WHEREAS, it
is necessary to link directly the functions of the Bureau of the Census
and Statistics with the requirements of national social and economic
development planning;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the National Economic and Development Authority, being the
highest development planning body, is the logical focal point for
securing the desired linkage that will give more development
orientation in the operations of the Bureau of the Census and
Statistics and make it serve more efficiently the requirements of the
development planning; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, to attain this objective, the organizational status and form
of the Bureau of the Census and Statistics should be redefined and
reconstituted under the administrative supervision of the National
Economic and Development Authority;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the constitution, do hereby
order and decree:cralaw:red
Section 1. The Bureau of the Census and Statistics of
the Department of Trade is hereby reconstituted as a new agency to be
known as the National Census and Statistics Office. The Office shall be
transferred from the Department of Trade and placed under the
administrative supervision of the National Economic and Development
Authority.
Section 2. The Office shall be headed by an Executive
Director and shall have the same organizational structure and functions
prescribed for the Bureau of the Census and Statistics under the
Integrated Reorganization Plan, as amended: Provided, However, That the
Director General of the National Economic and Development Authority may
make modifications thereon as may be necessary: Provided, Further, That
except for the Executive Director and Assistant Executive Director who
shall be appointed by the President, upon recommendation of the
Director General of the National Economic and Development Authority,
all other personnel of the Office shall be appointed by the Executive
Director and shall be under his control and supervision: Provided,
Furthermore, That the staffing pattern for high-level professional and
technical personnel of the Office which shall be prepared for purposes
of implementing the reorganization prescribed for the Bureau of the
Census and Statistics under the Plan shall be reviewed and recommended
for approval by the Director General of the National Economic and
Development Authority: Provided, Finally, That the regular professional
and technical personnel of the Office shall be exempt from the coverage
of the classification and compensation plans of the Wage and Position
Classification Office, and Civil Service rules and regulations.
Section 3. The present personnel complement of the
Bureau of the Census and Statistics together with its applicable
appropriations, records, equipment and property shall be transferred to
the Office herein created. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 4. The National Economic and Development
Authority shall: (a) provide general policies and priorities which
shall serve as the general framework for the statistical operations of
the Office; (b) review and recommend for approval statistical programs
and budgets for such programs, as recommended by the Office.
Section 5. The Office shall assist the Statistical
Advisory Board and the National Economic and Development Authority in
the formulation of a continuing comprehensive statistical program for
the government and shall provide technical assistance and support to
projects of other statistical agencies and institutions particularly
those concerned with the improvement of economic statistics.
Section 6. This Decree shall take effect and shall be
implemented immediately.
Section 7. All laws, executive orders, decrees, rules
and regulations, or parts thereof, contrary to or inconsistent with the
provisions of this Decree are hereby repealed, amended or modified
accordingly.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 20th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-four.
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