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The government of the Philippines (Filipino: Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas) has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and democratic constitutional republic in which the president functions as both the head of state and the head of government of the country within a pluriform ...
Since 1946, the laws passed by the Congress, including legal codes, have been titled Republic Acts. [b] While Philippine legal codes are, strictly speaking, also Republic Acts, they may be differentiated in that the former represents a more comprehensive effort in embodying all aspects of a general area of law into just one legislative act.
February 11, 1998 The Animal Welfare Act of 1998 RA 9184 January 10, 2003 Government Procurement Reform Act, establishes the creation of the Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB) and the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) RA 9208 May 26, 2003 Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003: RA 9262 March 8, 2004
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Laws of the 14th Congress of the Philippines; Laws of the 15th Congress of the Philippines; ... at 11:38 (UTC). Text is ...
The Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916, sometimes known as the "Jones Law", modified the structure of the Philippine government by removing the Philippine Commission as the legislative upper house and replacing it with a Senate elected by Filipino voters, creating the Philippines' first fully elected national legislature. This act also explicitly ...
The Sixth Annual Report of the United States High Commission to the Philippine Island to the President and Congress of the United States, Covering the Fiscal Year July 1, 1941, to June 30, 1942, Washington D.C. October 20, 1942; Executive Orders of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Manila, Bureau of Printing 1945
The maritime zones act demarcates key parts of the Philippine archipelago’s territory and outlying waters where it has full sovereignty and sovereign rights under international law and the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, Philippine officials said.
The Public Service Act of the Philippines, also recognized as Commonwealth Act No. 146, is a Philippine law that was signed into law by President Manuel L. Quezon on November 7, 1936, which overseeing public services in the country. Originating in 1936 during the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the Act's primary goal is to regulate and oversee ...