PD 538 Section 16

Effectivity.

Section 16

SEC. 16. Effectivity. — This Decree shall take effect upon its approval. Done in the City of Manila, this 13th day of August in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four. (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR Executive Secretary

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