Question & AnswerQ&A (Republic Act No. 8416)
The main purpose is to establish a new comprehensive public high school in Barangay Cagnocot, Municipality of Villaba, Province of Leyte, by transferring the high school department of the Leyte National College of Agriculture, Science and Technology into a separate and distinct secondary school known as the Villaba National Comprehensive High School.
The high school department of the Leyte National College of Agriculture, Science and Technology.
It will be located in Barangay Cagnocot, Municipality of Villaba, Province of Leyte.
The Leyte National College of Agriculture, Science and Technology shall donate at least three hectares of its present seventy-hectare land adjacent to and facing Barangay Cagnocot, Villaba, Leyte, for the new school site.
All funds, records, properties, liabilities, and displaced teachers of the secondary program will be transferred to and absorbed by the Villaba National Comprehensive High School.
The Department of Education, Culture and Sports.
The initial funds will be charged against the current year's appropriations of the Leyte National College of Agriculture, Science and Technology - Secondary Department. Subsequent funding for operation and maintenance shall come from the annual General Appropriations Act.
All inconsistent laws, decrees, executive orders, rules, regulations, and other issuances or parts thereof are repealed, amended, or modified accordingly.
It took effect upon its approval and lapsed into law on November 27, 1997, without the signature of the President, in accordance with Article VI, Section 27 (1) of the Philippine Constitution.
Article VI, Section 27 (1) of the 1987 Philippine Constitution allows a bill to lapse into law if the President does not act on it within 30 days of receipt.