An Act to Amend Sections Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-Four and Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Eight-A of the Revised Administrative Code
Year:
1965
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
June 19, 1965
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This Act amends specific sections of the Revised Administrative Code to regulate the transmission of certain types of messages and materials through the mail and telecommunication systems. It aims to prevent the dissemination of materials that may be harmful or illegal, such as those related to lotteries, treason, and obscenity.Full Text
REPUBLIC ACT No. 4623
An Act to Amend Sections Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-Four and Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Eight-A of the Revised Administrative Code
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. Section nineteen hundred and fifty-four of the Revised Administrative Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Section 2. Section nineteen hundred and seventy-eight-A of the Revised Administrative Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Section 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: June 19, 1965.
"Sec. 1954. Absolutely non-mailable matter.— No matter belonging to any of the following classes, whether sealed as first-class matter or not, shall be imported into the Philippines, through the mails, or be deposited in or carried by the mails of the Philippines, or be delivered to its addressee by any officer or employee of the Bureau of Posts:
"When a matter of doubtful mailability under this section belong to the second-class mail, the acceptance or rejection thereof shall be decided within two days from the time it is offered for mailing: Provided, That in cases where the second-class mail is offered for mailing to a postmaster who, being in doubt, refers the question of its mailability to the central office, such question shall be decided within two days from the time of its submission: Provided, further, That if no decision is reached or is made within the two days herein provided, the mail shall be given due course."
"Sec. 1978-A. Messages which shall not be transmitted.— No message belonging to any of the following classes shall be transmitted by telegraph, cable or wireless telegraphy, or delivered to its addresses by any officer or employee of the Bureau of Posts:
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