Memorandum Circular No. 411




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Memorandum Circular No. 411, November 24, 1970 ] GUIDELINES ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6141 WHEREAS, Section 10 of Republic Act No. 6141 (Peace and Order Fund Act of 1970) creates a joint congressional committee composed of the chairman, the next ranking member and the ranking minority member of both Senate and House Committees on Ways and Means “to look into the operation and effects of the Account” and the “administration of the taxes imposed in this Act;” and WHEREAS, in forwarding to Congress H. B. No. 1537 (now R. A. 6141), with my signature, I stated in the accompanying message that: “Section 10 of H.B. No. 1537 is susceptible of the interpretation that the joint committee of Congress created therein would participate in the purely executive function of administering the funds created, which would be patently unconstitutional and therefore could not have been the intent of Congress. “I have therefore signed this bill in the conviction that Congress meant this Section to mean that the organization of the joint committee is a matter that is internal to the Congress of the Philippines for the purpose merely having a convenient means by which Congress can, as it does in its committee hearings, ‘look into the operation and effects of the accounts’ as well as the ‘administration of the taxes imposed,’ and report to Congress in the same manner that regular or special committee created by the Senate of the House in accordance with existing law and practice.” WHEREFORE, it is hereby directed that all departments, offices and agencies of the Government furnish, upon request of the Joint Committee, such information, suggestions, rulings, data, estimates and statistics bearing on the Peace and Order Fund as may be designed by said committee.1âшphi1 (SGD) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President Republic of the Philippines Manila, November 24, 1970 The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation