Practice question
An existing statute expressly grants an eligible applicant a thirty-day period to submit documents. To reduce administrative queues, an executive order cuts that period to five days and commands rejection of all later submissions. Officials concede that the statute grants no authority to shorten the period. They defend the order solely as efficient administration. Which assessment is best?
- Efficiency permits every contradiction of statutory rights
- The order is valid because an executive order has a later date
- General administrative authority does not permit this admitted alteration of the statutory period
- The department may choose any deadline if it publishes a notice
- The statutory period disappears whenever the President disagrees
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, administrative-power discussion: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/36082
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