MALACAÑANG
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 396

CONSOLIDATING THE SOCIAL WELFARE COMMISSION AND THE PRESIDENT’S ACTION COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL AMELIORATION INTO THE SOCIAL WELFARE ADMINISTRATION

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Republic Act Numbered Four hundred twenty-two, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

The Social Welfare Commission and the President’s Action Committee on Social Amelioration are hereby consolidated into the Office of Social Welfare Administration. The present Commissioner of Social Welfare shall be the head of the office and shall hereafter be known as the Social Welfare Administrator.

The personnel, powers, duties, functions, activities, equipment, materials, properties and records of the Social Welfare Commission and the President’s Action Committee on Social Amelioration are hereby transferred to the Social Welfare Administration.

Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary

Source: Presidential Museum and Library

Quirino, E. (1951). Executive Order No. 396 : Consolidating the Social Welfare Commission and the President’s Action Committee on Social Amelioration into the Social Welfare Administration. Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines, 47 (1), 1.