Administrative Order No. 108




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 108, January 23, 1989 ] REQUIRING GOVERNMENT BODIES AND OFFICIALS AUTHORIZED TO PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS, CIRCULARS, AND OTHER OFFICIAL ISSUANCES TO MAINTAIN COPIES OF ALL SUCH ISSUANCES EMANATING FROM THEM, CONTINUOUSLY UPDATE THE SAME, AND HENCEFORTH SPECIFY EXISTING ISSUANCES OR PARTS THEREOF WHICH ARE BEING REPEALED, AMENDED OR MODIFIED I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order that: 1. For purposes of enhancing the public’s access to rules and regulations and all other official issuances, all government offices and officials authorized to make statements of general applicability which implement or interpret a law, fix and describe the procedures in, or practice requirements of, the office, including the regulations, shall keep copies of all such issuances which shall be made available to the public and shall formulate and implement a system for continuously updating the same. 2. To eliminate unnecessary hardships imposed on the public and on public servants, as well as to insure the systematic updating, collation and public dissemination of rules and regulations, circulars, memoranda, and other official issuances, all offices and officials referred to in paragraph one hereof are hereby directed to specify, in the promulgation they are authorized to issue, any existing issuance, or parts thereof which are being repealed, amended, or modified.£A⩊phi£ 3. For purposes of having a centralized system of information as regards these issuances as well as continually updating the same, and proposing suggested improvements whenever necessary, all such government bodies and officials are directed to deposit three copies of all such rules and regulations, circulars and other official issuances with the University of the Philippines Law Center. Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine.1âшphi1 (Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) CATALINO MACARAIG, JR. Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation