ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 51, May 04, 1967

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO PASS UPON AND COORDINATE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RADIO STATIONS AND ISSUANCE OF RADIO FREQUENCIES

WHEREAS, there is an urgent need for overall planning, implementation and coordination with respect to the establishment of radio stations and the issuance of permits for the corresponding radio frequencies therefor in order to prevent indiscriminate issuance of frequencies, overlapping and clogging up of the airwaves;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby create and constitute a Committee composed of the following:

Deputy Director-General Alejandro Melchor, Presidential Economic Staff ...................	Chairman
The Chief Signal Officer, Signal Corps Armed Forces of the Philippines ....................	Member
The Chief, Radio Control Office ..................................................................................	Member

It shall be the duty and responsibility of the Committee to plan, implement and coordinate the establishment of radio stations and the issuance of radio frequencies in order to prevent their indiscriminate issuance, overlapping and consequent clogging of the airwaves. For this purpose, the Committee is hereby empowered to review and pass upon all applications for construction of radio stations and issuance of radio frequencies. In passing upon the applications, the Committee shall be guided by existing radio laws and applicable rules and regulations.

The Radio Control Office shall serve as the Secretariat of the Committee.

The Committee may call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government for such assistance as it may need in the performance of its functions.

Done in the City of Manila, this 4th day of May, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS

Executive Secretary