Question & AnswerQ&A (PROCLAMATION NO. 186)
Republic Act No. 505 is an act creating the provinces of Oriental Mindoro and Occidental Mindoro.
The President of the Philippines has the authority to fix the date of effectivity of Republic Act No. 505, as conferred by section 8 of the Act.
Proclamation No. 186 fixed the date of effectivity of Republic Act No. 505 on November 15, 1950.
Elpidio Quirino was the President of the Philippines when Proclamation No. 186 was signed.
Proclamation No. 186 officially declared the date when Republic Act No. 505 would take effect, making its provisions operable from that day forward.
Teodoro Evangelista, the Executive Secretary, signed Proclamation No. 186 beside the President.
Section 8 of Republic Act No. 505 is cited as the legal basis for the President's power to fix the date of effectivity.
The date is expressed with reference to the Independence of the Philippines, indicated as 'the fourth', meaning the fourth year after independence.
The President set his hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed to Proclamation No. 186.
The provinces of Oriental Mindoro and Occidental Mindoro were created under Republic Act No. 505.