Practice question
A national-agency respondent has completed the full ninety-day preventive suspension allowed in a case governed by Section 37. The case remains undecided, no respondent-caused delay is excluded and no other law extends the period. What follows?
- Automatic dismissal of every charge on the merits.
- Automatic reinstatement to service, while the administrative case may continue.
- Automatic conversion into a permanent dismissal penalty.
- An additional indefinite unpaid period solely because the case is pending.
- Automatic acquittal in any separate criminal case.
Legal references
- 2025 RACCS, Section 37, duration and reinstatement: https://csc.gov.ph/phocadownload/userupload/paio/2025_ORAOHRA_AND_RACCS/2025_RACCS_19_September.pdf
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