Ministry units shall actively promote and extend maximum assistance, including the provision of
counterpart or supplementary funds and resources, upon approval by the Minister, to such efforts.
SECTION 21. Attached Agencies. The following are hereby attached to the Ministry:
(a) Population Commision which shall continue as the population planning and coordinating agency;
(b) National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons (formerly the National Commission Concerning
Disabled Persons), which shall serve as a consultative forum and advisory board to the Ministry on all
matters pertaining to the welfare of the physically, mentally and socially disabled.
The governing boards and secretaries of the foregoing attached agencies shall be reorganized
accordingly within one hundred twenty (120) days from the approval of this Executive Order. Personnel,
who are separated from the service, as a result of such reorganization, shall be entitled to the benefits
provided in the second paragraph of Section 23 hereof.
SECTION 22. Abolitions and Transfers. Compliance with the following is hereby prescribed:
(a) The National Commission Concerning Disabled Persons is hereby replaced by the National Council for
the Welfare of Disabled Persons;
(b) The National Executive Committee for the Aging in the Philippines is hereby abolished and its
functions transferred to the Ministry;
(c) The Home Economics Division of the Bureau of Agricultural Extension of the Ministry of Agriculture
and Food is hereby transferred to the Bureau of Women’s Welfare of the Ministry, together with its
functions appropriations, funds, records, equipment, facilities and other assets, as well as the personnel
thereof, as may be necessary, who shall, in a hold-over capacity, continue to perform their respective
duties and responsibilities, and receive the corresponding salaries and benefits unless in the meantime
they are separated from the service pursuant to Executive Order No. 17 (1986) or Article III of the
Freedom Constitution. Incumbents of the transferred division whose positions are not included in the
new position structure and staffing pattern approved and prescribed by the Minister under the
following Section 23 or who are not reappointed, shall be deemed separated from the service and shall
be entitled to the benefits provided in the second paragraph of the same Section 23.
In the foregoing subsections (a) and (b), the transfer of functions includes such appropriations, funds,
records, equipment, facilities, other assets and personnel as, may be necessary to the proper
performance of the transferred functions. The remaining appropriations and funds shall revert to the
General Fund and the remaining records, equipment, facilities and other assets shall be allocated to
such appropriate units as the Minister shall determine or otherwise dispose of, in accordance with the
Government Auditing Code and other pertinent laws, rules and regulations. The liabilities, if any, of the
abolished agencies shall, likewise be treated in accordance with the Government Auditing Code and
other pertinent laws, rules and regulations. Incumbents shall, in a hold-over capacity, continue to
perform their respective duties and responsibilities and receive the corresponding salaries and benefits
unless in the meantime they are separated from the service pursuant to Executive Order No. 17 (1986)
or-Article III of the Freedom Constitution, Incumbents, whose positions are not included in tho new
position structure and staffing pattern approved and prescribed by the Minister for the Agency or