QuestionsQuestions (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 965)
To require applicants for marriage license to receive instructions on family planning and responsible parenthood, as part of the government’s national population program, and to create the administrative machinery to provide those instructions.
In every city and municipality, headed by the city or municipal health officer.
The city or municipal health officer.
The city or rural health nurse, members of the city or rural health unit, other government personnel involved in the family planning program performing additional family planning duties, and (if accredited) private individuals/entities engaged in accredited family planning activities.
To give instructions and information on family and responsible parenthood to applicants for marriage license and other interested persons, through personal instruction and/or a handbook, pamphlets, or brochures, consistent with policies of the Commission on Population.
They must receive instructions and information on family planning and responsible parenthood from the Family Planning Office.
Personal instruction or brochures, pamphlets, or handbooks.
Any person duly accredited by the Commission on Population may give the required instructions.
The Office of Family Planning issues a certification to that effect to the Civil Registrar; the Civil Registrar withholds issuance for two weeks to allow instructions to be given and applicants to receive them.
If no instructions have been given at the end of the two weeks, the Civil Registrar may issue the marriage license.
The Commission on Population.
They must render assistance to the family planning offices created under the decree.
Any member of the Office of Family Planning who fails or refuses without just cause to give instructions and the certificate; any Local Civil Registrar who issues the license without the requisite certificate; and any person who obtains the certificate fraudulently.
They are repealed or modified accordingly, per Section 7 of the decree.
It took effect immediately upon its issuance on July 20, 1976.