Effective date.
Section 371
SEC. 371. Effective date. — When section 187 of this Code shall have been approved by the President of the United States, as provided in section two, subsection (a), paragraph nine of the Act of Congress of March twenty- four, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, entitled, "An Act to provide for the complete independence of the Philippine Islands, to provide for the adoption of a constitution and a form of government for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," such fact shall be made known by proclamation of the President of the Philippines, and said section 187 of this Code shall take effect on the date of said proclamation. Except as otherwise specifically provided, this Code shall take effect on July first; nineteen hundred and thirty-nine. Approved: June 15, 1939.