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SEC. 13.
Service
effective
matters.
staff
5
Finance
and Management Service.
The Finance
and Managementshall
be responSIble
for providIng
the
Office
with efficient
and
advice and assistance
on budgetary,
financial
and management
SEC. 14.
Legal
Service.
The Legal Service
shall
be responsible
for
providing
the
members of the southern cultural
communities
with
the
legal
education
and assistance
in case of litigations
involving
their
persons
or
interests;
undertake
research,
compilation
and codification
of customary laws
and traditions
of each tribe
of the southern cultural
communities
as well
as
existing
legislations;
assist
the Legislative
Branch of the national
government
in
initiating
and enacting
legislation
benefitting
the
southern
cultural
communities;
extend
technical
assistance
for the
organization
and orderly
conduct
of
tribal
adjudication
councils;
coordinate
with
duly
constituted
;uthorities
in providing
protective
service
to members of the southern
cultural
communities;
act
as legal
counsel
of
the
Office;
investigate
cases
involving
the
Office's
personnel;
recommend to the
Office
appropriate
recommendations
pertaining
thereto.
SEC. 15.
Units.
Economic Affairs
Unit,
External Affairs Unit.
1
The
Units
Cultural
of the
Office
Affairs
Unit and of
The
{a)
.(b)
Ii,
community
studies
Economic Affairs
Promote and develop economic livelihood
projects
the
extension
of loans,
entrepreneurship,
assistance
to the members of-the.so~thern
cultural
consist
of
Relations
Unit
shall
the
and
have
'and program$ through
trade
and marketing
communities;
Undertake
researches
and studies
which would serve as inputs
to policy
and plan formulation
and program and project
implementation
relative
to the economic well-being
of southern
cultural
communities,
including
the
development,
protection
and conservation
of the
physical
environment
within
their
ancestral
lands for
the
maintenance
of
ecological
balance and for the conservation
of their
patrimony;
(c)
Implement
assistance
(d)
Formulate
and implement
manpower
training
projects
for
the
economic
development
communities;
(e)
shall
Tribal
economic
development
projects
and
coordinate
relief
of whatever nature
to the southern
cultural
communities;
Conduct
feasibility
assistance,
in~ludlng
cultural
communities;
health
and
Iof
the
self-help
southern
cultural
regarding
the
provisions
of medical
and nutrition
services
to the
southern
(f)
Oversee
or
supervise
the effective
and efficient
implementation
of
policies,
plans,
programs and projects
of the
Office
on economic
community livelihood
development
by Regional
and Field Offices;
(g)
Design,
formulate
and implement land-use
development
policies
plans
for ancestral
and tribal
lands including
resettlement
areas
the southern
cultural
communities;
and
for