REPUBLIC ACT No. 4558
An Act to Amend Republic Act Numbered Seven Hundred Ninety-Two, Entitled "An Act Granting to the Ma-ao Sugar Central Co, Inc. a Temporary Permit to Construct, Maintain and Operate Private Fixed Point-to-Point and Private Coastal Radio Stations in the Philippines for the Reception and Transmission of Radio Communication to and from Said Stations
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Seven hundred ninety-two is amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 1. There is hereby granted to the Ma-ao Sugar Central Co. Inc., its successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, maintain and operate in the Philippines, at such places as the grantee may select, particularly in the City of Manila and in the Province of Occidental Negros, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point, private coastal and private land mobile and land-based radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy or radio telephony, each station so established to be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and radio receiving apparatus."
Section 2. Section seven of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without further special assent of the Congress of the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is to secure the grantee the right to construct, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point, private coastal and private land mobile and land-based radio stations in the places specified in this Act as the interest of the company and of its trade and business may require."
Section 3. The title of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "An Act granting to the Ma-ao Sugar Central Co., Inc., a temporary permit to construct, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point, private coastal and private land mobile and land-based radio stations in the Philippines for the reception and transmission of radio communication to and from said stations."
Section 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: June 19, 1965.
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