EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 496 - EXTENDING THE TERM OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON REORGANIZATION CREATED UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 281, SERIES OF 1970

WHEREAS, continuing administrative reform is a vital component of development administration for securing an efficient and effective machinery in the implementation of the national social and economic development plan;  

WHEREAS, the impending change in the political organizational framework would invariably require an assessment of its impact on the entire administrative structure of the government; and

WHEREAS, it is desirable for the Presidential Commission on Reorganization to continue providing staff assistance and consultative advice to the President, Civil Service Commission, Career Executive Service Board, and other agencies of the government on development administration relative to, among others, reorganization matters, decentralization and regionalization, career executive service, and rationalization of government corporation management.  

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby extend the term of the Presidential Commission on Reorganization up to December 31, 1978.

The Presidential Executive Assistant shall issue the necessary directives for the detail or the extension of the detail of such technical personnel as may be needed by the Commission, under the same conditions as prescribed in Executive Order No. 281, as amended.

The Commission is authorized to disburse and defray all expenses for its operations from January 1 to December 31, 1978 from funds in the amount of P800,000 as may be available from the Office of the President.

Done in the City of Manila, this 31st day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.