General Order No. 23




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ GENERAL ORDER NO. 23, January 18, 1973 ] AUTHORIZING THE CHIEF OF STAFF, AFP, TO EXTEND THE PERIOD OF THE CURFEW HOURS PRESCRIBED IN GENERAL ORDER NO. 4, IN CASE OF MILITARY NECESSITY. General Order No. 4, dated September 22, 1972, particularly the dispositive portion thereof, is hereby amended to read: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, pursuant to the aforesaid Proclamation No. 108l, dated September 21, 1972, do hereby order that a curfew be maintained and enforced throughout the Philippines between the hours of twelve midnight and four o'clock in the morning except that the Chief of Staff, AFP, may, for such critical areas as he will determine and specify, extend the duration of the aforementioned curfew period consistent with the requirements of military necessity, and that between these hours and during the effectivity of this order no person in the Philippines shall be allowed to move about outside his or her residence unless he or she is authorized in writing to do so by the military commander-in-charge of his or her area of residence, and that any person who violates this Order shall be arrested and forthwith taken into custody and kept within the premises of the nearest military camp and shall be released not later than twelve o'clock noon following the day of his or her apprehension unless there are valid and compelling reasons or ground for his or her continued detention in which case he or she shall be transferred to and kept in the nearest prison camp.ℒαwρhi৷ Done in the City of Manila, this l8th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three. By the President: (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President Republic of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation