I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me under BOOK III, Title III, Chapter 10, Section 31, of the 1987 Administrative Code, do hereby order:

1. A GAB Anti- Illegal Gambling Unit is hereby created as an organic unit of the Games and Amusements Board.
   
   
2. The GAB Anti-Illegal Gambling Unit shall combat and prevent the existence and proliferation of illegal bookie joints and other illegal forms of organized gambling in professional sports and amusement games.
   
   
3. The GAB Anti-Illegal Gambling Unit shall be composed of organic and detailed personnel. The organic personnel shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Games and Amusements Board according to the staffing pattern authorized by the Games and Amusements Board and approved by the Department of Budget and Management. The detailed personnel shall be drawn on detail from the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation and other law-enforcement agencies of the Government.
   
   
4. The Task Force on Anti-Gambling, which was created pursuant to Letters of Instructions Nos. 717 and 797, dated June 30, 1978 and January 24, 1979, respectively, and whose operation was suspended under Memorandum Order No. 255, dated September 18, 1989, is hereby abolished. All funds, records, equipment and other properties thereof are hereby transferred to the GAB Anti-Illegal Gambling Unit.
   
   
5. The Chairman of the Games and Amusements Board shall submit quarterly reports on the operations of the GAB Anti-Illegal Gambling Unit to the Executive Secretary, who may issue, from time to time, oversight orders to protect public interest.
   
   
6. Letters of Instructions Nos. 717 and 797, dated June 30,1978 and January 24, 1979, respectively; Administrative Order No. 19, dated April 6, 1987; Memorandum Orders Nos. 10 and 255, dated April 22,1986 and September 18,1989, respectively, and other orders inconsistent or in conflict with this Administrative Order are hereby revoked accordingly.
   
   
7. This Administrative Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 17th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-two.


By the President:
(Sgd.) FRANKLIN M. DRILON
Executive Secretary