AMENDING SECTIONS ONE AND TWO OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4169, EXTENDING TO THE POPULATION COUNCIL OF NEW YORK AND TO THE NON-FILIPINO CITIZENS SERVING ON THE STAFF THE EXEMPTIONS AND PRIVILEGES PROVIDED IN SAID SECTIONS.

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 246
• Sections: 5

Preamble

WHEREAS, the immediate and successful implementation of the

Population Control programs of the Government are essential to the national

economy and the development of the country;

WHEREAS, the Population Council of New York is engaged in

assisting governments and government institutions or instrumentalities in

facilitating their population control activities; and

WHEREAS, the Population Council of New York has assigned a

demographer to assist the Population Institute of the University of the

Philippines;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the

Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested 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:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Four

Thousand One Hundred Sixty-nine, is hereby further amended to include the

Population Council of New York as recipient of the exemptions and privileges

provided in the said Section.

Section 2

SEC. 2. Section 2 of the same Act is hereby amended to

include non-Filipino citizens serving on the staff of the Population Council of

New York as beneficiaries of the exemptions and privileges provided in

the said Section.

Section 3

SEC 3. All laws, decrees, orders and regulations

inconsistent with the provisions of this Decree are hereby repealed or modified

accordingly.

Section 4

SEC. 4. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of July, in the year of Our Lord,

nineteen hundred and seventy-three.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ROBERTO V. REYES

Assistant Executive Secretary