EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 426, March 18, 1961

FIXING OFFICE HOURS DURING THE HOT SEASON

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 564 of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended by Republic Act No. 1880, the office hours from Monday to Friday of all departments, bureaus, offices, agencies, and instrumentalities of the government, including the provincial, city, and municipal governments and all corporations owned or controlled by the government, during the period from April 3 to June 15, 1961, both dates inclusive, shall be from seven thirty o’clock in the morning to twelve thirty o’clock in the afternoon. The provisions of this Order shall not apply to the offices in the City of Baguio, whether national, provincial, or municipal.

This Order shall not oblige the Head of any department, bureau, or office to reduce, as herein provided, the office hours in his department, bureau, or office, but leaves the same to his discretion, subject to the requirements of the service, and provided that the usual volume of work is not diminished by the reduction of office hours.

Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifteenth.

(SGD.) CARLOS P. GARCIA

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) NATALIO P. CASTILLO

Executive Secretary