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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 124 January 30, 1987

REORGANIZING THE MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS, REDEFINING ITS POWERS AND FUNCTIONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

RECALLING, that the reorganization of the government is expressly mandated in Article II, Section 1 (a), and Article III of the Freedom Constitution;

HAVING IN MIND that, pursuant to the Executive Order No. 5 (1986), there is a need to effect the necessary and proper changes in the organizational and functional structures of the national and local governments, agencies, and instrumentalities, including government-owned and controlled corporations and their subsidiaries, in order to promote economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of public services;

NOTING that the Ministry of Public Works and Highways has, in its operations, been impeded by organizational and functional deficiencies;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON, C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the sovereign will of the Filipino People and the Freedom Constitution, do hereby order:

SECTION 1 to Sec. 39

Sec. 40. Effectivity. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately upon its approval.

APPROVED in the City of Manila, Philippines, this 30th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.

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