Executive Order No. 414




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 414, February 16, 1951 ] FURTHER AMENDING SECTION 5-a OF CHAPTER III OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 178, DATED DECEMBER 17, 1938, ENTITLED “PRESCRIBING THE PROCEDURE, INCLUDING THE MODES OF PROOF, IN CASES BEFORE COURTS-MARTIAL, COURTS OF INQUIRY, MILITARY COMMISSIONS AND OTHER MILITARY TRIBUNALS OF THE ARMY OF THE PHILIPPINES,” AS AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 47, DATED JUNE 6, 1945, AND EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 264, DATED SEPTEMBER 8, 1949. Paragraph 2 of section 5-a of Chapter III of Executive Order No. 178, dated December 17, 1938, as amended by Executive Order No. 47, dated June 8, 1945, and Executive Order No. 264, dated September 8, 1949, is hereby further amended to read as follows: “Under the authority of AW 8, as amended by Republic Acts Nos. 242 and 516, the Commanding Officer of a major command or task force, the Commanding Officer of a Division, the Commanding Officer of a Military Area, the Superintendent of the Philippine Military Academy (except for the trial of an officer), and the Commanding Officer of a battalion or a larger unit, or corresponding units of the Air Force and the Navy assigned for duty in a territory beyond the jurisdiction of the Philippines, are hereby empowered to appoint general courts-martial.” Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the independence of the Philippines, the fifth.1âшphi1 (SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation