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    This executive order amends Article 2 of the Civil Code of the Philippines regarding the publication of laws for them to take effect. It states that laws will take effect 15 days after being published in either the Official Gazette or a newspaper of general circulation. This change was made because the Official Gazette has an erratic release schedule and limited readership, while newspapers are more widely available and published regularly. By allowing publication in newspapers, more people will be informed of new laws. The order was signed by President Corazon Aquino on June 18, 1987.

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    This executive order amends Article 2 of the Civil Code of the Philippines regarding the publication of laws for them to take effect. It states that laws will take effect 15 days after being published in either the Official Gazette or a newspaper of general circulation. This change was made because the Official Gazette has an erratic release schedule and limited readership, while newspapers are more widely available and published regularly. By allowing publication in newspapers, more people will be informed of new laws. The order was signed by President Corazon Aquino on June 18, 1987.

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    This executive order amends Article 2 of the Civil Code of the Philippines regarding the publication of laws for them to take effect. It states that laws will take effect 15 days after being published in either the Official Gazette or a newspaper of general circulation. This change was made because the Official Gazette has an erratic release schedule and limited readership, while newspapers are more widely available and published regularly. By allowing publication in newspapers, more people will be informed of new laws. The order was signed by President Corazon Aquino on June 18, 1987.

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    This executive order amends Article 2 of the Civil Code of the Philippines regarding the publication of laws for them to take effect. It states that laws will take effect 15 days after being published in either the Official Gazette or a newspaper of general circulation. This change was made because the Official Gazette has an erratic release schedule and limited readership, while newspapers are more widely available and published regularly. By allowing publication in newspapers, more people will be informed of new laws. The order was signed by President Corazon Aquino on June 18, 1987.

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    June 18, 1987

    MALACAÑANG
    MANILA

    BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

    EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 200

    PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF LAWS EITHER IN THE OFFICIAL


    GAZETTE OR IN A NEWSPAPER OF GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE
    PHILIPPINES AS A REQUIREMENT FOR THEIR EFFECTIVITY.

    WHEREAS, Article 2 of the Civil Code partly provides that “laws shall take effect after fifteen
    days following the completion of their publication in the Official Gazette, unless it is otherwise
    provided x x x;”

    WHEREAS, the requirement that for laws to be effective only a publication thereof in the
    Official Gazette will suffice has entailed some problems, a point recognized by the Supreme
    Court in Tañada, et al. vs. Tuvera, et al. (G.R. No. 63915, December 29, 1986), when it observed
    that “[t]here is much to be said of the view that the publication need not be made in the Official
    Gazette, considering its erratic release and limited readership;”

    WHEREAS, it was likewise observed that “[u]ndoubtedly, newspapers of general circulation


    could better perform the function of communicating the laws to the people as such periodicals
    are more easily available, have a wider readership, and come out regularly;” and

    WHEREAS, in view of the foregoing premises Article 2 of the Civil Code should accordingly be
    amended so the laws to be effective must be published either in the Official Gazette or in a
    newspaper of general circulation in the country;

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the


    powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order:

    SECTION 1. Laws shall take effect after fifteen days following the completion of their
    publication either in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation in the
    Philippines, unless it is otherwise provided.

    SEC. 2. Article 2 of Republic Act No. 386, otherwise known as the “Civil Code of the
    Philippines,” and all other laws inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or
    modified accordingly.

    SEC. 3. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately after its publication in the Official
    Gazette.
    Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
    eighty-seven.

    (Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO
    President of the Philippines

    By the President:

    (Sgd.) JOKER P. ARROYO
    Executive Secretary

    Source: Presidential Management Staff

    Office of the President of the Philippines. (1987). [Executive Order Nos. : 171-390]. Manila :


    Presidential Management Staff.

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