WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 59 dated November 7, 1986 repealed the grant of authority to the former President to order longer periods for the delivery of persons arrested for certain crimes or offenses, under Presidential Decree No. 1404;

WHEREAS, with the issuance of Executive Order No. 59, Article 125 of the Revised Penal Code, without the amendments under Presidential Decree No. 1404, is deemed to have been revived;

WHEREAS, to obviate any doubts, it is believed that Article 125 of the Revised Penal Code should be expressly revived;

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

SECTION 1. Section 1 of Executive Order No. 59 dated November 7, 1986 is hereby modified by adding a second paragraph to read as follows:

œArticle 125 of the of the Revised Penal Code is hereby expressly revived without the amendments under Presidential Decree No. 1404. 

SECTION 2. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 10th day of June in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.


By the President:

(Sgd.) JOKER P. ARROYO
Executive Secretary