Practice question
An executive department adopts an internal routing chart to ensure applications receive the hearing required by an existing statute. The chart changes neither eligibility nor applicants’ legal duties and is within lawful organizational authority. An officer says it is invalid solely because it is not itself a new statute. Which response is best?
- All administrative details require a constitutional amendment.
- Only a court can prepare internal routing charts.
- A chart necessarily repeals the statute it implements.
- Lawful administrative details can implement an existing law without becoming a new Act of Congress.
- Every internal chart grants unlimited power over private rights.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Sections 1 and 17: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Ople v. Torres, G.R. No. 127685, July 23, 1998, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/36082
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