TWENTIETH CONGRESS 
) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
First Regular Session 
) 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez and 
Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr. 
House Bill No.  3842 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Since the issuance of P. D. No. 1570 otherwise known as the "Philippine Aeronautical 
Engineering Decree" in June 11, 1978, the field of aeronautical science and civil aviation have 
grown tremendously that the said Presidential Decree is no longer adequate to meet the 
challenges of a globalized economy. There is therefore a need to repeal P. D. No. 1570 to 
make it more effective and responsive.  
The bill proposes the following: the professional services offered by Aeronautical 
Engineers shall be grouped into five (5) major activity areas; the Professional Board of 
Aeronautical Engineering shall be strengthened; a Professional Identification Cards shall be 
issued to an examinee who passed the licensure exam; the Aeronautical Engineering 
profession shall be integrated into one national organization which shall be accredited by the 
Board; and there shall be a continuing professional education for practicing Aeronautical 
Engineers.  
By adopting the proposed amendments in this measure, it is hoped that the quality of 
our aeronautical engineers and our civil aviation industry would be at par with international 
standards.  
It is in this light that the immediate passage of this bill is earnestly sought. 
 RUFUS B. RODRIGUEZ 
  MAXIMO B. RODRIGUEZ, JR. 
August 20, 2025
8:00 am


TWENTIETH CONGRESS 
) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
First Regular Session 
) 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez and 
Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr. 
House Bill No.  3842 
AN ACT 
PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF THE REGISTRATION, LICENSING, AND 
PRACTICE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING, REPEALING FOR THE PURPOSE 
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1570, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE "PHILIPPINE 
AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING DECREE"  
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
Assembled:  
ARTICLE I 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as "Aeronautical Engineering Act". 
SEC. 2. Statement of Policy - The State recognizes the important role of Aeronautical 
Engineers in nation, building and development. Hence, it shall develop and  nurture 
competent, virtuous, productive and well-rounded aeronautical engineers whose standards of 
practice and service shall/be excellent, qualitative, world-class and globally 11 competitive 
through inviolable, honest, effective and credible licensure examinations and 12 through 
regulatory measures, programs and activities that foster their professional growth 13 and 
development.  
SEC. 3. Objectives. -This Act shall govern: 
(a) The examination, registration, and licensure;
(b) The supervision, control, and regulation of the practice of aeronautical engineering;
(c) The development and upgrading of the curriculum of the aeronautical engineering
profession; 
(d) The development of the professional competence of aeronautical engineers
through continuing professional education; and 
(e) The integration of the aeronautical engineering profession.
SEC. 4. Definition of Terms. -As used in this Act, the following terms shall be defined as 
follows:  
(1) Aeronautical Engineer-means a person registered and licensed under this Act with
a Certificate of Registration and Professional Identification Card issued by the Professional 
Regulatory Board of Aeronautical Engineering and the Professional Regulation Commission.  
(2) Aeronautical Engineering-the science that deals with the principles of flight and
related engineering principles and their applications to research and development, planning, 
design, manufacture, operation, maintenance, repair, modification and inspection of aircraft, 
spacecraft and their system and components.  
(3) Board-refers to the Professional Regulatory Board of Aeronautical Engineering
created by this Act. 
(4) Commission-refers to the Professional Regulation Commission created by R.A. No.
8981. 


 
 
(5) Aircraft-Any contrivance now known or hereafter to be used, invented or designed 
for navigation or flight in the air.  
(6) CHED-refers to Commission on Higher Education.  
(7) Accredited Professional Organization (APO) -means the integrated national 
organization of all Aeronautical Engineers accredited by the Board and the Commission 
pursuant to this Act.  
(8) Continuing Professional Education (CPE) -refers to inculcation, assimilation and 
acquisition of knowledge, skills proficiency and ethical and moral values that raise and 
enhance the Aeronautical Engineers' technical skills and competence.  
 
SEC. 5. Scope of Practice. - Practice of Aeronautical Engineering. The act of rendering or 
offering to render professional services as an aeronautical engineer on a fee basis, or 
otherwise, in the form of direct work participation, consultancy, supervision, or management, 
such as planning, designing, analysing, constructing, assembling, installing, altering, 
maintaining or operating of aircraft, its structures, power plant or accessories through scientific 
or accepted engineering practice, or the teaching of the same in any university, college, 
institute, or school of learning duly recognized by Government of the Philippines.  
The professional services offered by an aeronautical engineer could be grouped into, 
but not limited to, the following five (5) major activity areas, namely:  
 (1) Research and Development  
(2) Manufacture of Aircraft  
(3) Aircraft Operation  
(4) Aircraft Maintenance  
(5) Education and Training  
 
ARTICLE II 
PROFESSIONAL BOARD OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING 
 
SEC. 6. Creation and Composition of the Professional Board of Aeronautical 
Engineering. -There is hereby created the Professional Regulatory Board of Aeronautical 
Engineering, hereinafter referred to as the Board, a collegial body under the supervision and 
administrative control of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). Hereinafter referred 
to as the Commission, to be composed of a chairman and two (2) members appointed by the 
President of the Philippines from a list of three (3) recommendees for. each position submitted 
by the Commission from the list of five (5) nominees for each position forwarded thereto by 
the accredited professional organization (APO) for aeronautical engineers. 
 
SEC. 7. Qualifications of Members of the Board. -Each member shall, at the time of his/her 
appointment possesses the following qualifications:  
 (a) be a citizen and a resident of the Philippines;  
 (b) be a holder of a degree of Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering 
conferred by a school, college or university in the Philippines or abroad that is recognized 
and/or accredited by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED);  
 (c) be an aeronautical engineer with a valid Certificate of Registration and Professional 
Identification Card and active practitioner of aeronautical engineering for at least ten (10) years 
on the date of his/her appointment;  
 (d) not an elective officer of the accredited professional organization for aeronautical 
engineers during the time of nomination;  
 (e) not a member of the faculty of any school, college, university or review institution 
where a regular course or review course in aeronautical engineering is taught, nor have 
pecuniary interest in such institution; and  
 (f) has never been convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude.  
 


 
 
SEC. 8. Term of Office. -The members of the Board shall hold office for a term of three (3) 
years after appointment or until their successors shall have been appointed and duly qualified. 
Each member of the Board may be reappointed for one full term of three (3) years.  
Of the members of the Board first created under this Act. one member shall be 
appointed and hold office as chairman for three (3) years, one member for two (2) years, and 
one member for one (1) year; Provided, the incumbent members of the Board appointed under 
P.D. No. 1570 shall continue to serve under this new Board for the remainder of their term or 
until the chairman and members of such Board shall have been organized.  
In case of vacancy by reason of death, resignation, or removal of an incumbent 
Member, the same shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of the previous 
incumbent. Each member of the board shall qualify by taking the proper oath of the office 
before entering upon the performance of his duties.  
 
SEC. 9. Powers and Duties of the Board. -The Board shall exercise the following specific 
powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities:  
(a) Promulgate and adopt the rules and regulations necessary for carrying out the 
provisions of this Act;  
(b) Regulate the registration, licensure, and practice of aeronautical engineering;  
(c) Administer oaths in connection with the administration of this Act;  
(d) Issue, suspend, revoke, or reinstate the Certificate of Registration and the 
Professional Identification Card for the practice of the aeronautical engineering profession;  
(e) Adopt an official seal of the Board;  
(f) Study and monitor the conditions affecting the practice of aeronautical engineering 
and adopt such measures as may be deemed necessary for the advancement of ethical and 
technical standards of the profession;  
(g) Hear and decide administrative cases involving violations of this Act, its 
implementing rules and regulations. the Code of Ethics, the Code of Technical Standards of 
Professional Practice and for this purpose, to issue subpoena ad testificandum and subpoena 
duces tecum to secure the appearance of witnesses and the production of documents in 
connection therewith; Provided, That the decision of the Board shall, unless appealed to the 
Commission, become final and executor after fifteen (15) days from receipt of notice of 
judgment or decision. The decision of the Commission may be appealed to the Court of 
Appeals in accordance with the procedure under the Rules of Court;  
(h) Prescribe guidelines for the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) program in 
consultation with the accredited professional organization for aeronautical engineers:  
(i) Prepare, adopt, issue or amend the syllabi of the subjects for examinations by 
determining and preparing questions which shall be within the scope of the syllabi of the 
subject for examination as well as administer, correct and release the results of the licensure 
examinations;  
(j) Approve, issue, limit or cancel temporary or special permit to practice aeronautical 
engineering; 
(k) conduct inspection or visit public or private institutions or corporations especially 
those operating in the aviation and airline industryto determine compliance with this Act and 
the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, or to serve as an aid in formulating, 
amending, or revising policies of the Board;  
(l) In coordination with the CHED, ensure that all higher educational instruction and 
offerings for aeronautical engineering comply with the policies, standards, and requirements 
of the course prescribed by the CHED in the areas of curriculum, faculty, library and facilities, 
and for this purpose visit and inspect the same. The board may deny admission to the 
licensure examinations graduates of universities, colleges, institutes or schools found deficient 
of the essential and minimum requirements.  
(m) Adopt a program for the full computerization of the licensure examination; and  
(n) Discharge such other duties and functions as may be deemed necessary for the 
enhancement of the aeronautical engineering profession and the upgrading, development and 
growth of the aeronautical engineering education.  


