PROCLAMATION NO. 58, August 24, 1954

[ 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