Administrative Code of 1987

by Corazon Aquino

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MALACAÑANG
MANILA

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 292

INSTITUTING THE "ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF 1987"

Whereas, the Administrative Code currently in force was first forged in 1917 when the relationship between the people and the government was defined by the colonial order then prevailing;

Whereas, efforts to achieve an integrative and overall recodification of its provisions resulted in the Administrative Code of 1978 which, however, was never published and later expressly repealed;

Whereas, the effectiveness of the Government will be enhanced by a new Administrative Code which incorporates in a unified document the major structural, functional and procedural principles and rules of governance; and

Whereas, a new Administrative Code will be of optimum benefit to the people and Government officers and employees as it embodies changes in administrative structures and procedures designed to serve the people;

Now, therefore, I, Corazon C. Aquino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby promulgate the Administrative Code of 1987, as follows:

Contents (not listed in original)

• Introductory Provisions
• Book I—Sovereignty and General Administration
• Book II—Distribution of Powers of Government
• Book III—Office of the President
• Book IV—The Executive Branch
• Book V
• Book VI—National Government Budgeting
• Book VII—Administrative Procedure
• Final Provisions

Done in the City of Manila, this 25th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.

(Sgd.) Corazon C. Aquino
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) Joker P. Arroyo
Executive Secretary