Section 3
SEC. 3. An application for a gratuitous permit shall be filed with the Director of Mines, Manila, paying therefor a filing fee of P20.00. Upon compliance with all the requirements relative thereto, a permit shall be issued by the Director of Mines after which the permittee shall start the development and utilization of the gas deposits found within the area of his permit for household use or for small scale industrial development. A permittee shall in no case be entitled to more than one (1) permit for every petroleum region at any one time. The area to be covered by a gratuitous permit application shall be not more than twenty (20) hectares, in a block rectangular in shape, and as much as possible the larger sides of the rectangle shall not be more than five times the shorter sides.