FURTHER AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 79 AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS REVISED POPULATION ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES.

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 803
• Sections: 4

Preamble

WHEREAS, private sector participation must be strengthened

to achieve a comprehensive and more effective national population

program;

WHEREAS, involvement of the private sector in the

development and formulation of policy and plans is essential to achieve

effective coordination in the execution of our national population

program;

WHEREAS, the Population Center Foundation, Inc. is the

primary grant-making institution for population programs of the private

sector in the Philippines and has developed the potential of becoming a

major source of population expertise in the Asian Region;

WHEREAS, effective coordination between the Population

Center Foundation, Inc. and the Commission on Population is necessary to

maximize the efforts and resources that are applied to our national

population program;

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

Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution

and in order to strengthen the population program of the Philippines, do

hereby decree and make part of the law of the land the following:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Section 6 of Presidential Decree No. 79 as

amended is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"All functions and powers of the POPCOM shall be vested in and

exercised by a Board of Commissioners hereinafter referred to as the

Board, composed of: Secretary of Education and Culture/Secretary of

Health, Secretary of Social Welfare, Dean of the University of the

Philippines Population Institute, the Director-General of the National

Economic arid Development Authority, Executive Director of the

Population Center Foundation, Inc., and two other members from the

private sector who possess the necessary expertise in the field of

population and who are not recipients of Population Commission program

money, each to be appointed by the President of the Philippines for a

term of three years."

Section 2 Repealing Clause.

SEC. 2. Repealing Clause.—All laws, acts, decrees,

executive orders and rules and regulations, or parts thereof

inconsistent with this Decree are hereby repealed or modified

accordingly.

Section 3 Effectivity.

SEC. 3. Effectivity.—This Decree shall take

effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila this 25th day of September in the

year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.

(Sgd.)

FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.)

ALEJANDRO MELCHOR

Executive Secretary