TO :	ALL CONCERNED

WHEREAS, the government has recognized as a matter of national policy the development of sports, recreation and youth in the country;

WHEREAS, to develop and sharpen physical, mental, and aesthetic potentials, there is a need to utilize to the maximum, all available resources towards this end;

WHEREAS, in order to enhance the attainment of the objectives of the Ministry, the Regional Physical Fitness and Sports Development Councils and the Regional Offices of the Ministry of Youth end. Sports Development recognize the need to initiate projects in cooperation with the private sector, more specifically with the cockpit owners, operators, and managers, for the utilization, in accordance with laws, of their cockpits for sports, recreation and youth activities;

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 3, par. 6 of P.D. 604, one of the functions of the Ministry is to conduct promotion and fund raising campaigns in accordance with existing laws in order to generate resources to support its programs;

WHEREAS, in order to achieve this, there is a need to utilize existing cockpits all over the country to augment present and future resources, to implement different programs and projects for youth, sports and recreation development at all levels and all ages;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me by the Constitution, do hereby issue the following orders and instructions:


Done in the City of Manila, this 13th. day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine.