Presidential Decree No. 719 (PD 719) — Amending Presidential Decree No. 690 "Creating the Southern Philippines Development Administration and Abolishing the Commission on National Integration, the Mindanao Development Administration, the Presidential Task Force for the Reconstruction and Development of Mindanao and the Special Program of Assistance for the Rehabilitation of Evacuees (Spare), Appropriating Funds Therefore, and for Other Purposes."
WHEREAS, the Presidential Assistant on National Minorities
(PANAMIN) has amply demonstrated sustained effectiveness in the
implementation of the Government's policies directed towards the care
and upliftment of the nation's cultural minorities;
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 690 transfers the powers,
functions and duties of the defunct Commission on National Integration
to the Southern Philippines Development Administration and the
Department of Agrarian Reform;
WHEREAS, in order not to disrupt the continuing activities
and projects of the Government which have so far proven successful with
regard to the non-muslim hill tribes throughout the country and in order
to consolidate the powers which have heretofore been dispered among
several government agencies concerning these cultural minorities, it is
necessary that said powers, functions and duties be transferred to and
maintained in the PANAMIN;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution,
do hereby decree and make part of the law of the land the following:
SECTION 1. The second paragraph of Section 17 of
Presidential Decree No. 690 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"All the outstanding contracts of the Commission on National
Integration, Mindanao Development Authority, the Presidential Task Force
for the Reconstruction and Development of Mindanao and the Special
Program of Assistance for the Rehabilitation of Evacuees (SPARE) with
other agencies and/or instrumentalities of the government or those with
private entities are assumed by the Administration, except that in the
case of the non-muslim hill tribe cultural minorities all throughout the
Philippines, the powers, functions and duties of the Commission on
National Integration as provided for in Republic Act No. 1888, as
amended, insofar as these non-muslim hill tribes are concerned, shall be
exercised solely by the Office of the President through the
Presidential Assistant on National Minorities."
Repealing Clause.
SEC. 2. Repealing Clause.—All laws, acts decrees,
executive orders and rules and regulations, or parts thereof
inconsistent with this Decree are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.
Effectivity.
SEC. 3. Effectivity.—This Decree shall take
effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of May, in the year
of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.
(Sgd.)
FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President
Republic of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.)
ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary
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