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WHEREAS, Section 76 of President Decree No. 1177 states, that:

Subsistence. – No official or employee of the national government shall be given subsistence, the cost of which is payable from any fund, except the following and only when an appropriation therefore is specifically provided:

1. Marine officers, engineers and crew of government vessels, launches, and motorboats, who shall take their meals on the mess when abroad the said vessels, launches, or motorboats;
   
   
2. Lightkeepers and other employees in light stations duly authorized by the head of the department to receive subsistence, who shall be furnished raw, canned, or preserved food supplies;
   
   
3. Officials and employees who are required to render service within the premises of hospitals, penal institutions, leper institutions, military installations, and other similar institutions, for a continuous period that includes meal time, may be allowed full subsistence when required to live in said premises to make their services available at any and all times;
   
   
4. Laborers temporarily fielded to isolate or unsettled district shall be furnished the usual rations or the equivalent in cash, at the expense of the government.
   

In hospitals and leper institutions where there are no mess halls of whenever these are inadequate, personnel entitled to subsistence allowance upon request of the personnel concerned subject to the approval by the department head at authorized rates chargeable against the appropriation for supplies and materials authorized in the General Appropriations Act.

WHEREAS, due to the increase in the prices of commodities the present rate of subsistence allowance of these officials and employees is no longer adequate to meet the cost of their food requirements;

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 257, “Increasing The Subsistence Allowance of Officers and Enlisted Personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Including Draftees, Trainees and Probationary Second Lieutenants 1 Ensigns Undergoing Military Training, CMT Cadets On Summer Training, CMT Cadets On Summer Training and Reserve Officers and Enlisted Reservists Undergoing Training Or Assembly/Mobilization Test and Uniformed Members of the Integrated National Police”, provides for an increase in subsistence allowance from P12.00 to P18.00 per day;

WHEREAS, there is a need to rationalize and standardize the rate of subsistence allowance of the said officials and employees;

WHEREAS, Section 5 of Presidential Decree No. 1597 provides that allowances, honoraria and other fringe benefits which may be granted to government employees shall be subject to the approval of the President upon recommendation of the Secretary (Commissioner) of the Budget;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. The rate of subsistence allowance for the officials and employee enumerated in Section 76 of Presidential Decree No. 1177 is hereby increased to P18.00 per day or P6.00 per meal.

SEC. 2. This Order shall take effect not earlier that CY 1989 depending on the availability of funds for the purpose or saving from the 1989 appropriation of each agency concerned.

SEC. 3. The necessary guidelines to implement this Order shall be issued by the Department of Budget and Management.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine.


By the President:

CATALINO MACARAIG, JR.
Executive Secretary