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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 447 |
The Commissioner of Budget
The Director-General, National Economic and
Development Authority
The Chairman, Commission on Audit
All Chairman, Regional Development Councils
All Project Managers of Regional Development
Agencies and
Other Officials Concerned
In order to increase the effectiveness of national government programs and the national budget as instruments of regional development, the following instructions are hereby issued for strict compliance by those concerned:
1.
All department and agency heads shall (a) ask
their regional offices to evolve their respective regional budgets in
conformity with the priorities established by Regional Development
Councils, (b) involve said regional offices in the preparation of the
department or agency budget, and (c) prepare itemizations of proposed
budgetary expenditures by region.
2. The
Commissioner of the Budget shall (a) identify
by region the expenditure programs of national government agencies in
the national government budget, and (b) release funds to national
government agencies in accordance with the approved regional
distribution of expenditures, specifying the region of destination.
Information on such releases shall be furnished to the Regional
Directors and to the Chairman of the Regional Development Councils
concerned.
3. All
departments and agencies shall release in full
the approved budget allocation of their various regional offices as
authorized in the budgetary Advice of Allotment, except where
deductions and/or reallocations are specifically authorized by the
Commissioner of the Budget, in case realignment of expenditures is
necessary.
4. In the case
of multi-agency programs, such as
those implemented through regional development agencies, the
Commissioner of the Budget shall (a) reflect the approved multi-agency
expenditure program in the budgets of the various participating
agencies, and (b) release funds to the implementing agency upon request
of the development agency manager.
5. The
Chairman, Commission on Audit, shall see to it
that sub-allotments by departments, and agencies to their regional
offices and to regional development agencies are in conformity with
allocations as may be authorized in the budgetary Advice of Allotments.
6. The Chief
Accountants of all departments and
agencies shall prepare quarterly reports of operations of their
respective agencies, classified by region or regional project, and
shall submit within fifteen days of the end of the quarter, two
certified copies of such reports to the National Accounting Office and
one copy of the Chairman of the Regional Development Council concerned.
The Commissioner of the Budget, with the concurrence of the Director-General, National Economic and Development Authority, is hereby authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to effectively implement these Instructions.
Done in the City of Manila, this 12th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.
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