AGRARIAN LAW c) Acquire, by purchase or grant, real estate properties suited for

agriculture that have been foreclosed by the national government;

IX IMPLEMENTATION d) Undertake land consolidation, land reclamation, land forming, and
conservation in areas subject to agrarian reform;
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 129-A July 26, 1987 e) Facilitate the compensation of landowners covered by agrarian
MODIFYING ORDER NO. 129 REORGANIZING AND reform;
STRENGTHENING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM f) Issue emancipation patents to farmers and farmworkers who have
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES been given lands under the agrarian reform program as may be
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 129 dated January 30, 1987 was provided for by law;
suspended; g) Provide free legal services to agrarian reform beneficiaries and
WHEREAS, Presidential Proclamation No. 131 and Executive Order resolve agrarian conflicts and land tenure problems;
No. 229, both dated July 22, 1987 instituted a Comprehensive h) Develop and implement alternative land tenure systems such as
Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and provided the mechanisms for cooperative farming and agro-industrial estates, among others;
its implementation; i) Undertake land use management and land development studies
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 229 vests on the Department of and projects in agrarian reform areas;
Agrarian Reform quasi-judicial powers to determine and adjudicate k) Approve or disapprove the conversion, restructuring or
agrarian reform matters; readjustment of agricultural lands into non-agricultural uses;
WHEREAS, there is a need to strengthen and expand the functions l) Monitor and evaluate the progress of agrarian reform
of the Department of Agrarian Reform to be more effective in implementation;
implementing the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program; m) Assist the Office of the Solicitor General in providing evidence for
WHEREAS, under Article XVIII, Section 6, of the 1987 Constitution, the reversion proceedings to be filed with respect to lands of the
the President shall continue to exercise legislative powers until the public domain, occupied by private individuals and their tenants or
First Congress convenes; farmworkers which are subject to land reform, and real rights
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, PRESIDENT OF connected therewith which have been acquired in violation of the
THE PHILIPPINES, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution or the public land laws or through corrupt practices;
Constitution, do hereby order: n) Submit progress reports to the Office of the President, to
Sec. 1. Title. This Executive Order shall otherwise be known as the Congress, and to the people at the end of each year and at all times
Reorganization Act of the Department of Agrarian Reform. make available to the general public information on the current status
Sec. 2. Reorganization. The Department of Agrarian Reform is of its programs.
hereby reorganized structurally and functionally, hereinafter referred Sec. 5. Powers and Functions. Pursuant to the mandate the
to as the Department, in accordance with the provisions of this Department, and in order to ensure the successful implementation of
Executive Order. the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, the department is
Sec. 3. Declaration of Policy. It is the declared policy of the State of hereby authorized to:
completely abolish all remnants of feudalism and all other types of a) Advise the President and the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council
unjust tenurial arrangements, implement the comprehensive agrarian on the promulgation of executive/administrative orders, other
reform program, increase the productivity of the direct producers, and regulative issuances and legislative proposals designed to
strengthen the agricultural base for increased industrialization. strengthen agrarian reform and protect the interests of the
Pursuant to this policy, the State shall: benefeciaries thereof;
a) Establish owner-cultivated economic, family-size farms and b) Implement all agrarian laws, and for this purpose, punish for
collectively-owned/cooperatively-cultivated farms as the foundation of contempt and issue subpoena, subpoena duces tecum, writs of
Philippine agriculture; execution of its decisions, and other legal processes to ensure
b) Prohibit absentee land ownership; successful and expeditious program implementation; the decisions of
c) Rechannel and divert landlord capital in agriculture to industrial the Department may in proper cases, be appealed to the Regional
development; Trial Courts but shall be immediately executory notwithstanding such
d) Assist in the preservation and conservation of prime lands for appeal;
agricultural purposes; c) Establish and promulgate operational policies, rules and
