Definitions.
Section 9
SEC. 9. Definitions.—As used in this Decree, the term "Administrative agency" means any department or other governmental unit including any government-owned or controlled corporation, any official, or any employee acting or purporting to act by reason of connection with the government but it does not include (1) any court or judge, or appurtenant judicial staff, (2) the members, committees or staffs of the National assembly, or (3) the President or his personal staff, or (4) the members of the Constitutional Commissions and their personal staffs. "Administrative act" refers to any action including decisions, omissions, recommendations, practices, or procedures of an administrative agency. "Failure of justice" refers to the defeat of a particular right, or the failure of reparation for a particular wrong, from the lack or inadequacy of a legal remedy for the enforcement of the one or the redress of the other.