The Supreme Court maintains that certain provisions of Republic Act No. 9167, the law that created the Film Development Council of the Philippines, are unconstitutional.
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In a decision penned by Associate Justice Estela Perlas Bernabe, the SC said Sections 13 and 14 of Republic Act No. 9167 infringe on the principle of local autonomy as mandated by the 1987 Constitution. "This, undoubtedly, is a usurpation of the latter's exclusive prerogative to apportion their funds, an impermissible intrusion into the LGU's constitutionally protected domain which puts to naught the guarantee of fiscal autonomy to municipal corporations enshrined in our basic law," the decision read."On the constitutionality issue, FDCP's arguments in its motion are mere rehash of its position in the main and hence, cannot be sustained," said the Court.
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