WHEREAS, a Career Executive Service Development Program to form a pool of selected and development-oriented career administrators is one of the priorities of the Integrated Reorganization Plan;

WHEREAS, the Career Executive Service Board, created for the purpose, requires an expanded membership in order to represent a more comprehensive picture of the government service;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and General Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, as amended, do hereby order and decree that:

SECTION 1. Sections 2 and 3, Part III, Article IV of the Integrated Reorganization Plan, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 336, dated November 14, 1973, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

" 2. A Career Executive Service Board, hereinafter referred to as the Board, is created to serve as the governing body of the Career Executive Service. The Board shall consist of the President of the Development Academy of the Philippines and six (6) other members from both the Government and private sectors who are familiar with the principles and methods of personnel administration.”
" 3. The [two] appointive members of the Board shall serve part time and may receive per diem and allowances for meetings attended unless otherwise disqualified by law. They shall have a term of six (6) years."

SEC. 2. The sums of one million pesos (P1,000,000) for the period from December 1, 1973 to June 30, 1974 and one and a half million pesos (P1,500,000) for every fiscal year thereafter are hereby appropriated from the general fund in the National Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to finance the operations of the Board and the implementation of the career executive service program.

This Decree takes effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.