Preamble
WHEREAS, the government is concerned with providing adequate protection to safeguard the interest of the public against unethical, unfair and incompetent practice of service and repair enterprises; WHEREAS, the government is also concerned with protecting reliable and competent service and repair enterprises against such malpractices which undermine their good name and established reputation; WHEREAS, the promotion and development of service and repair enterprises are effective ways of hastening technological development and encouraging professionalism to assure the public of reliable, ethical and competent services conformable with the standards of discipline of the new social and economic order; WHEREAS, in order to attain these objectives and purposes there must be evolved and implemented a program of accreditation of such enterprises; 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: