Purchases and sales of foreign exchange.
Section 73
SEC. 73. Purchases and sales of foreign exchange.—The Central Bank may buy and soil foreign notes and coins, and documents and instruments of types customarily employed for the international transfer of funds. The Bank may engage in future exchange operations. The Central Bank may engage in foreign exchange transactions with the following entities only: (a) Banking institutions operating in the Philippines; (b) The Government, its political subdivisions and instrumentalities; (c) Foreign or international financial institutions; and (d) Foreign governments and their instrumentalities. In order to maintain the convertibility of the peso, the Central Bank shall, at the request of any banking institution operating in the Philippines, buy any quantity of foreign exchange offered, and sell any quantity of foreign exchange demanded, by such institution, provided that the foreign currencies so offered or demanded are freely convertible into gold or United States dollars. This requirement shall not apply to demands for foreign notes and coins. The Central Bank shall effect its exchange transactions between foreign currencies and the Philippine peso at the rates determined in accordance with the provisions of section 76.