 
 
 
The policies, resolutions, rules and regulations, issued or promulgated by the Board 
shall be subject to review and approval of the Commission. However the Board's decisions, 
resolutions or orders rendered in administrative cases which are not interlocutory shall be 
subject to review only if on appeal.  
 
SEC. 10. Administrative Supervision of the Board, Custodian of its Records, Secretariat 
and Support Services. - The Board shall be under the administrative supervision of the 
Commission. All records of the Board, including applications for examination, and 
administrative and other investigative cases conducted by the Board shall be under the 
custody of the Commission. The Commission shall designate the Secretary of the Board and 
shall provide the secretariat and other support services to implement the provisions of this Act. 
 
SEC. 11. Grounds for Suspension or Removal of Members of the Board.-The President 
of the Philippines, upon the recommendation of the Commission, after giving the concerned 
member an opportunity to defend himself herself in a proper administrative  investigation to 
be conducted by the Commission, may suspend or remove any member on  the following 
grounds:  
(a) Neglect of duty or incompetence;  
(b) Violation, or tolerance of the violation, of this Act, or its implementing rules and  
regulations or the Code of Ethics, and the Code of Technical Standards of Professional  
Practice;   
(c) Final judgment of crimes involving moral turpitude; and  
(d) Manipulation or rigging of the Aeronautical Engineering licensure examination 
results, disclosure of secret and confidential information in the examination questions prior to 
the conduct of the said examination or tampering of grades.  
 
SEC. 12. Compensation and Allowances of the Board. -The chairman and members of the 
Board shall receive compensation and allowances comparable to that being received by the 
chairman and members of existing regulatory. Boards under the Commission as provided for 
in the General Appropriations Act.  
 
SEC. 13. Annual Report. -The Board shall submit an annual report to the Commission after 
the close of each year giving a detailed account of its proceedings and accomplishments 
during the year and making such recommendations as it may deem proper. 
 
ARTICLE III 
EXAMINATION, REGISTRATION AND LICENSURE 
 
SEC. 14. Examination Required. -All applicants for registration for the practice of 
Aeronautical Engineering shall be required to undergo a licensure examination to be given by 
the Board in such places and dates as the Commission may designate in accordance with the 
provisions of R.A. No. 8981. 
 
SEC. 15. Qualifications of Applicant for Examination. -Any person applying for 
examination shall establish to the satisfaction of the Board that:  
(a) He/she is a Filipino citizen or a citizen of a foreign country or state which has 
reciprocity with the Philippines in the practice of the aeronautical engineering;  
(b) He / she is of good moral character;  
(c) He/she is a holder of the degree of Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering 
conferred by a School, college, academy or institute duly recognized and/or accredited by the 
Commission on Higher Education (CHED) or of an equivalent course offered in any institution 
of learning in a foreign country state, if the applicant is a foreigner, subject to the provisions of 
the existing laws; and  
(d) He/she has not been convicted of any criminal offense involving moral turpitude.  


 
 
 
SEC. 16. Subjects for Examination. -The licensure examination for Aeronautical! Engineers 
shall cover, but are not limited to, the following subjects:  
(a) Mathematics;  
(b) Aerodynamics;  
(c) Aircraft Structures and Design;  
(d) Aircraft Powerplant and Propulsion System.  
(e) Air Laws and Regulations, Engineering Economics, Management and Ethics; and  
(f) Aircraft Materials, Construction, Modifications and Repair.  
 
The Board, subject to the approval of the Commission, may revise or exclude any of 
the subjects and their syllabi, and add new ones as the need arises to conform to technological 
changes brought about by continuing trends in the profession.  
 
SEC. 17. Rating in the Licensure Examination. -To be qualified as having passed the 
licensure examination for Aeronautical Engineers, a candidate must obtain a weighted general 
average of seventy five percent (75%), with no grade lower than fifty percent (50%) in any 
subject.  
 
SEC. 18. Report of Ratings. -The Board shall submit to the Commission the ratings obtained 
by each candidate within ten (10) calendar days after the examination, unless extended for 
just cause.  
 
SEC. 19. Oath. -All successful candidates in the examination shall be required to take an oath 
of profession before any member of the Board, any officer of the Commission authorized by it 
or any person authorized by law to administer oaths, prior to entering upon the practice of the 
profession.  
 
