WHEREAS, a Presidential Committee to Assist the National Museum was constituted under Administrative Order No. 246, series of 1996;

WHEREAS, Section 1 of Administrative Order No. 246 provided for the appointment of five (5) private sector representatives to the committee;

WHEREAS, Administrative Order No. 246-A, series of 1996 increased to six (6) the private sector representatives to the committee;

WHEREAS, there is a need to further increase the membership of the private sector representatives to the Committee to fast-track the rehabilitation and development of the National Museum.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby amend Administrative Order No. 246-A, series of 1996, by increasing from six (6) to eight (8) the private sector representatives to the Presidential Committee to Assist the National Museum, one of whom shall be the President of the Cabinet Ladies Foundation.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 21st day of February, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Six.

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

By the President:
(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary