WHEREAS, the present thrusts and priorities in energy has created such a voluminous workload for the Minister of Energy making it necessary to create the position of another Deputy Minister to assist him in effectively and efficiently administering the Ministry of Energy.

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby order the creation of the position of an additional Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Energy.

The newly created position of Deputy Minister of Energy shall carry all the rights, honors and privileges pertaining to such position.

Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of March in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-one.


By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant