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Practice question: Investigative, Factfinding, Licensing, and Rate-fixing Powers

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A continuing license holder submits neither a timely nor a sufficient renewal application. He invokes Section 18 as automatically preventing expiration solely because he hopes to renew someday. With no other law or exception assumed, which answer is best?
  1. The stated timely-and-sufficient-application conditions for Section 18’s protection are not established.
  2. Any future hope is the same as a sufficient timely application.
  3. The section automatically grants every person a lifetime license.
  4. A licensing agency can never finally decide renewal.
  5. The expiration date must always be erased regardless of the application.

Legal references

  • Executive Order No. 292, Book VII, Sections 2(10)-(11), 9, 13, 17 and 18: https://lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1987/eo_292_1987.html

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