Policy, purpose, and factual basis
- Executive Order No. 1017 increases combat pay and hazardous duty pay because such incentives compensate for perils in the performance of combat and hazardous duty.
- Executive Order No. 1017 raises the pay rates because the existing amounts are inadequate due to the general increase in the prices of commodities.
Legal basis and prior reference
- Executive Order No. 1017 is issued under the President’s power vested “by law.”
- The order’s justification cites PD 1527 for the prior hazardous duty pay rate of the Integrated National Police.
Coverage: who receives the pay
- Executive Order No. 1017 applies to officers, enlisted personnel, draftees and extended trainees of the Armed Forces of the Philippines who are performing combat duty.
- Executive Order No. 1017 applies to officers and men of the Integrated National Police who are performing hazardous duty.
- The pay types covered are:
- combat pay for AFP combat duty personnel; and
- hazardous duty pay for INP hazardous duty personnel.
Substantive rule: new monthly rates
- Section 1 sets the monthly rate of combat pay for AFP personnel performing combat duty at PHP 240.00.
- Section 1 sets the monthly rate of hazardous duty pay for INP officers and men performing hazardous duty at PHP 240.00.
- Section 1 applies the new monthly rate to AFP personnel categories expressly named: officers, enlisted personnel, draftees, and extended trainees.
Implementation and funding
- Section 2 directs the Minister of National Defense to issue implementing instructions necessary and proper to carry out the intent of the order.
- Section 3 requires that the funds needed to implement the order be charged against the respective Annual Appropriations of the AFP and INP.