ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 152, November 28, 1955

REGULATING THE WITHDRAWAL OR RETURN OF SAMPLES OF MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS SUBMITTED TO THE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR TESTS AND ANALYSES.

In order to avoid over-accumulation of old samples submitted for tests and analyses to the Institute of Science and Technology, all persons or entities who have submitted samples of materials and products that have been tested and examined and reports thereon forwarded to said persons or entities, shall withdraw, within six (6) months from the promulgation of this order, the said samples which they have submitted, unless a written request for a retest or reexamination of the same samples shall have been forwarded to the Director of said Institute during the said period.

Hereafter, all samples submitted to the Institute for similar tests and analyses shall be withdrawn by the party who submitted the same within a period of six (6) months from and after its receipt of the final report thereon of the Institute.

The Director of the Institute of Science and Technology shall notify the interested parties that their failure to collect tested samples within the prescribed period shall be construed as lack of interest on their part, and the said samples shall be deemed forfeited and considered as property of the Institute of Science and Technology.

Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) MARIANO YENKO, JR.

Assistant Executive Secretary