AMENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 111, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE NATIONAL CHARTER OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF THE PHILIPPINES.

Preamble

WHEREAS, Commonwealth Act Number One Hundred Eleven, dated
October 31, 1936, was enacted to create the Boy Scouts of the
Philippines, a public corporation and to provide guidelines for its
operation;
WHEREAS, recent events have shown that it has become
necessary to effect reforms in the organization's structure order to
revitalize and strengthen its operational capabilities enhance its
effectiveness as an instrument to promote the youth development program
of the nation, and insure the full and active cooperation, involvement
and support of all sectors of the community, public and private;
WHEREAS, the tremendous increases in the membership of the
Boy Scouts of the Philippines and the support generated from the private
and public sectors during the period of the Golden Jubillee
celebrations amply attests the degree of acceptance by the youth and the
community of the Scouting program and the Scout Movement;
WHEREAS, the scouts through their recent involvement in
civic and community development projects, undertaken on their own
initiative and with extra-ordinary enthusiasm and zeal have demonstrated
that, given the opportunity and properly motivated leadership, they can
become the new nation builders and contribute effectively to the
improvement of our Society and the development of our nation;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution,
in order to effect the desired changes and reforms in the social,
economic, and political structure of our society, do hereby decree and
order the amendments to Commonwealth Act No. 111 as follows:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Section I of Commonwealth Act No. 111 is amended
to read as follows: "J. E. H. Stevenot, A. N. Luz, C. P. Romulo, Vicente
Lim, Manuel Camus, Jorge B. Vargas, and G. A. Daza; all of Manila,
Philippines, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body
corporate and politic in deed and in law, by the name, style and title
of 'Boy Scouts of the Philippines' (hereinafter called the corporation).
The principal office of the corporation shall be in Metropolitan
Manila, Philippines".
SECTION II. Section 5 of the said Act is also amended to
read as follows:
"The governing body of the said corporation shall consist of a
National Executive Board composed of (a) the President of the
Philippines or his representative: (b) the charter and life members of
the Boy Scouts of the Philippines; (c) the Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Philippine Scouting Foundation; (d) the Regional
Chairman of the Scout Regions of the Philippines; (e) the Secretary of
Education and Culture, the Secretary of Social Welfare, the Secretary of
National Defense, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Finance, the
Secretary of Youth and Sports, and the Secretary of Local Government
and Community Development; (f) an equal number of individuals from the
private sector; (g) the National President of the Girl Scouts of the
Philippines; (h) one Scout of Senior age from each Scout Region to
represent the boy membership; and (i) three representatives of the
cultural minorities. Except for the Regional Chairman who shall be
elected by the Regional Scout Councils during their annual meetings, and
the Scouts of their respective regions, all members of the National
Executive Board shall be either by appointment or cooption, subject to
ratification and confirmation by the Chief Scout, who shall be the Head
of State. Vacancies in the Executive Board shall be filled by a
majority vote of the remaining members, subject to ratification and
confirmation by the Chief Scout. The by-laws may prescribe the
number of members of the National Executive Board necessary to
constitute a quorum of the board, which number may be less than a
majority of the whole number of the board. The National Executive
Board shall have power to make and to amend the by-laws, and, by a
two-thirds vote of the whole board at a meeting called for this purpose,
may authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon the
property of the corporation.
The National Executive Board shall, by resolution passed
by a majority of the whole board, designated three or more of their
number of constitute an executive or governing committee, of which a
majority shall constitute a quorum, which committee, to the extent
provided in said resolution or in the by-laws of the corporation, shall
have and exercise the powers of the executive board in the management of
the business affairs of the corporation, and may have power to
authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which
may require it. The National Executive Board, by the affirmative
vote of a majority of the whole board, may appoint any other standing
committees shall have and may exercise such powers as shall be conferred
or authorized by the by-laws. With the consent in writing and pursuant
to an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of said corporation,
the National Executive Board shall have authority to dispose in any
manner of the whole property of the corporation."
SECTION III. Section 6 of this Act shall be amended to read
as follows:
"The National Executive Board shall meet once every three
months at a time and place to be designated in the by-laws.
The annual meeting of the incorporators, their associates and
successors, shall be held once in every year after the year of
incorporation at such time and place as shall be likewise prescribed
in the by-laws, when the annual reports of the officers and executive
board shall be presented. Special meetings of the corporation may be
called upon such notice as may be prescribed in the by-laws. The number
of members which shall constitute a quorum at any annual or special
meeting shall be prescribed in the by-laws. The members and executive
board shall have power to hold their meetings and keep the seal, books,
documents, and papers of the corporation within or without the Metropolitan
Manila."
SEC. IV. Section 7 of the same Act shall be amended to read
as follows:
"The corporation created by this Act shall adopt distinctive
badges, uniforms and insignia for the Scouts of the Philippines and once
adopted shall have the sole and exclusive right to use the titles,
emblems, uniforms, badges, descriptive or designating marks, words and
phrases used by the Scouts of the Philippines in carrying out its
program in accordance with the purposes of this Act".
SEC. V. The same Act is further amended by adding the
following section immediately after Section 10:
"Until such time as the reorganization and restructuring of
the Executive Board, in accordance with Section 5 as amended is
effected, the Honorable Carlos P. Romulo, Chairman of the Golden
Jubilee Board and one of the founders of the Organization and a charter
member thereof, is hereby appointed Interim Chairman of the Board and
President of the Organization and authorized to organize an interim body
to conduct the affairs of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines and to take
the necessary steps to effect such reorganization within six (6) months
from date of this decree."
SEC. VI. This Decree shall effect, immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 17th day of May, in the year
of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.
(Sgd.)
FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.)
ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary

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