REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1843 - AN ACT
GRANTING THE AGUINALDO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO
CONSTRUCT, ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT
RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO
COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES |
Section 1. There
is hereby granted to the Aguinaldo Development Corporation, its
successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, establish,
maintain and operate in the Philippines, at such places as the said
company may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public
Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point radio stations
for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on
radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to be provided with a
radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus. Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point radio stations or any of them on lands of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.cralaw Sec. 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, and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction of said stations be begun within one year from the date of approval of this Act and be completed within two years from said date.cralaw Sec. 4. 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 to the grantee the right to construct, establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point radio stations in such places within the Philippines as the interest of the company and of the trade and business may justify.cralaw Sec. 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 wave lengths to be used thereunder, but the grantee, its successors or assigns, may use the international distress frequency of five hundred kilocycles and the high distress frequency of eight thousand two hundred eighty kilocycles whenever necessary.cralaw Sec. 6. No fees are chargeable, as the radio station that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the company's business only.cralaw Sec. 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, 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.cralaw Sec. 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands, or actions arising out of accidents or injuries, whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations.cralaw Sec. 9. The grantee shall not lease, transfer,
grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this temporary permit, nor the
rights or privileges acquired thereunder to any person, firm, company,
corporation or other commercial or legal entity nor merge with any
other person, firm, company, or corporation organized for the same
purpose, without the approval of the Congress of the Philippines first
had. Any corporation to which this temporary permit may be sold,
transferred, or assigned, shall be subject to the corporation laws of
the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted, and any person,
firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity to which
this temporary permit is sold, transferred, or assigned shall be
subject to all conditions, terms, restrictions and limitations of this
temporary permit as fully and completely and to the same extent as if
the temporary permit had been originally granted to the said person,
firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity. 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.cralaw Section 12. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval. Approved: June 22, 1957 |