PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 438, April 19, 1974

[ PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 438, April 19, 1974 ]

FURTHER EXTENDING THE EFFECTIVITY OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 333, AS AMENDED, DATED NOVEMBER 26, 1973

As an emergency measure against the current international oil crisis, 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 order and decree that the effectivity of Presidential Decree No. 333, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 343 and Presidential Decree No. 368 be further extended to a period of ninety (90) days from and after the date of the effectivity of this Decree.

This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 19th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR

Executive Secretary