Appropriated amount and authorized use
- Section 1 appropriates the sum of PHP 800,000 for handling, hauling, and distributing donated relief goods.
- The appropriation is intended to cover operations connected to the donated goods’ delivery and distribution.
- Section 1 limits the use of the appropriation to relief goods that were donated to the Philippines.
Coverage: donated relief goods and period
- Section 1 covers relief goods donated to the Philippines during the fiscal year nineteen hundred fifty-seven-nineteen hundred fifty-eight.
- Section 1 applies when the donors are “national relief or welfare organizations” in the United States of America and other countries in the Free World.
- Section 1 covers goods “which have been donated to the Philippines” and proceeds directed to handling, hauling, and distribution.
Funding source
- Section 1 authorizes the appropriation from “any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated.”
- The appropriation is drawn from the National Treasury subject to the statutory condition that the funds are not otherwise appropriated.
Procedural and implementation provisions
- Republic Act No. 2075 contains only an appropriation and an effectivity rule.
- Section 1 expressly authorizes appropriation for “handling, hauling and distributing” donated relief goods.
- Section 2 provides the timing of effectivity: upon approval.
Transitory provisions and repeal
- Republic Act No. 2075 applies to donated relief goods during the fiscal year nineteen hundred fifty-seven-nineteen hundred fifty-eight (Section 1).
- Republic Act No. 2075 includes a single effectivity provision stating it takes effect upon approval (Section 2).