I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

Section 1. Section 1 of Executive Order No. 878 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 1. The Office of the Government Corporate Counsel shall be headed by the Government Corporate Counsel whose rank, emoluments and privileges shall be the same as those of the Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals. He shall be assisted by a Deputy Government Corporate Counsel whose rank, emoluments and privileges shall be the same as those of an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals, and ten (10) Assistant Government Corporate Counsels whose rank, emoluments and privileges shall be the same as those of a Regional Trial Judge of the Regional Trial Courts.

The Government Corporate Counsel, Deputy Government Corporate Counsel, and Assistant Government Corporate Counsels must be officers learned in law, of recognized competence, with experience in the practice of law for at least ten (10) years, and at least thirty-five (35) years of age.

The incumbent Government Corporate Counsel, Deputy Government Corporate Counsel, and Assistant Government Corporate Counsels shall be entitled to the rights, emoluments and privileges vested upon them as of the time of their appointments, without need of new appointments."

Section 2. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 26th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.


By the President:

(Sgd.) JOKER P. ARROYO
Executive Secretary