EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 32 - AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 160 TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF A CHAIRMAN FROM AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION ON POPULATION BOARD

WHEREAS, Executive Order No, 160, dated 13 April 1987, reconstituted the Board of the Commission on Population and designated the Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development as Chairman of the Board to strengthen the Commission and to make its Board more responsive to the tasks assigned to it by the 1987 Constitution;  

WHEREAS, there is a need to further strengthen the Board of the Commission on Population in the light of the invigorated drive to pursue the integration of population with national development efforts;

WHEREAS, election of the Commission on Population Board Chairman from among the members of the Board shall allow for a more effective leadership in the Board.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines do hereby order:

Section 1. Sec. 6 of Presidential Decree No. 79, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

“SEC. 6. Board of Commissioners. — All the functions and powers of the Population Commission shall be vested in and exercised by a Board of Commissioners, hereinafter referred to as the Board, composed of eleven (11) members from the government and three (3) members as representatives of the private sector, as follows:

The Secretary of Social Welfare and Development
The Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority
The Secretary of Health  
The Secretary of Local Government
The Secretary of Labor and Employment
The Secretary of Agriculture
The Secretary of Agrarian Reform
The Secretary of Trade and Industry
The Secretary of Public Works and Highways
The Secretary of Education, Culture and Sports
The Director of the University of the Philippines Population Institute
Three Private representatives who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the President of the Philippines.
The Board shall elect the Chairman from its members.

Sec. 2. All laws, order, issuances, rules and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Sec. 3. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 31st day of October in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-two.
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