Practice question
An emergency law authorizes food-distribution controls solely to carry out its declared food-security policy. An order instead regulates an unrelated licensing subject that the law does not cover, relying only on the existence of a national emergency. Which principle applies?
- Emergency existence makes every subject automatically delegated
- The licensing subject is valid if it is politically popular
- Declared policy is legally irrelevant
- All executive orders are statutes during emergencies
- The order must remain within the authority necessary and proper to the declared policy and the law’s scope
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article VI, Section 23(2).
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