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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 262
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 262 -
CREATING THE GAB ANTI-ILLEGAL GAMBLING UNIT OF THE GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS
BOARD
I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me under BOOK III, Title
III, Chapter 10, Sec. 31, of the 1987 Administrative Code, do hereby
order:
1.
A GAB Anti-Illegal Gambling Unit is hereby created as an organic unit
of the Games and Amusements Board.
2. The GAB
Anti-Illegal Gambling Unit shall combat and prevent the existence and
proliferation of illegal bookie joints and other illegal forms of
organized gambling in professional sports and amusement games.
3. The GAB
Anti-Illegal Gambling Unit shall be composed of organic and detailed
personnel. The organic personnel shall be appointed by the Chairman of
the Games and Amusements Board according to the staffing pattern
authorized by the Games and Amusements Board and approved by the
Department of Budget and Management. The detailed personnel shall be
drawn on detail from the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of
Investigation and other law-enforcement agencies of the Government.
4. The Task
Force on Anti-Gambling, which was created pursuant to Letters of
Instructions Nos. 717 and 797, dated June 30, 1978 and January 24,
1979, respectively, and whose operation was suspended under Memorandum
Order No. 255, dated September 18, 1989, is hereby abolished. All
funds, records, equipment and other properties thereof are hereby
transferred to the GAB Anti-Illegal Gambling Unit.
5. The
Chairman of the Games and Amusements Board shall submit quarterly
reports on the operations of the GAB Anti-Illegal Gambling Unit to the
Executive Secretary, who may issue, from time to time, oversight orders
to protect public interest.
6. Letters of
Instructions Nos. 717 and 797, dated June 30, 1978 and January 24,
1979, respectively; Administrative Order No. 19, dated April 6, 1987;
Memorandum Orders Nos. 10 and 255, dated April 22, 1986 and September
18, 1989, respectively, and other orders inconsistent or in conflict
with this Administrative Order are hereby revoked accordingly.
7. This
Administrative Order shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 17th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety-two.
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