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[ PROCLAMATION NO. 58, August 24, 1954 ]

DECLARING THE EFFECTIVITY OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 832, ENTITLED “AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE, EXCHANGE, OR DELIVERY OF HOME POUNDED, UNDERMILLED, MILLED OR POLISHED RICE AND PROVIDING PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF,” IN ALL PROVINCES AND CITIES OF THE PHILIPPINES



WHEREAS, section 10 of Republic Act No. 832, entitled “An Act to regulate the sale, exchange, or delivery of Home Pounded, Undermilled, Milled or Polished Rice, and providing penalty for violation thereof,” provides that said Act shall take effect upon the proclamation of the President of the Philippines when the Secretary of Health certifies’ that the province or provinces and cities concerned have already the facilities necessary to implement the law;

WHEREAS, the above-mentioned law is already effective in the provinces of Bataan, Tarlac and Pangasinan; and

WHEREAS, the Secretary of Health certifies that all provinces and cities in the Philippines wherein the law is not yet declared effective will have already had the necessary facilities to implement the law 30 days after the dates stated in said certificate ;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 10 of Republic Act No. 832, do hereby proclaim that said Act shall take effect in the provinces and cities enumerated below 30 days after the respective dates set opposite the names of the provinces and cities.

1955

January 1

City of Manila

 

Province of Rizal

 

Pasay City

 

Quezon City

 

Dagupan City

April 1

Provinces of:

 

Nueva Ecija

 

Nueva Vizcaya

 

Bulacan

 

Pampanga

 

Mindoro Oriental

 

Mindoro Occidental

 

City of:

 

Cabanatuan

July 1

Provinces of:

 

Laguna

 

Batangas

 

Cavite

 

Quezon

 

Marinduque

 

Zambales

 

La Union

 

Mountain Province

 

Cities of:

 

Baguio

 

San Pablo

 

Lipa

 

Cavite

 

Tagaytay

October 1

Provinces of:

 

Cagayan

 

Isabela

 

Ilocos Norte

 

Ilocos Sur

 

Abra

 

Batanes

1956

January 1

Provinces of:

 

Albay

 

Sorsogon

 

Camarines Norte

 

Camarines Sur

 

Catanduanes

 

Masbate

 

City of:

 

Naga

April 1

Provinces of:

 

Samar

 

Leyte

 

Cebu

 

Negros Oriental

 

Surigao

 

Bukidnon

 

Agusan

 

Oriental Misamis

 

Occideaital Misamis

 

Lanao

April 1

Cities of:

 

Calbayog

 

Cebu

 

Dumaguete

 

Ozamiz

 

Ormoc

July 1

Provinces of:

 

Negros Occideaital

 

Romblon

 

Iloilo

 

Capiz

 

Antique

 

Bohol

 

Cities of:

 

Bacolod

 

Iloilo

October 1

Provinces of:

 

Cotabato

 

Davao

 

Zamboanga del Norte

 

Zamboanga del Sur

 

Sulu

 

Palawan

 

Cities of:

 

Davao

 

Zamboanga

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 24th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary



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