Country: Philippines                          
Title:    Enforcement of the Rules and Regulations for the Effective
          Implementation of P.D. No. 1006
Author:            Isidro D. . Carino, Secretary,; Ferdinand E. .
        Marcos, President of the Philippines.  
Institution:       DECs
Citations:         DECS Order No. 38, s. 1990.  
Descriptors:       Teacher certification.  
Full text: Section 12.  Registration. - The Civil Service Commission
  shall, as an arm of the Board, register holders of Professional
  Teacher Certificate which registration shall evidence that the
  registrant is entitled to all the rights and privileges of a
  Professional Teacher until and unless the certificate is suspended
  or cancelled by the Board for a just cause.

  Section 13.  Reissuance of revoked certificate and replacement of
  lost certificate. - The Board may, for reason of equity and
  justice, and upon proper application therefor, issue another copy,
  original or duplicate, upon payment of the required fee, of a
  certificate which has been revoked.  A new certificate to replace a
  lost, destroyed or mutilated certificate may be issued subject to
  the rules of the Board.

  Section 14.  Registration by reciprocity. - The Civil Service
  Commission shall, upon approval of the Board, effect the
  registration, without examination, of the teacher validly
  registered under the laws of any foreign  state or country;
  Provided, that the requirements for registration in said foreign
  state or country are substantially the same as those required and
  contemplated by this Decree, and the laws of a  such foreign state
  or country allow citizens of the Philippines to practice the
  profession on the same basis and grant the same privileges as the
  citizens or subjects of such foreign state or country; Provided
  finally, That the applicant shall submit competent and conclusive
  documentary evidence, confirmed by the Department of Foreign
  Affairs, showing that his country's existing laws permit citizens
  of the Philippines to practice teaching profession under the rules
  and regulations governing citizens thereof.

  Section 15.  Prohibition. -  Three years after the effectivity of
  this Decree, no person shall engage in teaching and/or act a
  teacher as defined in this Decree, whether in the public or private
  elementary or secondary school, unless he is a holder of a
  Professional Teacher Certificate or is considered a Professional
  Teacher under this Decree.

  Section 16.  Penal Provisions. -  Any person who shall practice the
  teaching profession without a valid Professional Teacher
  Certificate, or any person presenting as his or her own the
  certificate of another, or any person giving any false or forged
  evidence in order to obtain a Professional Teacher Certificate or
  admission to an examination, or any person assuming himself as a
  registered professional teacher or any person violating any
  provision of this Decree shall be penalized by a fine or not less
  than six months nor more than two years, or both such fine and
  imprisonment at the discretion of the Court.

  Section 17.  Repealing Clause. - All Acts, Decrees, Executive
  orders, Administrative Orders, rules and regulations or parts
  thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Decree are hereby
  repealed or modified accordingly.

  Section 18.  Separability Clause. -  In case any provision of this
  Decree or any portion thereof is declared unconstitutional by a
  competent court, other provisions shall not be affected thereby.

  Section 19.  Effectivity. -  This Decree shall take effect janaury
  1, 1977.

  Done in the City of Manila, this 22nd day of September, in the year
  of our Lord, ninteen hundred and seventy-six.