Republic Act No. 8438/Article XIII

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Source: Official Gazette. Vol. 94, No. 20. Manila. National Printing Office. 1998. pp. 3547–3548.

4565381Republic Act No. 8438 — Article XIII1997Congress of the Philippines

Article—XIII

General Provisions

Section 1. This Organic Act shall be officially promulgated in Filipino and English and translated into the languages or dialects widely spoken in the autonomous region. In case of conflict, the English text shall prevail.

Sec. 2. For purposes of qualification for any elective or appointive public office in the Cordillera Autonomous Region, the person to be elected or appointed must have resided in the region for at least (5) years immediately preceding the election or appointment.

Sec. 3. The Congress may, upon recommendation of the Cordillera Assembly, adopt a new name for the Cordillera Autonomous Region.

Sec. 4. The regional government shall have a regional emblem and hymn.

This work is in the public domain because it is a work of the Philippine government (see Republic Act No. 8293 Sec. 176).

All official Philippine texts of a legislative, administrative, or judicial nature, or any official translation thereof, are ineligible for copyright.

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