MALACAÑANG
RESIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT
OF THE PHILIPPINES
Manila

Proclamation No. 58

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


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