e) Encourage the establishment and protect the autonomy and regulations and priorities for agrarian reform implementation;
independence of institutions of farmers and farmworkers that will d) Coordinate program implementation with the Land Bank of the
safeguard their interests and ensure their dignified existence, free Philippines and other relevant civilian and military government
from pernicious restraints and practices; agencies mandated to support the agrarian reform program;
f) Create just and viable socio-economic structures in agriculture e) Acquire, administer, distribute, and develop agricultural lands for
conducive to greater productivity and higher incomes through the agrarian reform purposes;
cooperative system of production, processing, marketing, distribution, f) Undertake surveys of lands covered by agrarian reform;
and credit services; g) Issue emancipation patents to farmers and farmworkers covered
g) Accelerate the disposition of public alienable, disposable, and by agrarian reform for both private and public lands and when
cultivable land to actual cultivators and other qualified beneficiaries necessary make administrative corrections of the same;
and develop agrarian communities for full utilization of land for h) Provide free legal services to agrarian reform beneficiaries and
human growth and development; resolve agrarian conflicts and land-tenure related problems as may
h) Institutionalize partnerships between government and be provided for by law;
organizations of farmers and farmworkers in agrarian reform policy i) Promote the organization and development of cooperatives and
formulation, program implementation, and evaluation; other associations of agrarian reform beneficiaries;
i) Provide specific investment opportunities, alternative employment, j) Conduct continuing education and promotion programs on agrarian
and other incentives for landowners affected by agrarian reform; reform for beneficiaries, land-owners, government personnel, and the
j) Ensure adequate funding support for the agrarian reform program general public;
as well as timely, affordable, and appropriate financing schemes to k) Institutionalize the participation of farmers, farmworkers, other
its beneficiaries; beneficiaries, and agrarian reform advocates in agrarian reform
k) Implement an agricultural land tax scheme that will prevent land policy formulation, program implementation, and evaluation;
hoarding and/or speculation. l) Have exclusive authority to approve or disapprove conversion of
Sec. 4. Mandate. The Department shall be responsible for agricultural lands for residential, commercial, industrial, and other
implementing the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program and, for land uses as may be provided for by law;
such purpose, it is authorized to: m) Call upon any government agency, including the Armed Forces of
a) Acquire, determine the value of, subdivide into family-size farms or the Philippines, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to
organize into collective of cooperative farms and develop private extend full support and cooperation to program implementation;
agricultural lands for distribution to qualified tillers, actual occupants, n) Exercise such other powers and functions as may be provided for
and displaced urban poor; by law or directed by the President, to promote efficiency and
b) Administer and dispose all cultivable portions of the public domain effectiveness in the delivery of public services.
declared as alienable and disposable for agricultural purposes Sec. 6. Structural Organization. The Department shall consist of the
transferred to it by the Department of Environment and Natural Department Proper, the staff offices, the staff bureaus and the
Resources; regional/provincial/municipal agrarian reform offices.
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The Department Proper shall consist of the following: well as for coordinating and/or initiating research and studies for
a) Office of the Secretary; planning and policy formulation purposes.
b) Offices of the Undersecretaries; Sec. 16. Finance, Management and Administrative Office. There is
c) Offices of the Assistant Secretaries; hereby created a Finance, Management and Administrative Office
d) Public Affairs Staff; within the Department Proper which shall be responsible for the
e) Special Concerns Staff; proper and timely allocation of funds to support approved programs,
f) Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board. projects and activities; the appropriate management control and
The staff sectoral bureaus, on the other hand, shall be composed of: accounting of funds; the management of the Department's physical
a) Bureau of Land Acquisition and Distribution; assets; and the provision of services to ensure effective and efficient
b) Bureau of Land Development; personnel management and manpower career development, and for
c) Bureau of Agrarian Legal Assistance; the establishment of management systems and procedures.
