WHEREAS, under Executive Order No. 611 the Presidential Committee on Judicial Reorganization was given only 30 days within which to submit a plan to the President for the reorganization of the entire judiciary which was not sufficient time;

WHEREAS, to give the President options as to which plan should be followed, it is necessary that alternative plans be submitted by the Committee;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President and Prime Minister of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby amend Executive Order No. 611 as follows:

1. The Committee shall formulate plans on the reorganization of the Judiciary which shall be submitted within seventy (70) days from August 7, 1980 to provide the President sufficient options for the reorganization of the entire Judiciary which shall embrace all lower courts, including the Court of Appeals, the Courts of First Instance, the City and Municipal Courts, and all Special Courts, but excluding the Sandigang Bayan.

2. In the performance of its functions, the Committee may call upon any Ministry, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government for assistance.

Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of September in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.


By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Senior Presidential Assistant