An Act Amending Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Sixty-Six, as Amended by Commonwealth Acts Numbered Seventy-Seven and Three Hundred and Twenty-Three

REPUBLIC ACT No. 1072

An Act Amending Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Sixty-Six, as Amended by Commonwealth Acts Numbered Seventy-Seven and Three Hundred and Twenty-Three

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

Section 1. Section eight of Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and sixty-six, as amended by Commonwealth Acts Numbered Seventy-seven and Three hundred and twenty-three, is hereby further amended so as to read as follows:

Section 2. The following section to be known as section eight-A is hereby inserted between sections eight and nine of Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and sixty-six, and to read as follows:

Section 3. Section nine of Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and sixty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 4. A section is hereby inserted after section sixteen of Act Numbered Four thousand one hundred sixty-six-A to be known as section sixteen-A to read as follows:

Section 5. A section is hereby inserted after section eighteen of Act Numbered Four thousand one hundred sixty-six to be known as section eighteen-A to read as follows:

Section 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 15, 1954.

"Sec. 8. The Sugar Quota Administrator shall allocate among all planters engaged in the growing of sugarcane, the total amount of "B" and "C" sugar, the manufacture whereof may be permitted in any given year, as provided in section five of this Act.

"The allocation of "B" sugar quota shall be effected in the following manner:

"The twenty-five thousand tons of sugar quota allotted to the Philippines for export for the free market as determined by the International Agreement for the regulations of the production and marketing of sugar of 1953 and any other "C" sugar quota shall be allocated among all plantation owners in proportion to their respective "E" allotments as finally computed for any given crop year."

"Sec. 8-A. If after the termination of milling in each sugar central in any milling season, the holder of any allotment is not able to mill enough sugar to fill his allotment for that year, the amount of such allotment which he cannot file during such milling season shall be reallocated by the Sugar Quota Administration to other holders of allotments first within the same district, and then to other districts or in such other manner as may insure the filling of the quota for that year: Provided, That no reallocation under the provision of this section shall diminish the allotment to which the holder may be entitled in any subsequent crop year."

"Sec. 9. The domestic allotment corresponding to each piece of land under the provisions of this Act shall be deemed to be an improvement attaching to the land entitled thereto. In the absence of milling contracts, or where such milling contracts shall have expired, such allotment shall be transferable in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be issued by the Sugar Quota Office: Provided, However, That the right of the plantation owner to transfer the domestic allotment attachment to the land from one milling district to another, shall not in any manner be curtailed, limited or in any way prejudiced."

"Sec. 16-A. Any person who falsifies a report of production for the purpose of increasing a planter’s allocation as contemplated in section eight (b) of this Act shall, without prejudice to any criminal liability, forfeit his allocations under this Act; and any person who shall give information which shall lead to the discovery of any falsification of reports or production shall be given fifty per cent of the planter’s allocation thus forfeited."

"Sec. 18-A. Any existing legislation, executive orders, or administrative orders which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed."