In line with the Government's program of eradicating graft and
corruption in society, and promote the economic and social welfare of
the people, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and General
Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, as amended, do hereby order and
decree that any employee or laborer who shall steal any material, spare
part, product or article that he is working on, using or producing
shall, upon conviction, be punished with imprisonment ranging from prision
correccional to prision mayor.
All laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly, unless the same provide a heavier penalty.
This
Decree is hereby made a part of the law of the land and shall take
effect immediately after the publication thereof in a newspaper of
general circulation.
Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of
February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President
Republic of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary