EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 85
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 85 - ABOLISHING
THE OFFICE OF MEDIA AFFAIRS AND THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES
WHEREAS,
the abolition of the Office of Media Affairs and the Ministry of Human
Settlements which served as private and partisan machineries during the
previous administration fulfills the firm commitment of the new
administration to use public funds for vital services to the
people;
WHEREAS, it is the avowed policy of the new administration to prevent
dissipation of public resources by streamlining government operations;
WHEREAS, the Office of Media Affairs has failed in its role as the
information and media policy arm of the government;
WHEREAS, the Ministry of Human Settlements by duplicating the functions
of other line ministries had eroded the effective, efficient and
economical delivery of public service.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by the sovereign will of Filipino
People and the Freedom Constitution, do hereby order:
Section 1. The Office of Media Affairs hereinafter
referred to as “OMA” and the Ministry of Human Settlements, hereinafter
referred to as “MHS”, are hereby abolished.
Sec. 2. The communication facilities, records,
equipment, choses in action, rights and other assets of the OMA are
hereby transferred to the appropriate unit and/or agency under the
Office of the President.
Sec. 3. The records, equipment, facilities, choses
in action, rights, and other assets of the MHS shall be allocated to
such appropriate existing ministries, agencies and units and/or offices
to be created as the Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary for Human
Settlements shall recommend to the President. The final disposition and
final organizational alignment or attachment of the juridical entities,
agencies, corporations and councils attached to, or under the
administration supervision of, the MHS including their respective
existing projects, appropriations and other assets shall be subject to
subsequent enactments by the President.
Sec. 4. Until further orders of the President, of
the Executive Secretary by authority or order of the President,
incumbent personnel of the OMA and MHS shall continue a hold order
capacity and receive the corresponding salaries and benefits for a
transition period of not more than sixty (60) days from the effectivity
of this Executive Order, unless in the meantime they are separated from
the service pursuant to Executive Order No. 17 (1986) or Article III of
the Freedom Constitution. Those separated from the service shall
receive the benefits to which they may be entitled under existing laws,
rules and regulations.
Sec. 5. Funds needed to carry out the provisions
of this Executive Order shall be taken from any appropriate funding
source.
Sec. 6. The Executive Secretary and the Deputy
Executive Secretary for Human Settlements are hereby respectively
authorized to oversee the orderly abolition of the OMA and the MHS to
prevent, among others, impairment of valid contracts of the OMA and MHS
and to issue such rules, regulations and other issuance as may be
necessary to ensure the effective implementation of the provisions of
this Executive Order.
Sec. 7. Any portion or provision of this Executive
Order that may be declared invalid or unconstitutional shall not have
the effect of nullifying other portions or provisions hereof, as long
as such remaining portions or provisions can still subsist and be given
effect in their entirety.
Sec. 8. All laws, ordinances, rules, regulations,
other issuances or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this
Executive Order, are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.
Sec. 9. This Executive Order shall take effect on
January 1, 1987.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 12th day of December in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-six.
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