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out recovery activities in the affected area, ensuring that there is an efficient
mechanism for immediate delivery of food, shelter and medical supplies for
women and children, endeavor to create a special place where internally-
displaced motherscan find help with breastfeeding, feed and care for their
babies and give support to each other;
Section 17:
Remedial Measures. - The declaration of a state of calamity shall make
mandatory the Immediate undertaking of the following remedial measures
by the member-agencies concerned asdefined in this Act: [...]
(d) Granting of no-interest loans by governmentfinancing or lending
institutions to the most affected section of the population through their
cooperatives or people’s organizations.
Section 19:
Prohibited Acts. - Any person, group or corporation who commits any
of the following prohibited acts shall be held liable and be subjected to
the penalties as prescribed in Section 20 of this Act:
(a)
Dereliction of duties which leads to destruction, loss of lives, critical
damageoffacilities and misuse of funds;
(b)
Preventing the entry anddistribution of relief goods in disasterstricken areas, including appropriate technology, tools, equipment,
accessories, disaster teams/experts;
(c)
Buying, for consumptionorresale, from disaster relief agencies any
relief goods, equipment or other and commodities which are intended
for distribution to disaster affected communities;
(d)
Buying, for consumptionorresale, from the recipient disaster
affected personsany relief goods, equipmentorother aid
commodities received by them;
(e)
Selling of relief goods, equipmentor other aid commodities which
are intended for distribution to disaster victims;
(f)
Forcibly seizing relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities
intended for or consignedto a specific group of victimsorrelief
agency;
(g) Diverting or misdelivery of relief goods, equipmentor other aid
commodities to personsotherthan the rightful recipient or consignee;
(h) Accepting, possessing, using or disposing relief goods, equipmentor
other aid commodities not intended for nor consigned to him/her;
(i)
Misrepresenting the source of relief goods, equipment orotheraid
commodities by:
(1)
Either covering, replacing or defacing the labels of the
containers to makeit appear that the goods, equipmentor other