RA 265 Section 1

Creation of the Central Bank.

Section 1

SECTION 1. Creation of the Central Bank.—There is hereby created a body corporate to be known as the Central Bank of the Philippines, which shall be governed by the provisions of this Act. The capital of the Central Bank shall be ten million (P10,000,000) pesos, which are hereby appropriated from the assets of the Exchange Standard Fund, as provided in section 134 of this Act.

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