SEC. 20. Issuance of Certificates of Registration and Professional Identification Card. 
A certificate of Registration shall be issued to examinees who pass the licensure examination 
subject to payment of fees prescribed by the Commission. The Certificate of Registration shall 
bear the signature of the chairperson of the Commission and the chairman and members of 
the Board, stamped with the official seal of the Commission and of the Board, indicating that 
the person named therein is entitled to the practice of the profession with all the privileges 
appurtenant thereto. The said certificate shall remain in full force and effect until withdrawn, 
suspended or revoked in accordance with this Act.  
A Professional Identification Card bearing the registration number, date of issuance, 
expiry date, duly signed by the chairperson of the Commission shall likewise be issued to 
every registrant who has paid the prescribed fee.  
 
SEC. 21. Roster of Aeronautical Engineers. - The Board shall prepare and maintain a roster 
of the names residence and/or office address of all registered Aeronautical Engineers, which 
shall be updated annually in cooperation with the Accredited Professional Organization (APO). 
indicating therein the status of the Certificate of Registration, Professional Identification Card 
and membership in the Accredited Professional Organization (APO) for aeronautical 
engineers whether valid, inactive due to death or other reasons, delinquent, suspended or 
revoked. The said roster shall be conspicuously posted within the premises of the Commission 
and the information therefrom made available to the public upon inquiry or request.  
 
SEC. 22. Seal Issuance and Use of Seal. -A duly registered and licensed Aeronautical 
Engineer shall affix the seal prescribed by the Board bearing the registrant's name, registration 
number and title "Aeronautical Engineer" on air/aeronautical engineering plans, drawings, 
specifications and all other contract documents prepared by or under his/her direct 
supervision.  


 
 
a) Each registrant hereunder shall, upon registration, obtain a seal of such design as 
the Board shall authorize and direct. Aeronautical Engineering plans and specifications 
prepared by, or under the direct supervision of a registered and licensed aeronautical engineer 
shall be stamped with said seal during the life of the registrants certificate, and it shall be 
unlawful for anyone to stamp or seal any documents with said seal after the certificate of the 
registrant named thereon has expired or has been revoked, unless said certificate shall have 
been renewed or re-issued.  
b) No officer or employee of this Republic, chartered cities, provinces and 
municipalities, now or hereafter charged with the enforcement of laws, ordinances or 
regulations relating to the practice of Aeronautical Engineering, shall accept, endorse or 
approve any aeronautical engineering plans, drawings, designs, reports or specifications 
which have not been prepared and submitted in full accord with all the provisions of this Act; 
nor shall any payments be approved by any such officer for any work, the plans and 
specifications for which have not been so prepared and signed and sealed by the author.  
(c) All aeronautical engineering plans, designs, specifications, drawings and 
aeronautical engineering documents relative to the practice of aeronautical engineering shall 
bear the seal and Signature only of an aeronautical engineer registered and licensed under 
this Act together with his/her professional identification card number and the date of its 
expiration.  
 
SEC. 23. Indication of Certificate of Registration/Professional Identification Card and 
Professional Tax Receipt. -The aeronautical engineer shall be required to indicate his/her 
Certificate of Registration and Professional Identification Card Number, its date of issuance 
and the duration of validity, including the professional tax receipt number, on the documents 
he/she signs, uses or issues in connection with the practice of his/her profession.  
 
SEC. 24. Refusal to Issue Certificate of Registration and Professional Identification 
Card. -The Board shall not register and issue a Certificate of Registration and Professional 
Identification Card to any person who has falsely sworn or misrepresented himself/herself in 
his/her application for examination or to any person convicted by a court of competent 
jurisdiction of a criminal offense involving moral turpitude or guilty of immoral and 
dishonourable conduct or to any person of unsound mind. In the event of refusal to issue 
certificate for any reason, the Board shall give the applicant a written statement setting forth 
the reasons for such action, which statement shall be incorporated in the record of the Board.  
 
SEC. 
25. 
Suspension 
and 
Revocation 
of 
Certificates 
of 
Registration, 
Professional/identifications Card or the Special Temporary Permit. -The Board shall have 
the power, upon notice and hearing, to revoke or suspend a Certificate of Registration or to 
cancel a special permit granted under this Act to an aeronautical engineer, on any ground 
mentioned hereof fur the use of or perpetuation of any fraud or deceit in obtaining a Certificate 
of Registration and Professional Identification Card or special/temporary permit; for gross 
negligence or incompetence; for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct; or refusal to join and 
to remain a member of good standing of the integrated professional organization of 
aeronautical engineering accredited by the Commission, or for any cause specified hereunder; 
Provided, however, That such action of the Board shall be subject to appeal to the Commission 
whose decision shall be final if he/she:  
 
