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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 160 -
PROVIDING GUIDELINES FOR GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS IN THE CORDILLERA
ADMINISTRATIVE REGION PENDING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE REGIONAL
AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT FOR THE CORDILLERA AUTONOMOUS REGION
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 220, Series of
1987, created a Cordillera Administrative Region consisting of the
Provinces of Abra, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga-Apayao and Mt. Province and
the chartered City of Baguio;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 220, Series of 1987, the
Cordillera Executive Board and the Cordillera Regional Assembly were
likewise established for the Cordillera Administrative Region which,
together with the aforesaid bodies, shall "exist until such time as the
autonomous regional government shall have been established and
organized under an organic act passed by Congress in accordance with
Sec. 18, Article X of the Constitution" (Sec. 17);
WHEREAS, Administrative Order No. 36, Series of 1987, authorized the
various departments and other agencies of the National Government to
maintain regional offices in the Cordillera Administrative Region;
WHEREAS, the Commission on Elections, in its Resolution No. 2259
declared that the Organic Act for the Cordillera Autonomous Region has
been approved and/or ratified in the sole Province of Ifugao in a
plebiscite held on January 30, 1990 in the provinces and the city
comprising the Cordillera Administrative Region;
WHEREAS, Article XXI, Sec. 3 of Republic Act. No. 6766 provides that:
"The Cordillera Executive Board, the Cordillera Regional Assembly, as
well as all offices and agencies created under Executive Order No. 220
shall cease to exist immediately upon the ratification of this Organic
Act.
All funds, properties and assets of the Cordillera Executive Board and
the Cordillera Regional Assembly shall automatically be transferred to
the Cordillera Autonomous Government".
WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 6861, dated March 8, 1990, postponed the
holding of the first regular elections for Governor, Deputy Governor
and Members of the Regional Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the
Cordillera to the first Monday of March 1991;
WHEREAS, while the Cordillera Executive Board, the Cordillera Regional
Assembly as well as all offices and agencies created under Executive
Order No. 220, S. of 1987, are deemed abolished immediately upon the
ratification of the Organic Act, the Cordillera Administrative Region
remains subsisting until the organization of the Cordillera Autonomous
Regional Government and the full implementation of Sec. 13 (A),
Article XXI of Republic Act No. 6766;
WHEREAS, there is an imperative need to provide guidelines for the
governmental operations in the Cordillera Administrative Region pending
the organization of the Regional Autonomous Government for the
Cordillera Autonomous Region;
WHEREAS, Article X, Sec. 14 of the Constitution provides that:
"The President shall provide for regional development councils or other
similar bodies composed of local government officials, regional heads
of departments and other government offices, and representatives from
non-governmental organizations within the regions for purposes of
administrative decentralization to strengthen the autonomy of the units
therein and to accelerate the economic and social growth and
development of the units in the region";
NOW, THEREFORE I CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:
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DONE in the City of Manila,
this 30th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety.
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