a national population program to achieve and
maintain levels of population most conducive to the national welfare;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, an essential element of the population program is to inform
and instruct the people on family planning and responsible parenthood;
and
WHEREAS, an effective mode of implementing the program would be to
require all applicants for marriage license to receive instructions and
information on family planning and responsible parenthood before they
are issued the marriage license, and to create the administrative
machinery for giving such instructions and information;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree:cralaw:red
Section 1. Office of Family Planning. — There is
hereby created in every city and municipality an Office of Family
Planning to be headed by the city or municipal health officer. He shall
be assisted by the city or rural health nurse, members of the city or
rural health unit, and such other personnel from the different agencies
of the government involved in the family planning program, who shall
perform family planning duties in addition to their regular duties.
Private entities or individuals duly accredited by the Commission on
Population engaged in family planning activities may also be impressed
into the service.
Section 2. Duties of Family Planning Office. — The
Office of Family planning shall give instructions and information on
family and responsible parenthood to applicants for marriage license
and other interested persons in the form of personal instruction and/or
handbook, pamphlets or brochures. Furthermore, such instructions and
information shall be consistent with the policies of the Commission on
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Section 3. Certificate of Compliance. — Applicants
for marriage license shall, upon filing an application therefore, be
obliged to receive instructions and information on family planning and
responsible parenthood from the Family Planning Office. Such
instructions and information may be in the form of personal instruction
or in the form of brochures, pamphlets, or handbooks. In places where
there are no health officers, any person duly accredited by the
Commission on Population may give the instructions herein provided.
No marriage license shall be issued by the Local Civil Registrar unless
the applicants present a certificate, issued at no cost to the
applicants, by an Office of Family Planning that they had received
instructions and information on family planning and responsible
parenthood.
If, for any reason, the information or instructions shall not have been
given within the period required by law for the issuance of a marriage
license, a certification to that effect shall be given to the Civil
Registrar by the Office of Family Planning and the former shall
withhold the issuance of the marriage license for a period of two weeks
to enable the Family Planning Office to give instructions and
information and the applicants to receive the same. At the end of such
period, when no instructions shall have been given, the Civil Registrar
may issue the marriage license.
Section 4. Assistance of National Office. — Agencies
of the National Government charged with the implementation of the
Family Planning program shall render assistance to family planning
offices herein created.
Section 5. Penalties. — Any member of the Office of
Family planning who fails or refuses without just cause to give the
instructions and the certificate herein provided: any local Civil
Registrar who issues the marriage license without the requisite
certification from the Office of Family Planning, or any person who
obtains the certificate fraudulently, shall be subject to appropriate
administrative or criminal charges.
Section 6. Rules and Regulation. — The Commission on
Population shall issue rules and regulations to implement the
provisions of this Decree.
Section 7. Repeal of Prior Law. — All laws and
ordinances inconsistent with the provisions of this Decree are hereby
repealed or modified accordingly.
Section 8. Effectivity. — This Decree shall take
effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 20th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-six.
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