(a) has signed and affixed or permitted to be signed or affixed his name or seal on 
aeronautical engineering plans and designs, specifications, drawings, technical reports, 
valuation, estimates, or other similar documents or work not prepared by him/her or not 
executed under his/her immediate supervision; or  
(b) has paid money except the regular fees provided for to secure a Certificate of 
Registration; or  


 
 
(c) has falsely impersonated a practitioner, or former practitioner of alike or different 
name or has practiced under an assumed, fictitious or corporate name other than that of the 
registered; or  
(d) has aided or abetted in the practice of Aeronautical Engineering any person not 
duly authorized to practice Aeronautical Engineering in the Philippines; or  
(e) has openly solicited projects by actually undertaking aeronautical engineering 
services without a valid service agreement guaranteeing compensation of services to be 
rendered and/or has actually allowed himself/herself to be exploited by undertaking 
aeronautical engineering services without a valid service agreement, both acts being 
prejudicial to other Aeronautical Engineer registered and licensed under this Act and inimical 
to the interests of the profession; or  
(f) has violated any provision of this Act, its implementing rules and regulations, the 
Code of Ethics and Code of Technical Standards of Professional Practice,  
 
The Board shall periodically examine the grounds for the revocation of the Certificate 
of Registration and update these as necessary under the implementing rules and regulations.  
Any person, firm or association, may prepare charges in accordance with the 
provisions of this section against any registrant, or the Board may motu proprio investigate 
and/or take cognizance of acts and practices constituting sufficient cause for suspension or 
revocation of the Certificate of Registration by proper resolution or order. Such charges shall 
be in writing and shall be sworn to by the person making them and shall be filed with the 
Secretary of the Board or the Legal and Investigation Division.  
 
SEC. 26. Reinstatement or Replacement of Revoked! Suspended or Lost Certificates of 
Registration, Professional Identification Card or Special and Temporary Permit -The 
Board may, after the expiration of two (2) years from the date of revocation a Certificate of 
Registration, and upon application and for reasons deemed proper and sufficient, reinstate of 
a revoked Certificate of Registration and in so doing may, in its discretion, exempt the 
applicant from taking another examination.  
A new Certificate of Registration or Professional Identification Card, temporary/special 
permit to replace those which have been lost, destroyed, or mutilated, may be re-issued, 
subject to the rules promulgated by the Board and the Commission, upon payment of the 
required fees.  
 
ARTlCLE IV 
PRACTICE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING 
 
SEC. 27. Registration of Aeronautical Engineers Required. -No person shall practice 
Aeronautical Engineering in this country, or engage in preparing aeronautical engineering 
plans, specifications or preliminary data, or use the title "Aeronautical engineer", or display the 
word "Aeronautical engineer" together with another word, or display or use any title, sign, card, 
advertisement, or other device to indicate such person practices or offers to practice 
Aeronautical Engineering, or is an aeronautical engineer, unless such person shall have 
received from the Board a Certificate of Registration and a Professional Identification  Card in 
the manner hereinafter provided and shall thereafter comply with the provisions of this Act.  
A foreign aeronautical engineer, or any person, not authorized to practice Aeronautical 
Engineering in the Philippines, who shall stay in the country and perform any of the activities 
mentioned in Section 25 of this Act, or any other activity analogous  thereto, shall be deemed 
engaged in the unauthorized practice of Aeronautical Engineering.  
 
SEC 28. Posting Certificates. -The owner, manager or other person in-charge of any aircraft 
or of firm, co-partnership, corporation, or joint corporation operating an aircraft shall post or 
cause to be posted in any conspicuous place within such station or establishment the 
certificate of registration of the aeronautical engineer employed in such station or 
establishments. 


 
 
 
SEC. 29. Vested Rights. Aeronautical Engineers Registered When This Law is passed. 
-All Aeronautical Engineers registered at the time this law takes effect shall automatically be 
registered under the provisions hereof, subject, however, to the provisions herein set forth as 
to future requirements.  
Certificate of Registration and Professional Identification Card held by such persons in 
good standing shall have the same force and effect as though issued after the passage of this 
Act. .  
 
SEC. 30. Reciprocity Requirements. -A person who is not a citizen of the Philippines at the 
time he/she applies to take the examination shall not be allowed to take  the licensure 
examination unless he/she can prove, in the manner provided by the Rules of  Court that, by 
specific provision of law, the .country of which he/she is a citizen, subject or  national either 
admits citizens of the Philippines to the practice of the same profession  without restriction or 
allows them to practice it after passing an examination on terms of strict and absolute equality 
with citizens; subjects or nationals of the country concerned, including  the unconditional 
recognition of prerequisite degrees/diplomas issued by the institutions of  learning duly 
recognized for the purpose by the Government of the Philippines.  
 
