SEC. 9. This decree shall take effect upon approval.
APPROVED this 16th day of December 1985, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen
hundred and eighty-five, in Malacañang.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the
Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive
Assistant
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CitationPD 2003 Section 9 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)
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