EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 264, September 08, 1949

FURTHER AMENDING SECTIONS 5-a AND 5-b OF CHAPTER III OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 178, DATED DECEMBER 17, 1938, ENTITLED “PRESCRIBING THE PROCEDURE, INCLUDING THE MODES OF PROOF, IN CASES BEFORE COURTS-MARTIAL, COURTS OF INQUIRY, MILITARY COMMISSIONS AND OTHER MILITARY TRIBUNALS OF THE ARMY OF THE PHILIPPINES,” AS AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 47, DATED JUNE 6, 1945.

Paragraph 2 of section 5-a of Chapter III of Executive Order No. 178, dated December 17, 1938, amended by Executive Order No. 47, dated June 6, 1945, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

“Under the authority of AW 8, as amended by Republic Act No. 242, the Commanding Officer of a major command or task force, the Commanding Officer of a Division, the Commanding Officer of a Military Area, the Superintendent of the Philippine Military Academy (except for the trial of an officer) are hereby empowered to appoint general courts-martial.”

Paragraph 2 of section 5-b of Chapter III of Executive Order No. 178, dated December 17, 1948, as amended by Executive Order No. 47, dated June 6, 1945, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

“Under the authority of AW 9, as amended by Republic Act No. 242, the Commanding Officer of a garrison, fort, camp, brigade, regiment, detached battalion or squadron, or other detached command or place, zone or commissioned vessel where troops are on duty are hereby empowered to appoint special courts-martial.”

Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourth.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA

Executive Secretary