AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED 4073, ENTITLED "AN ACT FURTHER LIBERALIZING THE TREATMENT OF LEPROSY BY AMENDING AND REPEALING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE."

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 384
• Sections: 2

Preamble

WHEREAS, Section 1066 of the Revised Administrative Code,

which vested in the Secretary of Health administrative control,

including authority to make, promulgate and enforce in and for said

reservation and in or upon the waters thereof such rules and regulations

consistent with law as may be necessary for the efficient control,

protection, and management of the Culion Leper Colony, was repealed by

virtue of Section 2 of Republic Act No. 4073;

WHEREAS, such repeal has resulted in the loss by the

Department of Health of its jurisdiction over the Culion Reservation and

concomitantly in the indiscriminate issuance of permits for the

cutting, gathering and removing of bakawan and nipa leaves, as

well as, for fishing by outsiders, with the consequent depletion of

these natural resources which heretofore have been properly conserved

and intended for the exclusive use and welfare of the leprosy patients

in the Colony; and

WHEREAS, it is imperative that immediate appropriate

measures be taken so that such resources could be properly administered,

conserved and utilized for the efficient operations of the Culion

Sanitarium and thereby facilitate the implementation of projects for the

socioeconomic rehabilitation of leprosy patients and ex-patients;

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, do hereby order and decree that:

Section 2

Section 2 of Republic Act No. 4073, otherwise known as "An Act

Further Liberalizing the Treatment of Leprosy by Amending and Repealing

Certain Sections of the Revised Administrative Code," is hereby amended

to read as follows:

"Sections one thousand sixty to one thousand seventy-one,

inclusive, of the same Code, as amended, are hereby repealed, except

Section one thousand sixty-six: Provided, however, That the

administrative control over the Culion reservation, including the lands,

waters, forest and forest products within the reservation, shall be

exercised by the Secretary of Health through the Chief of the Culion

Sanitarium." This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of January, in the year

of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ROBERTO V. REYES

Assistant Executive Secretary