Section 9Sec./Art. 9

Subscription by Private Investors.- No private person, natural or juridical, shall, directly or indirectly, by interlocking directorate or other forms of combinations, by trust, subscription, purchase, lease, mortgage, pledge, or other means of acquisition or encumbrance, own at any one time more than ten percent (10%) of the portion of the Corporation's authorized capital stock that can be subscribed solely by small farmers, fisherfolk, their cooperatives and other private investors.

The Corporation in consultation with the Securities and Exchange Commission shall prescribe within sixty (60) days from the effectivity of this Act, implementing rules and regulations which will assure strict observance of the herein section by private investors and stock exchanges, stock-brokers, traders and personnel thereof, if the Corporation is listed in such exchanges for the trading of its shares therein under Section 10 hereof. Violation of any provision of the herein section or its implementing rules and regulations shall be punishable under Section 185 of the Revised Penal Code or, whenever applicable, the Anti-graft and Corrupt Practices Act.