MCIT on Domestic and Resident Foreign Corporations

Executive Order No. 263 is grounded on Commonwealth Act No. 184, as amended by Commonwealth Act No. 333.
Commonwealth Act No. 184 (as amended) requires the Institute of National Language to prepare a dictionary and grammar of the national language after the national language is proclaimed.
Commonwealth Act No. 184 (as amended) requires publication of the dictionary and grammar within the prescribed period after proclamation and directs the President to order their use and teaching in schools starting from a date to be fixed by the President.
Executive Order No. 263 also cites Executive Order No. 134 dated December 30, 1937, which proclaimed Tagalog as the basis of the national language and set it to take effect two years from promulgation.
Executive Order No. 263 implements the constitutional mandate in Section 3 of Article XIII that the national language be based on one of the existing native languages.

Executive Order No. 263 authorizes the printing and publication of the specific national language reference works prepared by the Institute of National Language.
Executive Order No. 263 directs nationwide adoption in education by requiring teaching of the national language in both public and private schools.
Executive Order No. 263 links the start of school teaching to the completion of the dictionary and grammar materials needed for instruction.

Executive Order No. 263 authorizes printing and publication of “Tagalog-English Vocabulary.”
Executive Order No. 263 authorizes printing and publication of “Ang Balarila Ag Wikang Pambansa” (the grammar of the national language of the Philippines).
The Executive Order treats these works as the dictionary and grammar materials required under the legal mandate on the Institute of National Language.

Executive Order No. 263 requires that the national language of the Philippines be taught in all public and private schools of the country.
Teaching must begin on June 19, 1940.
The order expressly ties implementation to rules and regulations prepared by the Secretary of Public Instruction with Presidential approval.

The Secretary of Public Instruction must prepare the necessary rules and regulations to carry the Executive Order into effect.
The rules and regulations must be prepared with the approval of the President of the Philippines.
Executive Order No. 263 reflects that the Institute of National Language has already performed the main duties imposed upon it by law, enabling implementation to proceed based on completed materials.

Executive Order No. 263 directs that it is not necessary for the Members of the Institute of National Language to hold further sessions.
Further sessions are required only if otherwise directed by the President.