Question & AnswerQ&A (Act No. 2930)
The main purpose of Act No. 2930 is to provide for the publication of all advertisements, notices, and other official documents in the Official Gazette and to regulate such publication.
All Acts and resolutions of a public character of the Legislature, all executive orders, decisions or abstracts of decisions of the Supreme Court deemed important, and all public notices, advertisements, or intelligence not of a judicial character from the various government departments, bureaus, offices, and branches must be published in the Official Gazette.
Yes, advertisements calling for bids must be published in the Official Gazette and also be posted for five days on the main door of the proper bureaus or offices.
The Director of Printing, with the approval of the proper Department head, is authorized to publish the Official Gazette as frequently as the government's public interest may require.
Yes, the Director of Printing is authorized to appoint such personnel as may be necessary, in addition to those already employed in the Bureau of Printing.
Yes, the Director of Printing is empowered to make and collect charges for subscriptions to the Official Gazette and for publications published therein, which shall be payable by the persons interested.
The Emergency Board is authorized to provide such sum as necessary out of the funds appropriated for it by the current Appropriation Act to implement the provisions of this Act.
All acts or parts of acts providing for the publication of the mentioned documents in any form other than that prescribed by this Act, and all other inconsistent acts, are repealed by this Act.
The Act took effect upon its approval on April 5, 1920.
Only decisions or abstracts of decisions of the Supreme Court deemed by the court of sufficient importance to be published must be included; other judicial character documents are excluded.