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Practice question: Kinds of Administrative Rules and Regulations

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Practice question

Does EO 292’s broad definition of rule itself make every genuinely internal instruction subject to identical publication treatment?
  1. Yes, classification and every procedure are the same question.
  2. Yes, Tañada abolished every distinction.
  3. No; the applicable legal treatment still distinguishes genuinely internal and external regulatory effects.
  4. No; because internal instructions can never be government acts.
  5. Yes; every staff schedule is a statute.

Legal references

  • Executive Order No. 292, Administrative Code of 1987: https://lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1987/eo_292_1987.html Book VII, Section 2(2).
  • Tañada v. Tuvera, G.R. No. L-63915, December 29, 1986, main resolution: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1986/dec1986/gr_l-63915_1986.html

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