Pursuant to Executive Order No. 197 which provides for an allowable increase of 20% and based on the average inflation rate 5.8% for the eight (8) years (2003-2010), the following rate of fees and charges of the Department is hereby upgraded as follows:

 

Nature of Service./Fee/Charge	Old rate/charge	New rate/charge
1. Appeal or Petitions filed against Decisions or Order of officers or agencies as quo	P70.00	P1,000.00
2. Authentication of every signature on any official records or document	P70.00	P100.00
3. Certification of every document of information based on records	P35.00	P50.00
4. Copy fee of every page/sheet of official records or document	P7.00	P10.00

A pauper litigant shall be exempt from the payment of required fess pursuant to Section 21 of Rule 2 and Section 19 Rules of the Court, and Section 13 DAR Memorandum Circular No. 12, Series of 2009 (DAR Manual on Legal Assistance)

This circular supersedes DAR MC No. 15, Series of 2000 and takes effect 15 days after its publication


Adopted: 25 March 2011


(SGD). VIRGILIO R. DELOS REYES
Secretary