WHEREAS, it is necessary in the interest of public order and safety to regulate the exercise of the power of local officials to grant permits to hold public rallies, mass demonstrations, assemblies and similar meetings in order to ensure that the dissident elements in society are not provided with potent avenues for furthering their subversive, or seditious, or unlawful activities;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order and decree as follows:

SECTION 1. No permit to hold public rallies, mass demonstrations, assemblies and similar meetings shall be granted to persons who have been found guilty of rebellion, sedition or subversion, and who have not been granted amnesty therefor, or to persons who have pending charges of any of the aforesaid crimes.

SEC. 2. The penalty of prision correccional in its medium period to prision mayor in its maximum period shall be imposed upon any public officer or employee who violates the provisions of this decree.

SEC. 3. Any provision of law, rule or regulation contrary to or in conflict with this decree shall be considered, and is, hereby, repealed or modified accordingly.

SEC. 4. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 8th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Senior Presidential Assistant