LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 816, February 20, 1979

[ LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 816, February 20, 1979 ]

TO: The Minister of National Defense

The Minister of Local Government and

Community Development

The Chief of Staff Armed Forces of the Philippines

The Chief of Constabulary Director-General, HIP

The Chairman Task Force Anti-Gambling

SUBJECT: TO EXCLUDE CERTAIN PROHIBITED GAMES UNDER PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1602.

WHEREAS, it is the intent of Presidential Decree No. 1602 to discourage and prohibit gambling not regulated or sanctioned under existing laws;

WHEREAS, there is need to exclude therefrom certain games like domino, bingo, poker when not played with five cards stud, cuajo, pangguingue and mahjong when exclusively intended for parlor games or for home entertainment;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby order that the games of domino, bingo, poker when not played with five cards stud, cuajo, pangguinge and mahjong, provided that they are played as parlor games or for home entertainment; and provided further, that they are not played in places habitually used for gambling and the betting is not disguised to defect the intent of Presidential Decree No. 1602, are hereby exempted.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 20th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JACOBO C. CLAVE

Presidential Executive Assistant