PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 1688-A

AMENDING SECTION 2 (F) OF BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 33

WHEREAS, Batas Pambansa Blg. 33, a measure to conserve energy in order to enhance energy supplies required to support economic, social and developmental goals, prohibits water-skiing; and

WHEREAS, water-skiing may be allowed provided methanol fuel shall be used, which is locally produced and available;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby amend Section 2(f) of Batas Pambansa Blg. 33 by exempting water-skiing from its prohibition provided methanol is used for the power boat-operation.

This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.