AMENDING SECTION 1762, REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AS AMENDED

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 834
• Sections: 3

Preamble

WHEREAS, the country has embarked on a beef cattle program

to increase the cattle population for food consumption;

WHEREAS, for the program to be successful various breeds of

cattle should be brought in from abroad to improve present stock;

WHEREAS, circumstances may make it necessary to import

cattle other than for breeding purposes;

WHEREAS, the present law is not only a constraint to the

successful implementation of the program but does not give flexibility

to the government to act in the public interest in times of scarcity of

slaughtered cattle;

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

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

do hereby order and decree the following:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Section 1762 of the Revised Administrative Code,

as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SECTION 1762. Bringing of animals imported from foreign

countries into the Philippines.—It shall be unlawful for any person or

corporation to import, bring or introduce live cattle into the

Philippines from any foreign countries without the prior approval of the

Secretary of Agriculture, upon recommendation of the Director of Animal

Industry. Such imported cattle shall not exceed two thousand heads per

annum, which number may be increased upon certification by the Director

of Animal Industry to the head of the Department that there is urgent

need to import more; Provided, however, That the Director of

Animal Industry shall in all cases permit the importation, bringing or

introduction of draft cattle and bovine cattle for the manufacture of

serum: Provided further, That all live cattle from foreign

countries the importation, bringing or introduction of which into the

Philippines is authorized in this Act, shall be subject to regulations

issued by the Director of Animal Industry, with the approval of the Head

of the Department.

Section 2

SEC. 2. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of November, in the

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

(Sgd.)

FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.)

JACOBO C. CLAVE

Presidential Executive Assistant