Republic Act No. 5766




[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5766, June 21, 1969 ] AN ACT GRANTING A.C.D, INC., A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, PRIVATE COASTAL, PRIVATE AERONAUTICAL AND LAND-BASED AND LAND-MOBILE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: Section 1. There is hereby granted to A.C.D., Inc., its successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, establish, operate and maintain in the Philippines, at such places as the grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point, and land-based and land-mobile, private coastal and private aeronautical radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages by radio telegraph or radio telephone, each station to be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus. Section 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said radio stations or any of them on lands of the public domain upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. Section 3. This temporary permit shall continue to be in force during the time that the government has not established similar service at the places selected by the grantee but not exceeding twenty-five years and is granted upon express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction of at least one of the said stations be begun within one year from the date of approval of this Act and be completed within two years from said date. Section 4. The grantee shall not engage. in the domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without further consent of the Congress of the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, establish, maintain and operate said radio stations as the interest of the grantee may justify. Section 5. This temporary permit shall not take effect until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequencies and wavelengths to be used therefor, but the grantee may use the international distress frequency of five hundred eighty kilocycles whenever necessary. Section 6. No fees shall be charged as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only. Section 7. The grantee shall so construct and operate its radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines. Section 8. The grantee shall hold the national, provincial and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands or actions arising out of accidents, injuries, whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations. Section 9. The grantee shall not lease, transfer, grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this temporary permit, nor merge with any other persons, without the approval of the Congress of the Philippines first had. Any person, natural or juridical, to which this temporary permit may be sold, transferred or assigned, shall be subject to all conditions, limitations and restrictions of this permit as fully and completely and to the same extent as if the temporary permit had been originally granted to such persons. Section 10. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, emergency, calamity or disaster to cause, the closing of the grantee's radio stations or to authorize the temporary use or possession thereof by any department of the Government upon payment of just compensation. Section 11. This temporary permit shall be subject to amendment, alteration or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when the public interest so requires, and shall not be interpreted as an exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided for. Section 12. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.1a⍵⍴h!1 Enacted without Executive approval, June 21, 1969. The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation