Pursuant to the continuing authority of the President to transfer any function under the Office of the President to any other department or agency under the provision of subsection [2], Section 31, Chapter 10, Title III, Book III of the 1987 Administrative Code, the following is hereby transferred to the Secretary of Justice or his duly authorized representative:

1. Action on immigration matters, including waiver of visas and admission of aliens, except deportation matters.

Provision of Letter of Implementation No. 47 dated 18 August 1976 and of other executive issuances inconsistent herewith are repealed or modified accordingly.

The Administrative Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 23^rd day of August, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Four.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary