Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 509)
The main purpose of Executive Order No. 509 is to amend Executive Order No. 495, series of 1991, by excluding the Boy Scouts of the Philippines from its coverage and to address other related matters.
Executive Order No. 509 revokes the dissolution and conversion of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines as provided under Annex B of Executive Order No. 495, restoring Commonwealth Act No. 111 and Presidential Decree No. 460 prior to their repeal under EO No. 495.
Conversion is defined as a variant of the divestment process whereby a government-owned or controlled corporation is dissolved, and exclusive authority is granted to its management to form a new private corporation with the same name, objectives, powers, and functions but without government funding, except for existing assets that may be donated.
Regularization refers to transforming a government-owned or controlled corporation into either (1) a regular government agency with the same objectives, powers, and functions except corporate ones and attached to a department in the Executive Branch, or (2) a unit integral to an existing agency or executive department with the same objectives, powers, and functions except corporate ones.
Commonwealth Act No. 111 and Presidential Decree No. 460 were restored as they were prior to their repeal under Executive Order No. 495.
Executive Order No. 509 amends Section 1 of EO No. 495 and excludes the Boy Scouts of the Philippines from its coverage while modifying other provisions to conform with supervening developments and laws such as Republic Act No. 7181.
The Order shall take effect immediately after fifteen (15) days following its publication in a national newspaper of general circulation or in the Official Gazette.
Yes, all laws, rules, regulations, and other issuances or parts thereof contrary to or inconsistent with Executive Order No. 509 are repealed or modified accordingly.