SEC. 31. Continuing Professional Education (CPE). -To promote public interest and to 
organization safeguard life, health and property, all practicing Aeronautical Engineers 46 shall 
maintain a program of continuing professional education. The integrated and accredited 47 
professional organization and other entity/accredited providers by the Continuing Professional 
Education (CPE) Council shall have the responsibility of developing a continuing professional 
development program for Aeronautical Engineers.  
 
SEC. 32. Prohibition in the Practice of Aeronautical Engineering and Penal Clause. -Any 
person who shall practice or offer to practice Aeronautical Engineering in the Philippines 
without being registered and licensed and who are not holders of temporary or special permits 
in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or any person presenting or attempting to use as 
his/her own the Certificate of Registration/Professional Identification Card or seal of another 
or temporary /special permit of another, or any person who shall give any false or forged 
evidence of any kind to the Board or to any member thereof in obtaining a Certificate of 
Registration Professional Identification Card or temporary or special permit, or any person 
who shall falsely impersonate any registrant of like or different name, or any person who shall 
attempt to use a revoked or suspended Certificate of Registration/Professional Identification 
Card or cancelled special temporary permit, or any person who shall use in connection with 
his/her name or otherwise assume, use or advertise any title or description tending to convey 
the impression that he/she is an aeronautical engineer when he/she is not in fact an 
aeronautical engineer, or any person whether Filipino or foreigner, who knowingly allows the 
use, adoption, implementation of plans, designs or specifications made by any person, firm, 
partnership or company not duly licensed to engage in the practice of Aeronautical 
Engineering, or any person who shall violate any of the provisions on this Act, its implementing 
rules and regulations, or any policy of the Board and the Commission, shall be guilty of 
misdemeanour and charged in court by the Commission and shall, upon conviction be 
sentenced to a fine of not less than One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00) but not more 
than Five million pesos (P5,000,000.00) or imprisonment for a period not less than six (6) 
months but not exceeding six (6) years or both, at the discretion of the Court.  
 
SEC. 33. Prohibition in the Practice of Aeronautical Engineering. -Any person or entity, 
whether public or private, Filipino or foreigner, who/which shall entice, compel, coerce, require 
or otherwise force an aeronautical engineer registered and licensed under this Act to 
undertake/perform any service under the general practice of Aeronautical Engineering as 
defined under this Act, without first executing a written contract service agreement, shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanour and shall, upon conviction be sentenced to a fine of not less than 


 
 
Two hundred thousand pesos (P200,000.00) or to suffer imprisonment for a period not 
exceeding six (6) years, or both, at the discretion of the Court.  
 
SEC. 34. Liability of Representatives of Non-Registered Persons. -It shall be unlawful for 
any person or firm or corporation to seek to avoid the provisions of this Act by having a 
representative or employee seek aeronautical engineering work in their behalf, unless and 
until, such persons have duly qualified and duly registered/licensed Aeronautical Engineer, 
otherwise, both those represented and the representative, the employer and the employee 
shall be deemed guilty of violation of this Act. Solicitation of aeronautical engineering work 
shall be construed as offering to practice Aeronautical Engineering and shall be unlawful for 
any non-registered and unlicensed persons to do so.  
 
SEC. 35. Signing of Aeronautical Engineering Plans, Specifications and Other Contract 
Documents. -It shall be unlawful for any aeronautical engineer to sign his/her name, affix 
his/her seal, or use other method of signature on aeronautical engineering plans, 
specifications or other aeronautical engineering documents made under another aeronautical 
engineer's supervision, unless the same is made in such manner as to clearly indicate the part 
or parts of such work actually performed by the former; and it shall be unlawful for any person, 
except the Aeronautical engineer-of-record to sign for any branch of  the work, or any function 
or aeronautical engineering practice, not actually performed by him/her. The Aeronautical 
engineer-of-record shall be fully responsible for all aeronautical engineering plans, 
specifications, and other documents issued under his/her seal or authorized signature.  
All reports, plans, specifications, drawings, designs and other related documents 
pertaining, but not limited to major structural repair, major structural modifications, major 
system repair and modifications, operational limitations, aircraft performance classifications, 
weight and balance data limits and computations, shall bear the signature and seal of 
registered and licensed aeronautical engineer.  
The Board shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations as regards to the 
signing and sealing of drawings, specifications, reports, and other documents.  
 
