Duration, construction deadlines, and voiding
- The temporary permit is void unless the grantee begins construction of at least one international telecommunication station or one television station within two years from approval of Republic Act No. 511.
- The construction must be completed within four years from the same approval date.
- The grantee must provide adequate public service time so that the Government, through the television stations, can reach the population on important public issues.
- The grantee must assist in the functions of public information and education.
- The grantee must conform to the ethics of honest enterprise and must not use its stations to broadcast:
- Obscene or indecent language, speech, act, or scene; or
- Deliberately false information or wilful misrepresentation; or
- Anything to the detriment of the public health; or
- Anything that incites, encourages, or assists subversive or treasonable acts.
Applicable radio and broadcasting regulation
- Section 2 applies, as far as practicable, to the permit’s international telecommunication stations and television stations the applicable provisions of:
- Act No. 3846, entitled “An Act providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes”;
- Act No. 3997, known as the Radio Broadcasting Law;
- Commonwealth Act No. 146, known as the Public Service Act; and
- their amendments, to the extent applicable to radio broadcasting stations.
Compliance bond requirement
- The grantee must file a bond of PHP 50,000 to guaranty full compliance and fulfillment of the conditions under which the temporary permit is granted.
Equalization of competing favorable terms
- If Congress grants any competing individual, partnership, or corporation a similar temporary permit containing any term(s) more favorable than those in Republic Act No. 511 or tending to place the grantee at any disadvantage, then those more favorable term(s) ipso facto become part of the grantee’s permit.
- The added favorable term(s) must operate equally in favor of the grantee as in the competing permit.
Tax treatment for real and personal property
- The grantee must pay the same taxes on its real estate, buildings, and personal property (excluding the temporary permit) as other persons or corporations are required to pay under law now or later.
Turnover of stations to the Government
- If the Government desires to maintain and operate for itself any or all stations authorized under the permit, the grantee must turn over such station(s) to the Government.
- Turnover must include all serviceable equipment.
- Equipment must be turned over at cost, less reasonable depreciation.
Freedom from previous censorship; cut-off power
- The grantee must not require any previous censorship of any speech, play, or other matter to be broadcast from its stations.
- The grantee is free from any liability, civil or criminal, for such speech, play, or other matter if it constitutes a violation of law or infringement of a private right.
- During a broadcast, the grantee may cut off from the air the speech, play, or other matter being broadcast if:
- Its tendency is to propose and/or incite treason, rebellion, or sedition; or
- The language used or the theme thereof is indecent or immoral.
Prohibition on transfer without Congress approval
- The grantee must not:
- Lease the permit,
- Transfer it,
- Grant the usufruct of the permit,
- Sell it, or
- Assign it,
- nor transfer the rights and privileges acquired thereunder,
- nor merge with another company or corporation organized for the same purpose,
- without prior approval of the Congress of the Philippines.
- Any corporation to which the temporary permit may be sold, transferred, or assigned must be subject to Philippine corporation laws now existing or enacted in the future.
- Any person, firm, company, corporation, or other commercial or legal entity receiving the permit through sale, transfer, or assignment must be subject to all conditions, terms, restrictions, and limitations of the temporary permit, to the same extent as if originally granted.
Effectivity upon approval
- Republic Act No. 511 takes effect upon its approval.
- The Act was approved on June 14, 1950.