d) Bureau of Agrarian Reform Information and Education; Sec. 17. Field Operations Office. There are hereby created Field
e) Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development. Operations Offices for Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao within the
The field offices shall consist of the Department regional offices, the Department Proper which shall monitor and assess the
provincial offices and the municipal agrarian reform office. implementation of the Department's policies, plans and programs at
Sec. 7. Secretary of Agrarian Reform. The authority and the regional, provincial and municipal levels.
responsibility for the exercise of the mandate of the Department and Sec. 18. Legal Affairs Office. There is hereby created a Legal Affairs
the discharge of its powers and functions shall be vested in the Office within the Department Proper which shall be responsible for
Secretary of Agrarian Reform, hereinafter referred to as Secretary, the review of contracts and other legal matters, the rendition of legal
who shall have supervision and control over the Department and assistance to Department personnel and those who will be affected
shall be appointed by the President. by the agrarian reform program.
Sec. 8. Office of the Secretary. The Office of the Secretary shall Sec. 19. Bureau of Land Acquisition and Distribution. There is hereby
consist of the Secretary, his immediate staff, the Public Affairs Staff created the Bureau of Land Acquisition and Distribution which shall
and the Special Concerns Staff. absorb the relevant functions of the Bureaus of Land Acquisition,
Sec. 9. Undersecretary. The Secretary shall be assisted by four (4) Distribution and Development, and of Land Tenure Improvement.
Undersecretaries who shall be appointed by the President upon the The Bureau of Land Acquisition and Distribution, to be headed by a
recommendation of the Secretary. The Secretary is hereby Director and assisted by an Assistant Director, shall be responsible
authorized to delineate, assign and/or reassign the respective for the development of policies, plans, programs, standard operating
functional areas of responsibility of the Undersecretaries, provided, procedures, and for providing technical assistance, relative to the
That such responsibility shall be with respect to the mandate and acquisition and distribution of private agricultural lands covered by
objectives of the Department; and provided, Further, that no the agrarian reform program, including land tiller-landowner
Undersecretary shall be assigned primarily administrative identification, land valuation, and landowners compensation, transfer
responsibilities. of ownership to actual tillers, leasehold arrangements, stewardship,
Sec. 10. Assistant Secretary. The Secretary and the and land transfer actions.
Undersecretaries shall also be assisted by seven (7) Assistant Sec. 20. Bureau of Land Development. There is hereby created the
Secretaries, who shall be appointed by the President upon the Bureau of Land Development which shall absorb the relevant
recommendation of the Secretary. The Secretary is hereby functions of the Bureau of Land Acquisition, Distribution and
authorized to delineate, assign and/or reassign the respective Development. The Bureau of Land Development, to be headed by a
functional areas of responsibility of the Assistant Secretaries, Director and assisted by an Assistant Director, shall responsible for
provided, That such responsibility shall be with respect to the the development of policies, plans and programs, and for providing
mandate and objectives of the Department. technical assistance, relative to land surveys, land use, capability
Sec. 11. Public Affairs Staff. There is hereby created a Public Affairs and classification, engineering services, and land consolidation.
Staff, under the office of the Secretary, to be headed by a Director Sec. 21. Bureau of Agrarian Legal Assistance. The Bureau of
and assisted by an Assistant Director, which shall serve as the public Agrarian Legal Assistance shall be strengthened and shall be
information arm of the Department. It shall be responsible for responsible for developing guidelines, plans and programs for legal
disseminating information and agrarian reform policies, plans, assistance including developing, maintaining and coordinating para-
programs and projects; and respond to public queries related to the legal services for those who will be affected by the Comprehensive
implementation of the agrarian reform program. Agrarian Reform Program. It shall be headed by a Director and
Sec. 12. Special Concerns Staff. There is hereby created a Special assisted by an Assistant Director.
Concerns Staff under the Office of the Secretary, to be headed by a Sec. 22. Bureau of Agrarian Reform Information and Education.
