WHEREAS, the National Publishing Cooperative, Inc. has been organized to serve as the education and information arm of the Cooperative Development Program;

WHEREAS, the National Publishing Cooperative, Inc. is anticipated to publish educational and training materials in agriculture, land reform, cooperatives and family planning;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, in order to further assist the cooperative movement, do hereby order the amendment of Regulation No. 40 of Letter of Implementation No. 23, dated July 9, 1973 by adding the following paragraph to said Regulation:

"The Department of Local Government and Community Development, the Department of Agrarian Reform, the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Commission on Population, when entering into contract with the National Publishing Cooperative, Inc., are hereby, exempted from the requirements of Sec. 1644, Revised Administrative Code and Department Order No. 14, s. 1972, of the Department of General Services,"

Done in the City of Manila, this 26th day of December, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.