Title
Conversion of Roxas High School Annex to Abaroan NHS
Law
Republic Act No. 8421
Decision Date
Nov 27, 1997
Republic Act No. 8421 converts the Roxas National Comprehensive High School Annex into an independent high school called Abaroan National High School, transferring all assets, liabilities, and personnel rights, with necessary funds provided by the Department of Education.

Questions (Republic Act No. 8421)

To convert the Barangay Abaroan Annex of the Roxas National Comprehensive High School (Roxas, Palawan) into an independent national high school to be known as Abaroan National High School, and to appropriate funds for this purpose.

The Barangay Abaroan Annex of Roxas National Comprehensive High School is converted into an independent national high school known as Abaroan National High School.

It is the Barangay Abaroan Annex in Roxas, Palawan.

All assets—immovable and movable—plus records of the Roxas National Comprehensive High School Annex at Barangay Abaroan are transferred, together with its liabilities or obligations.

That the new school assumes any existing debts, obligations, or legal responsibilities previously associated with the annex.

No. Section 2 provides that the positions, rights, and security of tenure of academic and nonacademic personnel who choose to remain and serve shall not be impaired.

Both academic and nonacademic personnel who choose to remain and serve in the new school.

They must choose to remain and serve in the new school.

The amount necessary to implement the Act shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment and thereafter.

The Department of Education, Culture and Sports (now Department of Education). It must promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for effective implementation.

Fifteen (15) days following the completion of its publication in two (2) newspapers of general and nationwide circulation.

Publication in two newspapers of general and nationwide circulation.

It became law automatically under Article VI, Section 27(1) of the Philippine Constitution because the President did not sign it within the constitutional period.

It points to the constitutional rule on automatic lapse into law when the President does not act on a bill within the prescribed time.

Those records and assets are transferred to Abaroan National High School as part of the conversion to an independent national high school.

Whether the Department of Education, Culture and Sports can issue implementing rules that align with and do not expand beyond the authority granted by the Act.


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