TO: The Secretary of Foreign Affairs
The Secretary of Justice
The Secretary of Finance
The Governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines
The Secretary of National Defense
Letters of Instructions No. 4, No. 5, No. 6 and No. 7, all dated September 22, 1972, are hereby amended to include the following proviso:

"You are likewise hereby ordered not to issue any clearance to foreign permanent residents holding Immigration Certificate of Residence (ICR) or Certificates of Registration for Pre-arranged Employees (CRPE) who wish to depart from the Philippines for any foreign country after the date of this order except only to those exceptional cases specified in the aforesaid Letters of Instructions."

Done in the City of Manila, this 12th day of October, in the year Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-two.