AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NUMBERED SEVENTEEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-ONE BY ADDING TV/O NEW SECTIONS AFTER SECTION FOURTEEN THEREOF.

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 1849
• Sections: 3

Preamble

I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, in order to effect minor amendments to existing law and to correct certain typographical errors therein, do hereby order and decree the following:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Two new sections, denominated as Sections fifteen and sixteen, are hereby added and inserted after Section fourteen of Presidential Decree No. 1771 which shall read as follows:

"SEC. 15. All acts, decrees, orders, rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are contrary to, or inconsistent with this Decree are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

"SEC. 16. This Decree shall take effect immediately upon its promulgation."

Section 2

SEC. 2. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 11th day of September in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-two.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA

Presidential Executive Assistant