Full Title
AN ACT TO GIVE THE BOARD OF DOCUMENTS DISCRETIONARY POWER TO DELEGATE TO ITS DULY AUTHORIZE REPRESENTATIVES ITS AUTHORITY TO WITNESS THE BURNING OF CONDEMNED RECORDS.
Congress
2nd National Assembly
Date of Approval
May 30, 1939

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance
Legislative Issuance Type
Commonwealth Act

Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 37 no. 88 page 1680 (7/25/1939)

Full Text of Issuance

[ Commonwealth Act No. 431, May 31, 1939 ]

AN ACT TO GIVE THE BOARD ON DOCUMENTS DISCRETIONARY POWER TO DELEGATE TO ITS DULY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES ITS AUTHORITY TO WITNESS THE BURNING OF CONDEMNED RECORDS.

Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines:Sec. 1. Subsection (b) of section one of Commonwealth Act Numbered Fifty-four is amended so as to read as follows:

"(b) To have such documents, public records and papers, which in its judgment are valueless, destroyed by burning in the presence, of its members or of two representatives duly authorized by it."

Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.;Approved, May 31, 1939.

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