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Statutory Enactment
While Executive Orders are “acts of the president providing for rules of a general
or permanent character in the implementation or execution of constitutional or statutory
powers” (Sec.2, Book III, Title I, Chap.2, 1987 Administrative Code). EO 292 or the law
instituting the Administrative Code of 1987 was enacted and signed by President
Corazon Aquino when she was a revolutionary government President. Under the 1973
and Freedom Constitutions, the President of the Philippines used to exercise legislative
power in the form of Presidential decrees and executive orders, respectively, which
remains valid until repealed.