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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 51 - DIRECTING
LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS TO REVISE THEIR 1993 ANNUAL BUDGETS TO ADDRESS
THE FUNDING REQUIREMENTS OF DEVOLVED NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY
FUNCTIONS, ENJOINING THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES CONCERNED TO
ADVANCE SUCH FUNDING REQUIREMENT FOR THEIR DEVOLVED FUNCTIONS AGAINST
REGULAR 1993 ALLOTMENTS PENDING ENACTMENT OF THE REVISED 1993 ANNUAL
BUDGETS AND INSTRUCTING THE SECRETARY OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT TO
PROMULGATE AND ISSUE THE RULES, REGULATIONS AND GUIDELINES TO BE
OBSERVED FOR THE PURPOSE
WHEREAS, Sec. 284 of the Local
Government Code of 1991, as well as the General Appropriations Act
(GAA) for FY 1993, mandate that the internal revenue allotment (IRA)
share of local government units (LGUs) for 1993 shall be P36.72
billion;
WHEREAS, Section 17(g) of the Code requires LGUs to allocate available
resources or funds for the provision of the devolved national
government functions before applying the same to any other purpose;
WHEREAS, notwithstanding such requirement, the majority of LGUs appear
to have not included or have only partially included the cost of the
devolved national government functions in their respective 1993 annual
budgets;
WHEREAS, unless appropriated for by the Sanggunian concerned, no money
may be paid out of the local treasury for the cost of devolved national
government functions not included in the 1993 local annual budgets;
WHEREAS, the budgetary requirements for the devolved national
government functions were not provided for in the 1993 appropriations
passed upon by Congress for the national government agencies concerned
under the GAA for FY 1993;
WHEREAS, Congress under the same GAA FY 1993 authorized the Department
of Budget and Management to withhold the release from the IRA shares of
LGUs such sums as may correspond with the cost of national government
functions the devolution of which shall have been deferred or excluded
through subsequent legislation;
WHEREAS, urgent ad hoc measures have to be undertaken to obviate
disruption in the provision of basic and essential services and
facilities to the people pending inclusion of the cost of devolved
national government functions in the 1993 annual budgets of each LGUs:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by law, upon the recommendation of
the Chairman of the Oversight Committee constituted under Sec. 533
of the Code, do hereby order and direct:
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DONE in the City of Manila,
this 22nd day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety-three.
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