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An Act Granting Preference to Filipino Citizens in the Lease of Public Market Stalls

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1946

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October 1, 1946

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This Act grants preference to Filipino citizens in the lease of public market stalls, ensuring that they have priority over non-citizens. It empowers the Secretary of Finance to create necessary rules to implement this preference.
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REPUBLIC ACT No. 37

An Act Granting Preference to Filipino Citizens in the Lease of Public Market Stalls

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. All citizens of the Philippines shall have preference in the lease of public market stalls.

Section 2. The Secretary of Finance is hereby empowered to promulgate the necessary rules to carry into effect the purposes of this Act.

Section 3. All existing laws or parts thereof contrary to the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Section 4. This Act shall take effect on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-seven.

Approved: October 1, 1946


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