Director and assisted by an Assistant Director, which shall be There is hereby created the Bureau of Agrarian Reform Information
responsible for handling priority areas/subjects identified by the and Education which shall absorb the functions of the Agrarian
Secretary that necessitate special and immediate attention. Reform Education Service which is abolished by this Executive
Sec. 13. Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board. There is hereby Order. The Bureau of Agrarian Reform Information and Education, to
created an Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board under the Office of be headed by a Director and assisted by an Assistant Director, shall
the Secretary. The Board shall be composed of the Secretary as be responsible for developing and conducting continuing training and
Chairman, two (2) Undersecretaries as may be designated by the education programs for the acquisition of knowledge, value
Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs, and three (3) formation, and development of skills and favorable attitudes among
others to be appointed by the President upon the recommendation of benefeciaries and personnel of the Department and other agencies,
the Secretary as members. A Secretariat shall be constituted to and the increase of awareness, participation and acceptance of
support the Board. The Board shall assume the powers and functions agrarian reform by the public through the dissemination of
with respect to the adjudication of agrarian reform cases under information and communication materials.
Executive Order No. 229 and this Executive Order. These powers Sec. 23. Bureau of Agrarian Reform Benefeciaries Development.
and functions may be delegated to the regional offices of the There is hereby created the Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries
Department in accordance with rules and regulations to be Development which shall absorb the relevant functions of the Bureau
promulgated by the Board. of Resettlement. The Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries
Sec. 14. Planning and Project Management Office. There is hereby Development, to be headed by a Director and assisted by an
created a Planning and Project Management Office within the Assistant Director, shall be responsible for the development of
Department Proper which shall be responsible for coordinating and policies, plans and programs, and for providing technical assistance,
initiating the development, integration and prioritization of plans, relative to the development of settlement areas into viable agrarian
programs and projects of the Department; monitoring and evaluating communities. It shall also be responsible for promoting the
agrarian reform program implementation; establishing linkages with organization of agrarian reform beneficiaries, liaison with farmer and
foreign funding institutions; and coordinating the activities of the farm workers organizations to ensure the raising or farm incomes,
different Offices, Bureaus and Attached Agencies of the Department. the promotion of all forms of farm cooperation, the achievement of a
Sec. 15. Policy and Strategic Research Office. There is hereby dignified existence and the creation of a viable economic structure
created a Policy and Strategic Research Office within the conducive to greater productivity and higher farm income.
Department Proper which shall be responsible for establishing and Sec. 24. Regional Offices The Department shall have twelve (12)
implementing a computerized management information system as Regional Offices. Each Regional Office shall be headed by a
Regional Director who shall be assisted by an Assistant Regional
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Director for operations and an Assistant Regional Director for g) Perform such other functions as may be necessary in the service
Administration. of the Department's clientele;
The Regional Offices shall be responsible for the implementation of Sec. 26. Municipal Agrarian Reform Offices. The Department shall
laws, policies, plans, programs, projects, rules and regulations of the have as many Municipal Agrarian Reform Offices as may be
Department in its administrative region. For such purpose, it shall necessary in promoting efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of
have the following functions: its services, which shall be headed by a Municipal Agrarian Reform
a) Prepare and submit plans and programs for the region on: Officer.
