Pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of. the Philippines, do hereby order that the National Security Council created under Executive Order No. 330, dated July 1, 1950, which superseded Executive Order No. 40, dated January 13, 1947, shall be composed of the following members:

The President of the Philippines	Chairman
The Vice-President of the Philippines	Member
The President of the Senate	œ
The Speaker of the House of Representatives	œ
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs	œ
The Secretary of National Defense	œ
The Secretary of Finance	œ
The Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources	œ
The Secretary of Justice	œ
The Executive Secretary	œ
The Press Secretary	œ
The Majority Floor Leader of the Senate	œ
The Minority Floor Leader of the House of Representatives	œ
The Minority Floor Leader of the Senate	œ
The Minority Floor Leader of the House of Representatives	œ
The Chairman of the Committee on National Defense and Security of the Senate	œ
The Chairman of the Committee on National Defense and	œ
Security of the House of Representatives	œ
The Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Senate	œ
The Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives	œ

The Executive Secretary shall act as the Secretary of the Council and the Press Secretary shall take charge of the informational phase of the activities of the Council.

The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Director of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, and the Civil Defense Administrator shall act as: Technical Advisers of the Council.

The National Security Council shall advise the President on matters of national security and defense and make recommendations on such other subjects as the President may from time to time submit for study and consideration. It shall also perform the duties and functions prescribed in Sections 1 and 2 of Executive Order No. 35, dated May 20, 1954.

Done in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the thirteenth.


By the President:
(Sgd.) JUAN C. PAJO
Executive Secretary