Transition Period.
Section 26
SEC. 26. Transition Period. - All transfer of functions, assets, funds, personnel, equipment, properties, transactions, and personnel in the affected national government agencies and the formulation and implementation of the internal organic structures, staffing patterns, operations systems, and revised budgets of the Department and the Commission, shall be completed within six (6) months from the effectivity of this Act, during which existing personnel shall continue to assume their posts in holdover capacities until new appointments are issued. Accordingly, all applications for permits and licenses, and cases pending with HLURB upon the effectivity of this Act and filed during the transition period shall continue to be acted upon by the incumbents until the rules and regulations as provided under this Act shall have been in force.