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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5953 - AN
ACT GRANTING PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO
CONSTRUCT, ESTABLISH, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN PRIVATE FIXED
POINT-TO-POINT, PRIVATE AERONAUTICAL, PRIVATE COASTAL AND PRIVATE
LAND-BASED AND LAND-MOBILE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND
TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES. Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution and the provisions of Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred and forty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes." 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 Progressive Development Corporation a temporary permit to construct, establish, operate and maintain in the Philippines at such places as the grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point, private aeronautical, private coastal and private land-based and land-mobile radio stations, for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus. Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit location of said private fixed point-to-point, private aeronautical, private coastal, and private land-based and land-mobile radio stations or any of them on lands of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe. Sec. 3. 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, and is granted upon the express condition that the same be void unless the construction of at least one of the said stations be begun within one and one-half years from the date of approval of this Act. Sec. 4. The grantee shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without further special assent of the Congress of the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point radio stations, private aeronautical radio stations, private coastal radio stations and private land-based and land-mobile radio units at such places in the Philippines as the interest of the corporation and its business may justify. Sec. 5. This temporary permit shall not take effect until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequencies and wave lengths to be used thereunder, but the grantee may use the international distress frequency of five hundred kilocycles and the high distress frequency of eight thousand two hundred eighty kilocycles whenever necessary. Sec. 6. No fees are chargeable, as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only. Sec. 7. The grantee shall so construct, and operate its radio stations so as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines. Sec. 8. The grantee shall hold the national, provincial, and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands, or actions arising out of accidents or injuries, whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations. Sec. 9. The grantee shall not lease, transfer,
grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this temporary permit, or the
rights or privileges acquired thereunder to any person, firm, company,
corporation or other commercial or legal entity without approval of the
Congress of the Philippines first had. Any corporation to which this
temporary permit may be sold, transferred, or assigned, shall be
subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or
hereafter enacted, and any person, firm, company, corporation or other
commercial or legal entity to which this temporary permit is sold,
transferred or assigned shall be subject to all the conditions, terms,
restrictions and limitations of this temporary permit as fully and
completely and to the same extent as if this temporary permit had been
originally granted to the said person, firm, company, corporation or
other commercial or legal entity. Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969. |
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