WHEREAS,
the Constitution mandates that the State shall promote social justice
to ensure the dignity, welfare and security of all the people, and that
it shall establish, maintain and ensure adequate social services to
guarantee the enjoyment by the people of a decent standard of
living; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the goals and objectives of the New Society require innovative
social service schemes and strategies to enable the most disadvantaged
to be self-reliant and independent, so that he can participate in
national development, an attempt to solve a Filipino problem the
Filipino way; and chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, changing "Department of Social Welfare" to "Department of
Social Services and Development" will give the Department the more
accurate institutional identity in keeping with its productivity and
development thrust;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree:cralaw:red
Section 1. Changing the name of the Department. — The
Department of Social Welfare, created under Republic Act Numbered
Fifty-Four Hundred Sixteen, shall henceforth be known as the Department
of Social Services and Development, with the same organizational
structure, powers, duties and functions prescribed under Presidential
Decree No. 1, as amended: Provided, That the Secretary of the
Department shall be authorized to initiate and establish such rules and
regulations as may be deemed necessary for the Department to carry out
its objectives and functions effectively, subject to approval of the
President. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 2. Repealing Clause. — All provisions of
existing laws, decrees, orders, proclamations, instructions, rules and
regulations, or parts thereof, contrary to or inconsistent or in
conflict with any of the provisions of this Decree are hereby repealed,
amended and/or modified accordingly.
Section 3. Effectivity. — This Decree shall take
effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 8th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and seventy-six.
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