Section 1
SECTION 1. Section eight of Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and sixty-six, as amended by Commonwealth Acts Numbered Seventy-seven and Three hundred and twenty-three, is hereby further amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 8. The Sugar Quota Administrator shall allocate among ail planters engaged in the growing of sugarcane, the total amount of ‘B’ and ‘C’ sugar, the manufacture whereof may be permitted in any given year, as provided in section five of this Act. "The allocation of 'B' sugar quota shall be effected in the following manner: "(a) Of the total quantity of 'B' sugar which may be permitted to be manufactured in any given year, sixty per cent, but in no instance less than one hundred fifty thousand four hundred fifty-live short tons thereof shall be allocated among plantation owners adherent to standard, marginal and sub-marginal mills as such standard, marginal and sub-marginal mills are denned in Executive Order Numbered Nine hundred one, dated October thirty, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, and in the manner therein provided. "(b) The balance of the total quantity of ‘B’ sugar which may be permitted to be manufactured in any given year, after deducting the amount allocated under paragraph (a) hereof and the amelioration allotments provided for in paragraph (d) hereof shall be allocated (1) to sugarcane land owners who are not holders of any allotment as well as (2) to plantation owners who are holders of allotments whose production is in excess of their individual total 'A' and 'B’ allotments, the first in proportion to their production during the 1948-1949, 1949-1950, 1950-1951, 1951-1952, 1952-1953 and 1953-1954 Crop years, whichever is the largest and the second in proportion to their production in excess of their total 'A' and 'B’ allotments, during the 1948-1949, 1949-1950, 1950- 1951, 1951-1952, 1952-1953 and 1953-1954 crop years whichever is the largest: Provided, however, That the determination of the crop year with the largest production shall be made by the Sugar Quota Administration which shall make a certification as to such production after due verification of actual production. "(c) Any increase in the domestic sugar consumption requirements for any crop year shall be allocated to all plantation owners in proportion to their respective domestic allotments as determined in sub-sections (a) and (b) of this section. "(d) The Sugar Quota Administrator shall be authorized to set aside and allocate equitably not more than four thousand short tons of the total domestic sugar to be used as amelioration allotment for sugarcane and sugar producers whose total allotment is less than one hundred piculs: Provided, That such amelioration allotment shall not be transferable except by testate or intestate succession. "The twenty-five thousand tons of sugar quota allotted to the Philippines for export for the free market as determined by the International Agreement for the regulation of the production and marketing of sugar of 1953 and any other 'C’ sugar quota shall be allocated among all plantation owners in proportion to their respective 'B’ allotments as finally computed for any given crop year."