Temp permit for Radio Electronic Headquarters ops

The temporary permit enables the grantee to construct, install, maintain, and operate private fixed point-to-point, land based, and land mobile radio stations in selected places within the Philippines (Section 3).
The permit is intended to better serve the public in the dissemination of news and events of national interest (Section 3).
The permit is purpose-limited to securing construction/operation rights for the enumerated radio stations at chosen locations (Sections 1 and 3).

The law covers Radio Electronic Headquarters, Inc., including its successors or assigns (Section 1).
The law authorizes private fixed point-to-point and land based and land mobile radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages (Section 1).
Each station must be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus (Section 1).
The permit operates within the Philippines, at places selected by the corporation and approved by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications (Section 1).
The grantee may operate stations in radio bands of medium frequency, high frequency, and very high frequency that are assigned by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications (Section 8).

The temporary permit continues in force during the time that the Government has not established similar service at the places selected by the grantee (Section 2).
The permit is granted on an express condition that it is void unless:
- Construction or installation begins within one year from the date of approval of the Act, and
- Construction or installation is completed within two years from the same date (Section 2).
The permit is granted in a manner that allows amendment, alteration, or repeal by Congress when the public interest so requires, and it is not interpreted as an exclusive grant of the privilege (Section 10).

The grantee must not engage in domestic telecommunications business in the Philippines without further special assent of Congress (Section 3).
The law requires that fees are handled as follows: No fees shall be charged by the grantee as the radio stations established under the Act engage in communications regarding the grantee’s business only (Section 4).

The grantee must construct and operate radio stations so they do not interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines (Section 5).

The grantee must hold National, provincial, city, and municipal governments harmless from all claims, accounts, demands, or actions arising from accidents or injuries to property or persons caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations (Section 6).

The grantee, its successors, or assigns must be subject to Philippine corporation laws that are currently existing or later enacted (Section 7).

The President reserves a special right:
- In time of war, insurrection, public peril, calamity or disaster, to cause the closing of the grantee’s radio stations, or
- To authorize temporary use or possession of those stations by any department of the Government, on just compensation (Section 9).

Congress may amend, alter, or repeal the temporary permit when public interest so requires (Section 10).
The permit must not be interpreted as granting an exclusive privilege (Section 10).