Implementing the Reorganization of the Public Service Commission

September 29, 1972

LETTER OF IMPLEMENTATION NO. 1

IMPLEMENTING THE REORGANIZATION OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1, dated September 23, 1972, Reorganizing the Executive Branch of the National Government, the Board of Transportation is hereby activated in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Integrated Reorganization Plan and the following instructions:

1. The functions of the abolished Public Service Commission, together with its appropriations, records, equipment, property and subordinate personnel are transferred to the appropriate specialized regulatory boards established under the Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communications, as provided in Article III of Chapter I, Part X of the Integrated Reorganization Plan.

2. The activation of the Board of Transportation shall be subject to the following guidelines:

a. Upon the designation of the full-time Chairman of the Board, said Chairman shall immediately organize provisionally the technical and non-technical staffs of the Board;

b. Said chairman shall discharge the functions appertaining to the Board under the Integrated Reorganization Plan, but his actions and decisions shall be provisional in character and subject to the ratification of the Board once fully constituted;

c. Said Chairman shall, in addition, provisionally perform the functions of the Board of Communications and the Board of Power and Waterworks under the Integrated Reorganization Plan, subject to the ratification of the latter Boards once fully constituted; and

d. The above arrangements shall continue until the Board of Transportation, Board of Communications and Board of Power and Waterworks hereby terminated.

3. The Code Commission shall cease to exist as of the date hereof.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 29th day of September in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Two.