QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 9876)
RA 9876 separates the Buguias National High School—Sitio Bot-Oan Annex in Barangay Catlubong, Municipality of Buguias, Benguet from the parent school, converts it into an independent national high school known as Catlubong National High School, and appropriates funds for its operation.
The Buguias National High School—Sitio Bot-Oan Annex is separated from the Buguias National High School.
It is converted into an independent national high school to be known as Catlubong National High School.
All personnel, assets, liabilities, and records of the Buguias National High School—Sitio Bot-Oan Annex are transferred to and absorbed by Catlubong National High School.
The Secretary of Education.
The initial funding shall be charged against the current year’s appropriations of the Buguias National High School—Sitio Bot-Oan Annex.
It shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
The Secretary of Education shall issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of the Act.
Fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette.
The annex ceases to be part of the Buguias National High School and becomes an independent national high school (Catlubong National High School).
Yes. It expressly transfers and absorbs not only assets and records but also liabilities to Catlubong National High School.
Because it ensures continuity by formally moving personnel, resources, legal obligations, and institutional records from the annex within the parent school to the newly created independent school.
Administrative responsibility shifts to Catlubong National High School, while the Secretary of Education remains responsible for implementing the Act through rules, regulations, and programming/funding inclusion.
It breaks the structural linkage for operational identity: the annex is separated and converted into an independent school. However, assets, liabilities, records, and personnel are absorbed by the new entity.
Partly. While it already creates and converts the school by law, Section 3 and Section 4 require the Secretary of Education to include it in the Department’s program and issue rules and regulations, indicating administrative steps are needed for full operationalization.
Section 2: “All personnel, assets, liabilities and records… are hereby transferred to and absorbed by the Catlubong National High School.”