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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Memorandum Order No. 38, September 15, 1986 ]

FURTHER AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED AND ONE, ENTITLED, “AN ACT CREATING THE NATIONAL IRRIGATION ADMINISTRATION”.

Sub-paragraph (b) of Section 5 and Section 7, Article IV, Republic Act No. 3601, as amended, are hereby further amended to read as follows:

“Section 5. Powers and Duties of the Board of Directors. – The Board of Directors shall have the following powers and duties:

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(b) To recommend to the President of the Philippines the appointment of a Deputy Administrator and such number of Assistant Administrators as the exigencies of the service may require from a list of names submitted by the Administrator; to fix the compensation of the Irrigation Administrator and his Deputy and Assistant/s, and by at least two-thirds vote of all the members, to recommend the suspension and/or removal of the said officials for cause.

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“Section 7. Managing Head. – The management of the National Irrigation Administration, shall be vested in an Irrigation Administrator who shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines; Provided, that the Deputy Administrator shall act for and in place of the Administrator in the latter’s absence.”

This Memorandum Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 15th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Six.1aшphi1

(SGD.) CORAZON C. AQUINO
President of the Philippines

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