Scope of Administrative Law

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C.

Scope of Administrative Law

Broadly conceived, administrative law covers the following:

(1) the law which fixes the administrative organization and structure of the government; (2) the
law, the execution or enforcement of which is entrusted to administrative authorities; (3) the
law which governs public officers including their competence (to act), rights, duties, liabilities,
election, etc.; (4) the law which creates administrative agencies, defines their powers and
functions, prescribes their procedures, including the adjudication or settlement by them of
contested matters involving private interests; (5) the law which provides the remedies,
administrative or judicial, available to those aggrieved by administrative actions or decisions;
(6) the law which governs judicial review of, or relief against, administrative actions or
decisions; (7) the rules, regulations, orders and decisions (including presidential proclamations)
made by administrative authorities dealing with the interpretation and enforcement of the laws
entrusted to their administration; and (8) the body of judicial decisions and doctrines dealing
with any of the above.

D. Sources of Administrative Law

Law that controls administrative authorities

-Constitution, statutes, judicial decisions, Executive Orders, Administrative Orders, etc

Law made by the administrative authorities

-General regulations and particular determinations; constitute under delegations of power


embodied in statutory administrative law, and imposing and constantly expanding body of law.

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