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Juan Lorenzo Bordallo, et al vs PRC and Board of Marine Deck Officers

JUAN LORENZO B. BORDALLO, RESTITUTO G. DE CASTRO and NOEL G. OLARTE, petitioners, vs. THE PROFESSIONAL REGULATIONS COMMISSION and THE BOARD OF MARINE DECK OFFICERS, respondents.

G.R. No. 140920 | 2001-11-19

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J.:

On February 24, 1998, President Fidel V. Ramos approved Republic Act No. 8544, entitled "An Act Regulating the Practice of the Merchant Marine Profession in the Philippines," otherwise known as the "Philippine Merchant Marine Officers Act of 1998." The law took effect on March 25, 1998, after fifteen (15) days following its publication in the Malaya.[1]

Section 2 of R.A. No. 8544 declares it the policy of the State to "institutionalize radical changes as required by international and national standards to insure that only qualified, competent and globally competitive Marine Deck/Engineer Officers as...