By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby prohibit the collection by private individuals or entities of scrap metals abandoned in public places or in private properties, the ownership of which scrap is not established.

The National Shipyards and Steel Corporation (NASSCO) is hereby designated as the sole governmental agency to assume the responsibility of collecting scrap metals abandoned on land throughout the country. The NASSCO shall devise ways and means of effecting the collection of abandoned scrap metals in the provinces and chartered cities through arrangements with provincial, city and municipal officials who shall be responsible to the NASSCO for the collection and custody thereof.

The NASSCO shall report periodically to the President of the Philippines on the progress of the collection of abandoned scrap metals, submitting inventories of collections made.

Executive Order No. 58, dated June 9, 1947, as amended by Executive Order No. 412, dated February 10, 1951, is hereby further amended accordingly.

Done in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of February, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixth.


By the President:
(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary