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H. No. 12111 / 65 OG No. 23, 5827 (June 9, 1969)
[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5295, June 15, 1968 ]
AN ACT GRANTING EASTERN SHIPPING LINES, INC., A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, LAND BASED, LAND MOBILE AND MARINE COASTAL SERVICE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. There is hereby granted to Eastern Shipping Lines, Inc. a temporary
permit to construct, maintain and operate at such places within the Philippines, as
the grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works
and Communications, private fixed point-to-point, land based, land mobile, and
marine coastal service radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless
messages on radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to be provided with
radio transmitting apparatus and radio receiving apparatus.
SEC. 2. This temporary permit shall continue to be in force during the time that the Government has not established similar service at the places selected by the
grantee, is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless
the construction or installation of said stations be begun within one year from
the date of approval of this Act and be completed within two years from said date.
SEC. 3. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall engage in domestic business
of telecommunication being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, install, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point based, land mobile, and marine coastal service radio stations in such places within the Philippines as the business of the grantee may justify.
SEC. 4. No fees shall be charged by the grantee as the radio stations that may be
established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the
grantee's business only.
SEC. 5. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall so construct, and operate its
radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations
maintained and operated in the Philippines.
SEC. 6. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial,
city and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims,
accounts, demands or actions arising out of accidents or injuries, whether to
property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio
stations.
SEC. 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the corporation
laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted.
SEC. 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, is authorized to operate its private
radio stations in the medium frequency, high frequency, and very high frequency
that may be assigned to it by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications.
SEC. 9. The grantee shall not lease, transfer, grant the usufruct of, sell or assign
this temporary permit, or the rights or privileges acquired thereunder to any
person, firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity nor merge
with any other person, firm, company or corporation organized for the same
purpose, without the approval of the Congress of the Philippines first had. Any
corporation to which this temporary permit may be sold, transferred, or assigned shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted, and any person, firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity to which this temporary permit is sold, transferred, or assigned shall be subject to all conditions, terms, restrictions and limitations of this
temporary permit as fully and completely and to the same extent as if the
temporary permit had been originally granted to the said person, firm, company,
corporation or other commercial or legal entity.
SEC. 10. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in
time of war, insurrection, public peril, emergency, calamity or disaster to cause the
closing of the grantee's radio stations or to authorize the temporary use or
possession thereof by any department of the Government upon payment of just
compensation.
SEC. 11. This temporary permit shall be subject to amendment, alteration,
or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when the public interest so requires,
and shall not be interpreted as an exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided for.
SEC. 12. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Enacted without Executive approval, June 15, 1968.