Full Title
AN ACT TO LIFT THE PROHIBITION TO EXPORT FIBERS (BUNTAL) OR FILAMENTS OF THE PLANT COMMONLY KNOWN AS "BURI", AMENDING THEREBY COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE.
Congress
House Bill No.
H. No. 1628
Legislative History
Date of Approval
June 19, 1948
Other Details
Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance Type
Bill Note
Subjects
Amendment Note
CA 585, Title, secs. 1 & 2
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Official Gazette
Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 45 no. 1 page 142 (1/00/1949)
Full Text of Issuance
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H. No. 1628 / 45 OG No. 1, 142 (January, 1949)
[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 319, June 19, 1948 ]
AN ACT TO LIFT THE PROHIBITION TO EXPORT FIBERS (BUNTAL) OR FILAMENTS OF THE PLANT COMMONLY KNOWN AS “BURI”, AMENDING THEREBY COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:SECTION 1. The prohibition to export fibers (buntal) or filaments of the plant commonly known as “buri” is lifted and title of Commonwealth Act Numbered Five hundred and eighty-five and sections one and two thereof are amended, so as to read as follows:
“AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE EXPORTATION OF SEEDS OR SEEDLINGS OF THE PLANT COMMONLY KNOWN AS ‘BURI’.”“SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful and illegal for any person, corporation, firm or association, to export to any foreign country seeds or seedlings of the plant commonly known as ‘buri’ (Corypha elata).“SEC. 2. Any violation of this Act shall be punished by imprisonment of not less than one month nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than one hundred discretion of the Court, and the seeds or seedlings of the said plant attempted to be exported shall be confiscated by, and forfeited to, the Government.”
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.Approved, June 19, 1948.
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