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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 200 - PROVIDING
FOR THE PUBLICATION OF LAWS EITHER IN THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE OR IN A
NEWSPAPER OF GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE PHILIPPINES AS A REQUIREMENT
FOR THEIR EFFECTIVITY
WHEREAS,
Article 2 of the Civil Code partly provides that “laws shall take
effect after fifteen days following the completion of their publication
in the Official Gazette, unless it is otherwise provided . .;”
WHEREAS, the requirement that for laws to be effective only a
publication thereof in the Official Gazette will suffice has entailed
some problems, a point recognized by the Supreme Court in
Tañada. et al. vs. Tuvera, et al. (G.R. No. 63915, December 29,
1986) when it observed that “[t]here is much to be said of the view
that the publication need not be made in the Official Gazette,
considering its erratic release and limited readership”;
WHEREAS, it was likewise observed that “[u]ndoubtedly, newspapers of
general circulation could better perform the function of communicating
the laws to the people as such periodicals are more easily available,
have a wider readership, and come out regularly”; and
WHEREAS, in view of the foregoing premises Article 2 of the Civil Code
should accordingly be amended so the laws to be effective must be
published either in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general
circulation in the country;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order:
Section 1.
Sec. 2.
Sec. 3.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 18th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-seven.
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