Purpose and nationalization enforcement
- Section 2 makes the Board’s main purpose to ensure implementation of all constitutional and nationalization requirements on Philippine citizenship for rights, franchises, privileges, property, or business.
- Section 2 directs the Board to coordinate, as far as practicable, government agencies enforcing those citizenship requirements.
- Section 2 specifically focuses on Commonwealth Act No. 108, as amended, commonly known as the Anti-Dummy Law, to eliminate evasion or circumvention of citizenship restrictions.
- Section 2 requires the Board to make and publish a list of associations and corporations that have, in their names or under their control, a right, franchise, privilege, property, or business reserved by law to citizens of the Philippines or the United States, or to corporations/associations at least fifty-one percent (51%) of whose capital is owned by such citizens.
Duties and functions
- Section 3 requires the Board to investigate violations and prosecute all violators of the laws referred to in Section 2 (called “dummies”).
- Section 3 mandates the Board to furnish professional services to informers who wish to avail themselves of Section 3-A of Commonwealth Act No. 108, as inserted by Republic Act No. 134.
- Section 3 authorizes the Board to enter as amicus curiae in all court cases that may have arisen from dummy cases.
- Section 3 requires the Board to devise ways and means for:
- An educational propaganda against dummies; and
- The carrying out of all nationalization legislation.
- Section 3 requires organization of:
- Local subcommittees in chartered cities and municipalities, and
- A provincial chapter in every capital of the provinces to help the Board’s campaigns against dummies.
- Section 3 requires the Board to issue rules and regulations for governing:
- The Board; and
- The subcommittees and chapters established under the Act.
- Section 3 further authorizes the Board to perform other duties that enable it to carry out the purposes for which it was created.
Investigatory powers and process
- Section 4 empowers the Board to issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum to designate officers or investigators to carry out inquiries in dummy cases.
- Section 4 allows designated officers or investigators to administer oaths during investigations of dummy cases.
- Section 4 authorizes the Board (through authorized investigators) to examine books and accounts of any person, association, or corporation involved in dummy cases.
Meetings, quorum, and work allocation
- Section 5 sets the Board’s main office in the City of Manila.
- Section 5 provides that the Board meets at times it designates.
- Section 5 states that the presence of three (3) members constitutes a quorum for transacting any business.
- Section 5 requires the Board to distribute its work among its members by lot, with the Chairman supervising the other members.
Compensation and personnel staffing
- Section 5 sets that, except for the Chairman, each Board member receives a salary of four thousand eight hundred pesos (₱4,800) per annum.
- Section 5 provides that if a Board member is a government official, the member shall not receive extra compensation as such member.
- Section 6 provides for a secretary-treasurer of the Board who must be a member of the Philippine Bar, appointed by the Board.
- Section 6 sets the secretary-treasurer’s annual compensation at six thousand pesos (₱6,000).
- Section 6 requires the secretary-treasurer to:
- Keep full and correct minutes of all Board proceedings;
- Pay out of Board funds all properly approved accounts; and
- Manage Board funds as authorized by law and regulations, plus other assigned duties.
- Section 6 authorizes the Board to appoint attorneys, investigators, and other employees and fix their duties and salaries.
- Section 6 requires that investigators appointed by the Board are lawyers and/or certified public accountants, with the proportion of lawyers and accountants left to the Board’s discretion.
- Section 6 sets each investigator’s salary at at least three thousand six hundred pesos (₱3,600) per annum.
- Section 6 authorizes the President, upon Board recommendation, to detail assistant provincial fiscals or assistant attorneys under the Department of Justice, or other government employees, to special duty with the Board; it provides that their time counts as part of their regular official service.
Deputy enforcement authority and arrests
- Section 7 makes permanent officials and employees of the Board, special-duty personnel with the Board, members of the Philippine Constabulary, members of city, municipal, and municipal district police, agents of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, agents of the Bureau of Immigration, and other designated government officers/employees deputies of the Anti-Dummy Board.
- Section 7 grants deputies full authority to enforce the provisions of Sections 3 and 4 of the Act and the Nationalization Laws.
- Section 7 grants deputies authority to arrest offenders against the same.
Funding and appropriation
- Section 8 appropriates two hundred thousand pesos (₱200,000), or so much as may be necessary, from National Treasury funds not otherwise appropriated, to place at the disposal of the Board for the stated purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifty-five.
- Section 8 provides that the appropriation shall be used to cover:
- Salaries of necessary personnel;
- Purchase of necessary equipment and supplies; and
- Sundry expenses to carry out the Act during fiscal year 1955.
- Section 8 directs the appropriation to be placed at the disposal of the Board under paragraph four, General Provisions, Section seven of Commonwealth Act No. 246, as amended.
- Section 8 provides that thereafter, the necessary sum for Board operations shall be included in the General Appropriation Act.
Effectivity
- Section 9 provides that the Act takes effect on July 1, 1954.
- The Act is approved on June 16, 1954.