Practice question
A DOLE legislative rule subject to mandatory publication declares itself effective immediately on signature but is never properly published. No special law dispenses with the applicable requirement. Does the immediate-effect clause alone cure the omission?
- Yes, signatures always replace public notice
- No
- Yes, an agency may automatically exempt its own rules
- Yes, unpublished obligations bind everyone by default
- Yes, actual knowledge of one official proves public publication
Legal references
- Labor Code, Articles 4-5: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
- Tañada v. Tuvera, G.R. No. L-63915, December 29, 1986, MAIN resolution: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1986/dec1986/gr_l-63915_1986.html
- Executive Order No. 200, June 18, 1987, amending Civil Code Article 2: https://lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1987/eo_200_1987.html
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