Section 2
SEC. 2. Section 16 of Presidential Decree No. 229 is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 16. Postponement of Referendum. — When for any serious cause such as calamities, floods, or other force majeure, violence, terrorism, loss or destruction of referendum paraphernalia or records, and other analogous causes of such a nature that the holding of a referendum becomes impossible in any barangay center or political division or subdivision, the Commission on Elections, upon verified petition and after due notice and hearing, shall postpone the referendum therein to such time as it may deem necessary, but on a date reasonably close to the date of the referendum not held or suspended: Provided, however, That the Commission on Elections may authorize barangay members of barrios or barangays where there is unrest or where the holding of the referendum cannot be held without endangering the safety of the voters, to cast their votes in the nearest barangay referendum center where the conditions of peace and order are under control."