Administrative Order No. 126




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 126, May 08, 1989 ] AMENDING SECTION 2 OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 36, DATED SEPTEMBER 23, 1987, PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL OFFICES IN THE CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby amend Section 2 of Administrative Order No. 36, dated September 23, 1987, providing for the establishment of regional offices in the Cordillera Administrative Region, to read as follows: “Section 2. Appointment of Regional Offices’ Personnel. The Regional Directors shall be appointed immediately to facilitate the organization of the regional offices. In keeping with the spirit and intent of E.O. 220, preference shall be given to qualified Cordillerans in the appointment of the regional directors and their staff. The following constitutes the definition of Cordilleran: “a. Those whose fathers or mothers are members of indigenous cultural communities of the region. “b. Those citizens and their children whose fathers or mothers are recognized to be indigenous in the region. “c. Those filipinos and their children who trace their ancestry outside the region but shall have completed two years of residency in the region at the time of his/her appointment, and are registered voters and taxpayers, and if of age shall have been registered voters and taxpayers in the region. “d. Those who continue to reside or reside in the Cordillera for at least two years and if of age, register as voters and are taxpayers in the region. “e. Those who, in their minor years, are adopted by Cordillera in accordance with customary law or civil law. “f. Those who get married to Cordillerans.” This Administrative Order shall take effect immediately. Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of May, 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