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."

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 719
• Sections: 4

Preamble

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

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."

Section 2 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.

Section 3 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