Practice question
A statute grants a benefit to qualified workers without an additional service-year requirement. The implementing agency adds a five-year requirement that the statute expressly excludes. The agency cites only administrative convenience. What is the central defect?
- The agency used the number five.
- Workers can never be subject to any regulation.
- All administrative rules are invalid.
- The regulation contradicts the statute it purports to implement.
- Convenience always overrides statutory eligibility.
Legal references
- People v. Maceren, G.R. No. L-32166, October 18, 1977, main decision, limits of administrative rulemaking: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1977/oct1977/gr_32166_1977.html
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