1) Land acquisition and distribution; The Municipal Agrarian Reform Office shall be responsible for
2) Information and education; directly implementing agrarian reform programs and delivering
3) Land use management and land development; expected results at the municipal level. For such purpose, it shall
4) Agrarian reform beneficiaries development; have the following functions:
b) Provide technical assistance to Provincial Offices and Municipal a) Implement policies and programs on land acquisition and
Agrarian Reform Offices in the implementation of approved plans and distribution and transfer of landowners to actual tillers, including
programs; identification of farms, landowners, and beneficiaries, leasehold
c) Conduct operations research and evaluation of agrarian reform arrangements, land valuation, landowner's compensation and
implementation within the region; transfer actions as determined in accordance with law;
d) Coordinate with other government and private agencies and b) Undertake continuing information and education programs on
farmer and farm workers organizations at the regional level, to carry agrarian reform among the beneficiaries thereof;
out the programs/projects for the general welfare of agrarian reform c) Encourage and promote the organization and development of
beneficiaries; agrarian reform beneficiaries and assist in the registration of
e) Maintain an information system in coordination with the organized cooperatives;
established monitoring systems; d) Institutionalize beneficiaries' participation in agrarian reform policy
f) Review and evaluate reports and other documents submitted by formulation and program implementation;
the Provincial Offices and Municipal Agrarian Reform Offices and e) Organize/establish compact farms, land consolidation, integrated
agrarian reform clientele; farm system, sloping agricultural land technology and other
g) Submit periodic feedback as may be necessary in the service of cooperative-cultivatorship schemes;
the Department's clientele. f) Provide assistance in agrarian reform research;
Sec. 25. Provincial Offices. The Agrarian Reform District Offices are g) Provide assistance to various legal services, including legal
hereby abolished and in their stead the Department shall create information and legal counselling, documentation and preliminary
Provincial Agrarian Reform Offices as may be necessary in processing of applications for patents and applications to purchase
promoting efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of its services. lots, preliminary investigation of conflicting claims of lot boundaries
Each Provincial Agrarian Reform Office shall be headed by a and appraisal of properties, and mediation of different problems
Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer. arising from implementation of the agrarian reform program;
The Provincial Agrarian Reform Offices shall be responsible for execution and registration of lease contracts, initial investigation of
directing and coordinating the operations and activities of the administrative cases, and other legal services;
Municipal Agrarian Reform Offices operating within the province and h) Provide assistance on project identification, formulation, and
has the following functions: development that would uplift the socio-economic status of the
a) Set priorities, specific targets, schedules, and deadlines for the beneficiaries including projects that would channel landlord capital to
execution of approved plans, programs, and projects on: industrial development;
1) Land acquisition, distribution, transfer of land ownership to actual i) Cooperative with other government and private agencies and
tillers, including land-tiller-landowner identification, tenurial security, farmer and farm worker organizations within the area of coverage for
leasehold arrangements, land surveys, land valuation and effective program/project implementation;
landowner's compensation as may be provided for by law; j) Submit periodic reports on program/projects accomplishments
2) Continuing information and education programs on agrarian including identified problems and recommended solutions thereto;
reform; k) Implement projects supportive of national priority programs which
3) Encouraging the organizational development of agrarian reform the Department is committed to assist;
beneficiaries cooperatives and other associations and l) Perform such other functions as may be assigned from time to
institutionalizing farmer-government partnership in agrarian reform time, to promote efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of public
policy formulation, program implementation, and evaluation; services.
4) Landowners' compensation and rechanneling landowner capital to Sec. 27. Attached Agency
industrial development; a) The Department shall, subject to the approval of the Presidential
5) Development and implementation of alternative land tenure Agrarian Reform Council, create the Foundation for the Agrarian
systems such as cooperative farming, cooperative cultivatorship Reform Movement of the Philippines (FARM-Philippines) to
schemes, and agro-industrial estates, among others; administer, operate, and manage programs and projects developed
6) Land use management; by the Department and initiate alternative livelihood projects for
7) Compact farming, integrated farming system, sloping agricultural displaced small landowners. It shall be attached to the office of the
land technology, and other land conservation measures in agrarian Secretary and shall be governed by a Board of Trustees. The
reform areas, in coordination with farmer and farm workers Foundation will be authorized to raise funds and to contract foreign
organizations; and domestic loans for its projects.
