ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 171, January 07, 1956

DIRECTING DEPARTMENT HEADS AND OTHER APPOINTING OFFICERS IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THOSE IN THE CORPORATIONS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT, TO SUBMIT TO THE PRESIDENT THE NAMES OF PROPOSED APPOINTEES TO OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS THEREIN.

By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

1. All department heads and other appointing officers or entities in the Executive Branch of the Government, including those in all corporation owned and controlled by the Government, before making any appointments in their respective departments, offices, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, shall submit to the Office of the President for consideration the names of the persons proposed for appointment, the positions to which they are to be appointed, the amount of salaries they will receive and their educational attainments and qualifications.

2. The Bureau of Civil Service and the Budget Commission shall not give due course to any appointment unless it appears that it has been previously passed upon by the Office of the President as herein-above provided.

3. Proposed appointments to positions in the Central Bank, Philippine National Bank, Rehabilitation Finance Corporation, and in other corporations owned and controlled by the Government where such appointments are not subject to civil service law, rules and regulations, shall be submitted direct to the Office of the President, while these so subject shall be submitted through the Office of the Administrator of Economic Coordination as regards corporations under the executive supervision of the latter.

4. Appointments submitted to the Office of the President in violation of the foregoing provisions shall be returned disapproved to the department, office, agency, instrumentality, entity or corporation from which it originated.

5. The Commissioner of Civil Service, the Commissioner of the Budget, and the Administrator of Economic Coordination are especially enjoined to see to it that the provisions of this Order insofar as it affects their respective offices are strictly complied with.

Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) MARIANO YENKO, JR.

Assistant Executive Secretary