WHEREAS, Section 7 of Republic Act No. 7796, otherwise known as the TESDA Act of 1994, provides that the TESDA Board shall be composed of the following:

œThe Secretary of Labor and Employment	- Chairperson
Secretary of Education, Culture and Sports	- Co-Chairperson
Secretary of Trade and Industry	- Co-Chairperson
Secretary of Agriculture	- Member
Secretary of the Interior and Local Government	- Member
Director-General of the TESDA Secretariat	- Member

œIn addition, the President of the Philippines shall appoint the following members from the private sector: two (2) representatives, from the employer/industry organization, one of whom shall be a woman; three (3) representatives from the labor sector, one of whom shall be a woman; and two (2) representatives of the national associations of private technical-vocational education and training institutions, one of whom shall be a woman. As soon as all the members of the private sector are appointed, they shall so organize themselves that the term of office of one third (1/3) of their number shall expire every year. The members from the private sector appointed thereafter to fill vacancies caused by expiration of terms shall hold office for three (3) years. 

WHEREAS, the President, pursuant to the same Section of the TESDA Act of 1994, is authorized to œrevise the membership of the TESDA Board, whenever the President deems it necessary for the effective performance of the Board ™s functions through an administrative order; 

WHEREAS, during the regional consultations on the preparation of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the TESDA Act of 1994 held in November 1994 wherein all sectors were represented, there was a clamor for increasing the number of members of the TESDA Board, more particularly the private sector involved in technical education and skills development; and

WHEREAS, the President finds it necessary, for the effective performance of the TESDA Board ™s functions, to revise the composition of the Board.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. The composition of the TESDA Board as provided in Section 7 of Republic Act No. 7796 shall be revised to include the following additional members:

a. The Secretary of Science and Technology as an ex-officio member;
b. Two (2) additional members from the employer/industry organization; and
c. Three (3) additional members from the labor sector.

Section 2. This Administrative Order shall take effect upon its publication in a newspaper of general circulation.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 20th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Five.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary