QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 932)
RA 8618 converts the existing Narra High School–Panacan Annex in Barangay Panacan, Municipality of Narra, Province of Palawan, into a national high school known as Panacan National High School, and appropriates funds for its implementation.
It is located in Barangay Panacan, Municipality of Narra, Province of Palawan.
Panacan National High School.
The Secretary of Education, Culture and Sports is tasked to issue the necessary rules, orders, and circulars to implement the provisions of the Act.
All personnel, records, assets and properties (including buildings, sites, and improvements), obligations, funds, and appropriations of the Narra High School–Panacan Annex are transferred.
Yes. It expressly includes obligations, funds, and appropriations, in addition to personnel, records, and physical properties.
It changes the school’s status from an annex to a national high school (with the corresponding name and government classification).
The amount necessary for implementation shall be charged against the current year’s appropriations of the Narra National High School–Panacan Annex.
Thereafter, the sums necessary for operation and maintenance of Panacan National High School shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
It takes effect upon its approval.
It states that the Act lapsed into law on April 02, 1998 without the signature of the President, consistent with Article VI, Section 27(1) of the Constitution.
Article VI, Section 27(1) of the 1987 Philippine Constitution—when the President does not sign a bill within the prescribed period, it lapses into law.
It originated in the House of Representatives.
Passed by the House of Representatives on August 5, 1997, and by the Senate on December 10, 1997.
Because it ensures continuity of staffing and employment status by formally moving existing personnel from the annex to the newly converted national high school under the law.