SEC. 36. Ownership of Plans, Specifications and Other Contract Documents. -Drawings 
and specifications and other contract documents duly signed, stamped or sealed, as 
instruments of service, are the intellectual property and documents of the aeronautical 
engineer, whether the object for which they are made is executed or not. It shall be unlawful 
for any person to duplicate or to make copies of said documents for use in the repetition of 
and for other projects or design, whether executed partly or in whole, without the written 
consent of the aeronautical engineer or author of said documents.  
All Registered and Licensed Aeronautical Engineers shall incorporate this provision in 
all contract documents and other instruments of service.  
 
SEC. 37. Non-Registered Person shall not Claim Equivalent Service.-Persons not 
registered as an aeronautical engineer shall not claim nor represent either services or work 
as equivalent to those of a duly registered and licensed aeronautical engineer, or that they are 
qualified for any branch or function of aeronautical engineering practice even though no form 
of the title Aeronautical engineer" is used.  
 
SEC. 38. Positions in Government Requiring the Services of Registered and Licensed 
Aeronautical Engineers. --Within three (3) years from the effectivity of this Act, all existing 
and proposed positions in the local and national government including government regulatory 
agency such as Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, whether career, permanent, 
temporary or contractual and primarily requiring the services of an aeronautical engineer shall 
be filled only by registered and licensed Aeronautical Engineers.  
 


 
 
SEC. 39. Collection of Professional Fees. -It shall be unlawful for any unregistered person 
to collect a fee for aeronautical engineering services except as an employee collecting a fee 
as representative of a Registered and Licensed Aeronautical engineer.  
 
SEC. 40. Limitation to the Registration of a Firm, Company, Partnership, Corporation or 
Association. -The practice of Aeronautical Engineering is a professional service, admission 
to which shall be determined upon the basis of individual personal qualifications. However, a 
firm, company, partnership, corporation or association may be registered or licensed as such 
for the practice of Aeronautical Engineering under the following conditions:  
 
a) Only Filipino citizens properly registered and licensed as Aeronautical Engineers 
under this Act may, among themselves, or together with allied technical professionals, form 
and obtain registration as a firm, company, partnership, association or corporation for the 
practice of Aeronautical Engineering;  
b) Registered and licensed Aeronautical Engineers shall compose at least seventy-
five percent (75%) of the owners, or shareholders, or members, or directors, or executive 
officers, as the case may be;  
c) Individual members of such firm, partnership, association or corporation shall be 
responsible for their individual and collective acts as an entity and as provided by law;  
d) Such firm, partnership, association or corporation shall be registered with the 
Securities and Exchange Commission and the Board.  
 
SEC. 41. Coverage of Temporary/Special Permits. -Foreign nationals who have gained 
entry in the Philippines to perform professional services as Aeronautical Engineers or 
consultants in foreign-funded or assisted projects of the government or employed or engaged 
by Filipino or foreign contractors or private firms, shall, before assuming the duties, functions 
and responsibilities as Aeronautical Engineers or consultants, secure a special temporary 
permit from the Board subject to approval of the Commission, to practice his/her profession in 
connection with the project to which he/she was commissioned: Provided, That a foreign 
national or foreign firm, whose name or company name, with the title aeronautical engineer, 
aeronautical engineering consultant, design consultant, consultant or designer appears on 
aeronautical engineering plans, specifications and other related technical documents, for 
securing permits, licenses and government authority clearances for actual practice of 
aeronautical engineering in the Philippines and advertisements and billboards for marketing 
purposes, shall be deemed practicing Aeronautical Engineering in the Philippines, whether 
the contract for professional services is consummated in the Philippines or in a foreign country. 
Provided, further, That the following conditions are satisfied as follows:  
(a) That he/she is a citizen or subject of a country which specifically permits Filipino 
professionals to practice his/her profession within its territorial limits, on the same basis as the 
subjects or citizens of such foreign state or country;  
(b) That he/she is legally qualified to practice Aeronautical Engineering in his/her own 
country, and that his/her expertise is necessary and advantageous to our country particularly 
in the aspects of technology transfer and specialization;  
(c) That foreign nationals shall be required to work with a Filipino counterpart and shall 
also be responsible for public liabilities and taxes due to the Philippine government, relative to 
their participation in, or professional services rendered to the project, in accordance with the 
established implementing rules and regulations providing for the procedure for the registration 
and/or issuance of temporary/special permits to foreign Aeronautical Engineers allowed by 
law to practice their profession in the Philippines by the Board of Aeronautical Engineering 
and the Accredited Professional Organization (APO); and  
 
(d) Agencies, organizations or individuals whether public or private, who secure the 
services of a foreign professional authorized by law to practice in the Philippines for reasons  


 
 
aforementioned, shall be responsible for securing a special permit from the Professional  
Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)  
pursuant to PRC and DOLE rules.  
 