8) Provision of legal services to those affected by agrarian reform Sec. 28. Transitory Provisions. In accomplishing the acts of
and resolution of agrarian conflicts and land tenure problems; reorganization herein prescribed, the following transitory provisions
b) Provide administrative services to the Municipal Agrarian Reform shall be complied with, unless otherwise provided elsewhere in this
Offices within the province; Executive Order;
c) Provide legal services to agrarian reform beneficiaries in cases a) The transfer of a government unit shall include the functions,
arising from or connected with agrarian reform disputes, handling of appropriations, funds, records, equipment, facilities, chosen in action,
expropriation proceedings, registering cooperatives and reviewing rights, other assets, and liabilities, if any, of the transferred unit as
and acting on all matters initially investigated and elevated by well as the personnel thereof, as may be necessary, who shall, in a
Municipal Agrarian Reform Office; hold-over capacity, continue to perform their respective duties and
d) Provide technical assistance to Municipal Agrarian Reform Offices responsibilities and receive the corresponding salaries and benefits.
in the implementation of approved plans and programs; Those personnel from the transferred unit whose positions are not
e) Coordinate with governmental, private agencies, and farmer and included in the Department's new position structure and staffing
farm worker organizations at the provincial level, to carry out pattern approved and prescribed by the Secretary or who are not
programs; reappointed shall be deemed separated from the service and shall be
f) Conduct periodic performance audit survey in collaboration with the entitled to the benefits provided in the second paragraph of Section
regional office and monitor agrarian reform program 29 hereof.
accomplishments, including operational problems and constraints, b) The transfer of functions which results in the abolition of the
and recommend appropriate remedial measures for effective government unit that exercised them shall include the appropriations,
program implementation; funds, records, equipment, facilities, chosen in action, rights, other
assets and personnel as may be necessary to the proper discharge
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of the transferred functions. The abolished unit's remaining Secretary under Section 29 hereof or who have not been
appropriations and funds, if any, shall revert to the General Fund and reappointed, shall be deemed separated from the service and shall
its remaining assets, if any, shall be allocated to such appropriate be entitled to the benefits provided in the second paragraph of the
units as the Secretary shall determine or shall otherwise be disposed same Section 29 hereof.
in accordance with the Government Auditing Code and other Sec. 29. New, Structure and Pattern. Upon approval of this Executive
pertinent laws, rules and regulations. Its liabilities, if any, shall Order, the officers and employees of the Department shall, in a hold-
likewise be treated in accordance with the Government Auditing over capacity, continue to perform their respective duties and
Code and other pertinent laws, rules and regulations. Its personnel responsibilities and receive the corresponding salaries and benefits
shall, in a hold-over capacity, continue to perform their duties and unless in the meantime they are separated from government service.
responsibilities and receive their corresponding salaries and benefits. The new position structure and staffing pattern of the Department
Its personnel whose positions are not included in the Department's shall be approved and prescribed by the Secretary within sixty (60)
structure and staffing pattern approved and prescribed by the days from the effectivity of this Executive Order and the authorized
Secretary under Section 29 hereof or who are not reappointed, shall positions created thereunder shall be filled with regular appointments
be deemed separated from the service and shall be entitled to the by him or by the President as the case may be. Those incumbents
benefits provided in the second paragraph of the same Section 29. whose positions are not included therein or who are not reappointed
c) Any transfer of functions which does not result in the abolition of shall be deemed separated from the service. Those separated from
the government unit that has exercised them shall include the the service shall receive the retirement benefits to which they be
appropriations, funds, records, equipment, facilities, chosen in action, entitled under existing laws, rules and regulations. Otherwise, they
rights, and assets and personnel as may be necessary to the proper shall be paid the equivalent of one (1) month basic salary for every
discharge of the transferred functions. The liabilities, if any, that may year of service in the government, or a fraction thereof, computed on
have been incurred in connection with the discharge of the the basis of the highest salary received, but in no case shall such
transferred functions, shall be treated in accordance with the payment exceed the equivalent of twelve (12) months
Government Auditing Code and other pertinent laws, rules and salary. lawphi1.net
regulations. Such personnel shall, in a hold-over capacity, continue Sec. 30. Periodic Performance Evaluation. The Department of
to perform their duties and responsibilities and receive their Agrarian Reform is hereby required to formulate and enforce a
corresponding salaries and benefits unless in the meantime they are system of measuring and evaluating periodically and objectively the
separated from the service. Any personnel, whose positions are not performance of the Department and submit the same annually to the
included in the Department's new position structure and staffing President.
