---

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1881, August 14, 1979 ]

AMENDING PROCLAMATION NO. 822 DATED MARCH 1, 1971, ENTITLED “DECLARING THE LAST WEEK OF OCTOBER OF EVERY YEAR AS CONSUMERS’ PROTECTION WEEK”.

WHEREAS, Proclamation No. 822 dated March 1, 1971, declares the last week of October of every year as Consumers’ Protection Week;

WHEREAS, the Consumer Federated Groups of the Philippines Inc., has observed that programs for the Consumers’ Protection Week held on the last week of October do not elicit full attendance and are not successful as expected due to its proximity to November first, which is a special public holiday and also falls on semestral vacation time; and

WHEREAS, to ensure full attendance and success, it is necessary that the observance of the Consumers’ Protection Week be held on the first week of October of every year;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby amend Proclamation No. 822 by transferring the celebration of Consumers’ Protection Week to the first week of October of every year.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 14th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Assistant

The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation

---