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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 203
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 203 -
TRANSFERRING CERTAIN ITEMS, PERSONNEL, RECORDS, FUNDS, APPROPRIATIONS,
EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND OTHER PROPERTIES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL, SENATE
AND HOUSE ELECTORAL TRIBUNALS TO THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS
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WHEREAS,
the Commission on Elections should be provided with additional
personnel to perform the added function of being the sole judge of all
contests relating to the elections, returns, and qualifications of all
members of the National Assembly and elective provincial and city
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WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14 of Article XVII of the Constitution,
all records, equipment, buildings, facilities, and other properties of
any office or body abolished or reorganized under the Constitution
shall be transferred to the office or body to which its powers,
functions, and responsibilities substantially pertain; and it appearing
that the Presidential, Senate and House Electoral Tribunals perform
functions which substantially are related to the functions of the
Commission on Elections,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081 dated September 21, 1972, and General
Order No. 1 dated September 22, 1972, do hereby order and decree the
transfer to the Commission on Elections, effective May 1, 1973, of all
the personnel, except those incumbents whose services have heretofore
already been terminated, as well as the funds, appropriations,
equipment, facilities, records and other properties, of the
Presidential, Senate and House Electoral Tribunals: Provided, That the
Chairman of the Commission on Elections shall exercise the authority to
further screen and select the personnel of the aforesaid electoral
tribunals to be retained after June 30, 1973; Provided, further, That
all the personnel not so retained shall, if entitled under the laws
then in force, receive the retirement and other benefits accruing
thereunder in accordance with the provisions of Section 13, Article
XVII of the Constitution.
This Decree takes effect on May 1, 1973.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 5th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-three.
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