patter approved and prescribed by the Secretary under Section 29 Sec. 31. Notice or Consent Requirement. If any reorganizational
hereof or who are not reappointed, shall be deemed separated from change herein authorized is of such substance or materiality as to
the service and shall be entitled to the benefits provided in the prejudice third persons with rights recognized by law or contract such
second paragraph of the same Section 29. that notice to or consent of creditors is required to be made or
d) In case of the abolition of a government unit which does not result obtained pursuant to any agreement entered into with any of such
in the transfer of its functions to another unit, the appropriations and creditors, such notice or consent requirement shall be complied with
funds of the abolished entity shall revert to the General Fund, while prior to the implementation of such reorganizational change.
the records, equipment, facilities, chosen in action, rights, and other Sec. 32. Prohibition Against Structural Changes. No change in the
assets thereof shall be allocated to such appropriate entities as the reorganization herein prescribed shall be valid except upon prior
Secretary shall determine or shall otherwise be disposed in approval of the President for the purpose of promoting efficiency and
accordance with the Government Auditing Code and other pertinent effectiveness in the delivery of public services.
laws, rules and regulations, The liabilities of the abolished units shall Sec. 33. Funding. Funds needed to carry out the provisions of this
be treated in accordance with the Government Auditing Code and Executive Order shall be taken from funds available in the
other pertinent laws, rules and regulations, while the personnel Department.
thereof, whose position, is not included in the Department's new Sec. 34. Implementing Authority of the Secretary. The Secretary shall
position structure and staffing pattern approved and prescribed by issue orders, rules and regulations and other issuances as may be
the Secretary under Section 29 hereof or who has not reappointed, necessary to ensure the effective implementation of the provisions of
shall be deemed separated from the service and shall be entitled to this Executive Order.
the benefits provided in the second paragraph of the same Section Sec. 35. Separability. Any portion or provision of this Executive Order
29. that may be declared unconstitutional shall not have the effect of
e) In case of merger or consolidation of government units, the new or nullifying other portions or provisions hereof as long as such
surviving unit shall exercise the functions (subject to the remaining portions or provisions can still subsist and be given effect
reorganization herein prescribed and the laws, rules and regulations in their entirety. Lawphi
pertinent to the exercise of such functions) and shall acquire the
appropriations, funds, records, equipment, facilities, chosen in action,
rights, other assets, liabilities, if any, and personnel, as may be
necessary, of the units that compose the merged unit shall in a hold-
over capacity, continue to perform their respective duties and
responsibilities and receive their corresponding salaries and benefits
unless in the meantime they are separated from the service. Any
such personnel, whose positions are not included in the
Department's new position structure and staffing pattern approved
and prescribed by the Secretary under Section 29 hereof or who are
not reappointed, shall be deemed separated from the service and
shall be entitled to the benefits provided in the second paragraph of
the same Section 29.
f) In case of termination of a function which does not result in the
abolition of the government unit which performed such function, the
appropriations and funds intended to finance the discharge of such
function shall revert to the General Fund while the records,
equipment, facilities, chosen in action, rights and other assets used
in connection with the discharge of such function shall be allocated to
the appropriate units as the Department shall determine or shall
otherwise be disposed in accordance with the Government Auditing
Code and other pertinent laws, rules and regulations, The liabilities, if
any, that may have been incurred in connection with the discharge of
such function shall likewise be treated in accordance with the
Government Auditing Code and other pertinent laws, rules and
regulations. The personnel who have performed such function,
whose positions are not included in the Department's new position
structure and staffing pattern approved and prescribed by the
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