PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1293 - AN
ACT GRANTING THE LAPU-LAPU BROADCASTING CO., INC., A TEMPORARY PERMIT
TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS AND
STATIONS FOR TELEVISION IN THE PHILIPPINES |
Section 1.
Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, the Lapu-Lapu
Broadcasting Co., Inc., is hereby granted a temporary permit, which
shall continue in force during the time that the Government has not
established similar service at the places selected by the grantee, in
any case not to exceed ten years, to construct, maintain and operate,
for commercial purposes and in the public interest, radio broadcasting
stations and stations for television in the Philippines: Provided, That
this temporary permit shall be void unless the construction of at least
one radio broadcasting station or one television station be begun
within two years from the date of approval of this Act, and be
completed within four years from said date: Provided, further, That the
grantee shall provide adequate public service time to enable the
Government, through the said radio broadcasting stations and stations
for television, to reach the population on important public issues;
shall assist in the functions of public information and education;
shall conform to the ethics of honest enterprise; and shall not use its
stations for the broadcasting and/or telecasting of obscene or indecent
language, speech, act or scene, or for the dissemination of
deliberately false information or willful misrepresentation, or to the
detriment of the public health, or to incite, encourage, or assist in
subversive or treasonable acts. Sec. 2. Such provisions of Act Numbered Thirty-eight hundred and forty-six, entitled "Act providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes;" Act Numbered Thirty-nine hundred and ninety-seven, known as the Radio Broadcasting Law; Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six, known as the Public Service Act, and their amendments, as are applicable to radio broadcasting stations shall be applied, as far as practicable, to the television stations referred to in section one. Sec. 3. The grantee shall file a bond in the amount of fifty thousand pesos to guaranty for the full compliance and fulfillment of the conditions under which this temporary permit is granted. Sec. 4. In the event of any competing individual, partnership or corporation receiving from the Congress a similar temporary permit in which there shall be any term or terms more favorable than those herein granted or tending to place the herein grantee at any disadvantage, then such term or terms shall, ipso facto, become a part of the terms hereof and shall operate equally in favor of the grantee as in the case of said competing individual, partnership or corporation.
Sec. 5. (a) The grantee shall be liable to pay the
same taxes on its real estate, buildings and personal property,
exclusive of the temporary permit, as other persons or corporations are
now or hereafter may be required by law to pay. Sec. 6. In the event the Government should desire to maintain and operate for itself any or all of the stations herein authorized, the grantee shall turn over such station or stations to the Government with all the serviceable equipment therein, at cost, less reasonable depreciation. Sec. 7. The grantee shall not require any previous censorship of any speech, play, act or scene or other matter to be broadcast and/or telecast from its stations; but if any such speech, play, act or scene or other matter should constitute a violation of the law or infringement of a private right, the grantee shall be free from any liability, civil or criminal, for such speech, play, act or scene or other matter: Provided, That the grantee during any broadcast and/or telecast, may cut off from ther the speech, play, act or scene or other matter being broadcast and/or telecast if the tendency thereof is to propose and/or incite treason, rebellion or sedition, or the language used therein or the theme thereof is indecent or immoral.
Sec. 8. The grantee shall not lease, transfer,
grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this temporary permit nor the
rights and privileges acquired thereunder to any person, firm, company,
corporation or other commercial or legal entity, nor merge with any
other 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 is sold, transferred or
assigned, shall be subject to all the conditions, terms, restrictions
and limitations of this temporary permit as fully and completely and to
the same extent as if the temporary permit has been originally granted
to the said person, firm, company, corporation or other commercial or
legal entity. Approved: June 15, 1955 |