1. (a)  Sugar—Sugar in any of its recognized commercial forms derived from sugar cane or any sugar plant, including syrups, edible and fancy molasses, and any other form of liquid sugar and their by products: bagasse, molasses, and filter cake.
   
   (b)  Scope  of the  practice   of  sugar   technology—The agronomy of sugar cane plants; analysis, synthesis and preparation of sugar; the manufacture, processing and refining of sugar; the industrial utilization of sugar and its by products; consultation work on problems involving the processing, manufacture, refining, or industrial utilization of sugar; and the teaching of professional courses in sugar technology.
   
   (c)  Sugar technologist—Any person who, for fee, salary or other compensation  or reward to himself or to another person, renders professional service requiring the knowledge of sugar technology.
   
   (d) Board—The Board of Examiners for Sugar Technologists created by this Act.
   
   (e) Registration—The authority given by the Board to practice sugar technology.
   
   (f) License—The authority given by the Board to a sugar mill, refinery, or factory engaged in the processing, manufacture, or refining of sugar or its by products,

1. (1)  A citizen of the Philippines and a resident thereof.
   
   (2)  At least thirty years of age.
   
   (3)  A duly registered sugar technologist in the Philippines, who has at least ten years experience in the practice of sugar technology previous to his appointment.
   
   (4)  Not a member of the faculty of any school, college or university where  courses  in  sugar technology,   sugar  chemistry or sugar engineering, is taught, nor have pecuniary interest in such institution.  The members of the first Board  of  Examiners  for  Sugar  Technologists  appointed under this Act shall be considered registered or licensed for the purpose hereof, and shall be issued upon payment of fifty pesos a certificate of registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

1. (a) In carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, the Board may, under the hand of the Chairman and the seal of the Board, subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance, and also may require the production of books, documents, and papers, in a case involving the revocation of registration or the practice of sugar technology without registration. Any member of the Board may administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses appearing before the Board. If any person shall refuse to obey a subpoena so issued or shall refuse to testify or produce any books documents, or other papers, the Board may present a petition to the Court of First Instance, setting forth the facts and thereupon such court shall, in proper case, issue its subpoena to such person, requiring his attendance before such court and thereto testify or produce such books, documents, or papers, as may be deemed necessary and pertinent by the Board. Any person failing or refusing to obey the subpoena or order of said court may be prosecuted against in the same manner as for refusal to obey other subpoena or order of the court.
   
   (b) The   Board   shall   exercise   the   powers   conferred upon it by this Act, evaluate academic courses or practical training in sugar technology, sugar chemistry and/or sugar engineering and shall make recommendation to the Secretary  of  Education  who  shall  take   appropriate   action thereon to   improve  the  educational   standards  in sugar technology; to inspect centrifugal sugar mills, refineries, or factories, schools and other educational institutions and, in general, to study conditions affecting the practice  of  sugar technology in the Philippines.
   
   (c) Unless authorized by the other Boards of Examiners concerned in the exercise of the powers vested in them by law, no sugar laboratory, centrifugal sugar mill, sugar refinery, or factory engaged in the processing, manufacture, or refining of sugar and its by products shall operate without first obtaining a license from the Board of Examiners for Sugar Technologists.

                    ARTICLE II.Registration and Examination

1. (a) Sugar technologists from other countries called in for consultations or for a project not requiring more than six months residence in the Philippines in any twelve months period:  Provided, That such sugar technologists in their own state or country in which the requirement and qualifications for obtaining a certificate of registration are not lower than those specified in this Act.
   
   (b) Foreigners employed as technical officers, professors, or consultants in such special branches of sugar technology as may, in the judgment of the Board, be necessary and indispensable for the country: Provided, That they are internationally recognized experts, that the work is confined to the specified employment and they do not engage in private practice.

1. (a)  He  is   a  citizen   of  the   Philippines  and   at  least twenty-one years of age;
   
   (b)  He is of good reputation and moral character; and
   
   (c)  He has graduated in sugar technology from a school, college or university recognized by the Government after completing a resident collegiate course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Sugar Technology of not less than five years, or its equivalent baccalaureate degree. Three years of practical experience in sugar technology may be considered as sufficient equivalent for every year of college education which experience must be acquired before the application for examination.
   
   (d)  Applicants below twenty-one years of age may be allowed  to  take the  examination,   but  the  certificate  of  registration   shall   be   withheld   until   the   candidate   has  reached the age of twenty-one years.

1. I. Sugar cane agronomy
   
   II. Sugar Chemistry and chemical control
   
   III. Sugar engineering and instrumentation
   
   IV. Sugar manufacture and refining
   V. By-products utilization
   
   VI. Professional ethics for sugar technologists.

ARTICLE III. Sundry Provisions Relative to Practice of Sugar Technology

                                  ARTICLE IV. Final Provisions