Legal basis and amended provisions
- Act No. 3806 amends Sections 1942 and 1976 of Act No. 2711, otherwise known as the Administrative Code, as amended.
- Act No. 3806 updates the rules governing postal rates, charges, and the carriage of mails between post offices and for air transportation.
Postal rates and charge fixing
- Section 1942 provides that the rates and manner of collection of postage, registry fees, special delivery charges, money order fees, telegraphic transfer fees, and charges for transmission of messages by telegraph, telephone, or wireless telegraphy are prescribed by the Director of Posts.
- Section 1942 requires that postal rates and charges must be prescribed by the Director of Posts with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, subject to the limitations contained in this chapter.
- Section 1942 authorizes the Director of Posts, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, to fix from time to time the postal rates charged the public for the carriage of the mails by air.
Carriage of mails and air mail contracts
- Section 1976 directs the Director of Posts to provide by contract or otherwise for the carriage of the mails:
- between post offices in the Philippine Islands, and
- between the Philippine Islands and the United States and foreign countries.
- Section 1976 requires that the carriage arrangements be made in such manner and with such frequency as the Director of Posts considers proper.
- Section 1976 authorizes the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, with the approval of the Governor-General, to enter into air mail transportation contracts between points within the Philippine Islands and between the Philippine Islands and foreign countries for periods not to exceed five years.
- Section 1976 provides that air mail services under such contracts must be paid at fixed rates per kilo or per kilometer or the equivalent of the additional postal rates collected for the mail transported.
- Section 1976 requires that each air mail contract be awarded to the bidder whose bid is most advantageous to the Government, conditioned on the bidder being properly qualified and equipped to perform satisfactorily and to maintain efficient commercial aviation service for the public at large.
- Section 1976 grants authority to the Secretary of Commerce and Communications (or, in the future, the Secretary of any other department in charge of the air mail service) to grant to the awarded contract parties the right to use, free of charge, any or all navigation facilities, including landing fields now or hereafter opened, operated, or controlled by the Government of the Philippine Islands or any subdivision thereof.
- Section 1976 authorizes the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, with the approval of the Governor-General, to make and issue rules and regulations necessary to carry out the section’s provisions on transportation of the mails by air.