WHEREAS, the Constitution does not prescribe the term of office of the Chairman and Members of the Commission on Human Rights unlike those of other Constitutional Commissions;

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

SECTION 1. Section 2, sub-paragraph (c) of Executive Order No. 163 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"The Chairman and Members of the Commission on Human Rights shall be appointed by the President.  Their tenure in office shall be at the pleasure of the President."

SECTION 2. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven


By the President:

(Sgd.) JOKER P. ARROYO
Executive Secretary