2. SECTION 90.
Principles of Open Market
Operations.
—The open market purchases and
sales of securities by the Bangko
Sentral shall be made exclusively in
accordance with its primary
objective of achieving price
stability.

4. SECTION 91
Purchases and Sales of Government
Securities.
— In order to achieve the objectives of the
national monetary policy, the Bangko
Sentral may, in accordance with the
principle stated in Section 90 of this Act
and with such rules and regulations as
may be prescribed by the Monetary
Board, buy and sell in the open market
for its own account:

5. • (a) evidences of indebtedness
issued directly by the Government
of the Philippines or by its political
subdivisions; and
• (b) evidences of indebtedness
issued by government
instrumentalities and fully
guaranteed by the Government.

6. • The evidences of indebtedness
acquired under the provisions of this
section must be freely negotiable
and regularly serviced and must be
available to the general public
through banking institutions and
local government treasuries in
denominations of a thousand pesos
or more.

7. SECTION 92.
Issue and Negotiation of Bangko Sentral
Obligations.
— In order to provide the Bangko Sentral with
effective instruments for open market
operations, the Bangko Sentral may, subject
to such rules and regulations as the
Monetary Board may prescribe and in
accordance with the principles stated in
Section 90 of this Act, issue, place, buy and
sell freely negotiable evidences of
indebtedness of the Bangko Sentral:

8. • Provided, That issuance of such certificates
of indebtedness shall be made only in cases
of extraordinary movement in price levels.
Said evidences of indebtedness may be
issued directly against the international
reserve of the Bangko Sentral or against the
securities which it has acquired under the
provisions of Section 91 of this Act, or may
be issued without relation to specific types
of assets of the Bangko Sentral.

9. • The Monetary Board shall
determine the interest rates,
maturities and other characteristics
of said obligations of the Bangko
Sentral, and may, if it deems it
advisable, denominate the
obligations in gold or foreign
currencies.

10. • Subject to the principles stated in Section
90 of this Act, the evidences of
indebtedness of the Bangko Sentral to
which this section refers may be acquired
by the Bangko Sentral before their
maturity, either through purchases in the
open market or through redemptions at
par and by lot if the Bangko Sentral has
reserved the right to make such
redemptions.

11. • The evidences of indebtedness
acquired or redeemed by the
Bangko Sentral shall not be
included among its assets, and shall
be immediately retired and
cancelled.

13. SECTION 93.
Review of the Bangko Sentral's
Portfolio.
— At least once every month the
Monetary Board shall review the
portfolio of the Bangko Sentral in
relation to its future credit policy.

14. • In reviewing the Bangko Sentral's
portfolio, the Monetary Board shall
especially consider whether a sufficiently
large part of the portfolio consists of
assets with early maturities, in order that
a contraction in Bangko Sentral credit
may be effected promptly whenever the
national monetary policy so requires..