SEC. 42. Liability Insurance of a Person or Entity Allowed to Practice under a 
Temporary/Special Permit. -Foreign nationals, including former Filipinos wanting to  engage 
in the general practice of Aeronautical Engineering as defined in Section 41 (c) of this  Act 
must secure locally their professional liability insurance or malpractice insurance or their  
acceptable equivalent in bond form commensurate with the nature and magnitude of their 
project involvement and their compensation the implementing rules and regulations for such  
a requirement for practice shall be implemented by the Board in consultation with the  
integrated and accredited professional organization of Aeronautical Engineers within six (6) 
months from the effectivity of this Act.  
 
ARTICLE V 
FINAL PROVISIONS 
 
SEC. 43. Integration of the Aeronautical Engineering Profession. -The Aeronautical 
Engineering profession shall be integrated into one (1) national organization which shall be 
accredited by the Board, subject to the approval by the Commission, as the integrated and 
accredited professional organization of Aeronautical Engineers: Provided, however, That such 
an organization shall be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as a non-
profit, non-stock corporation to be governed by by-laws providing for a democratic election of 
its officials. An aeronautical engineer duly registered with the Board shall automatically 
become a member of the integrated and accredited professional organization of Aeronautical 
Engineers and shalt receive the benefits and privileges provided for in this Act upon payment 
of the required fees and dues.  
The CPE Council composed of the Chairman/Member of the Board, the President or  
designated Officer of the Accredited Professional Organization and the President or  
designated officer of the association of deans/heads of schools/colleges offering the course 
shall implement the continuing professional education, accredit other organizations or entities 
to provide continuing professional education, promulgated by the Board and/or the 
Commission, compliance with which shall be a requirement for the renewal of the Professional 
Identification Card and one of the requisites for the maintenance of membership in good 
standing of the professional' in the Accredited Professional  Organization. All members of good 
standing of this Accredited Professional Organization shall be issued an annual membership 
card indicating the membership number and validity period of the membership. Failure to 
maintain membership in good standing in the Accredited Professional Organization shall be a 
cause for listing of the individual as delinquent in the roster of professionals.  
 
SEC. 44. Implementing Rules and Regulations. -Within ninety (90) days after the effectivity 
of this Act, the Board, subject to the approval of the Commission and in consultation with the 
integrated and accredited professional organization, shall adopt and promulgate such rules 
and regulations, Code of Ethics and Code of Technical Standards of Professional Practice, to 
canny out the provisions of this Act which shall be effective after fifteen (15) days following 
their publication in the Official Gazette or in two (2) major daily newspapers of general 
circulation.  
 
SEC. 45. Appropriations. -The Chairperson of the Professional Regulation Commission shall 
immediately include in the Commission's programs the implementation of this Act, the funding 
of which shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.  
 
SEC. 46. Act Not Affecting Other Professional/s. - This Act shall not be construed to affect 
or prevent the practice of any other legally recognized and regulated profession.  
 


 
 
SEC. 47. Enforcement of the Act. -It shall be the primary duty of the Commission and the 
Board to effectively enforce the provisions of this Act. All duly constituted law enforcement 
agencies and officers of national, provincial, city or municipal government or of any 
government regulatory agency for aircraft operation such as Civil Aviation Authority of the 
Philippines, shall enforce the provisions of this Act and to prosecute any person violating the 
provisions of the same. The Secretary of Justice or his duly designated representative shall 
act as legal adviser to the Commission and the Board, and shall render legal assistance as 
may be necessary in carrying out the provisions of this Act.  
Any person may bring before the Commission, Board or the aforementioned officers 
of the law, cases of illegal practice or violations of this Act committed by any person or party.  
The Board shall assist the Commission in filing the appropriate charges through the 
concerned prosecution office in accordance with this Act and the Rules of Court.  
 
SEC. 48. Separability Clause. If any clause, provision, paragraph or part hereof shall be 
declared unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, invalidate or impair any 
other part hereof, but such judgment shall be merely confined to the clause, provision, 
paragraph or part directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment has been 
rendered.  
 
SEC. 49. Repealing Clause. ¬Presidential Decree No. 1570 is hereby repealed. All other 
laws, executive orders, rules and regulations or parts thereof in conflict with the provisions of 
this Act are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.  
 
SEC. 50. Effectivity. -This Act shall take effect after fifteen (15) days following its full and 
complete publication in the Official Gazette or in two (2) newspapers of general circulation.  
 
Approved,