WHEREAS, xerox and other similar copying machines or
equipment have been utilized for the production of subversive propaganda
materials;
WHEREAS, these copying machines or equipment have also been
utilized in the falsification of letters and important papers mid
documents; and
WHEREAS, it has, therefore, become necessary for the
Government to regulate the use of these machines or equipment;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and General
Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, as amended, do hereby decree and
order:
- That all such machines or equipment be registered with
either the Philippine Constabulary or the National Bureau of
Investigation;
- That these equipment or machines shall be registered
within a period of fifteen (15) days from the date hereof, and in the
event of failure to register within the period herein prescribed, the
machine or equipment shall be confiscated by the National Bureau of
Investigation or the Philippine Constabulary;
- That the Chief, Philippine Constabulary or the
Director, National Bureau of Investigation shall inform the Secretary
of National Defense, the Secretary of Justice and the Secretary of
Public Information of the registration herein required for their
information and guidance;
- That the Secretary of Public Information shall widely
publish this order especially during the period of fifteen (15) days
prescribed for the registration of these equipment and machines;
- That all future acquisitions by purchase, lease or other
modes, of these machines or equipment shall be registered as herein
prescribed.
- That the Chief, Philippine Constabulary, and the Director,
National Bureau of Investigation, shall prescribe any rules or
regulations needed to implement this Decree.
Done in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of March, in the year of
Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.
In order to facilitate the implementation of this Presidential
Decree No. 140, the Philippine Constabulary and the National Bureau of
Investigation jointly issued an HPC-NBI directive, dated March 7, 1973,
prescribing the rules and regulations in registering copying machines.