Practice question
A valid law vests appointment of a lower officer in the department head as permitted by Article VII Section 16. The head makes the appointment. Is the title necessarily defective because the President did not personally sign it?
- Yes, all public appointments require the President’s personal signature
- Yes, only elections create office title
- Yes, department heads can never appoint anyone
- Yes, the appointee must inherit the post
- No; the Constitution permits such statutory vesting in the designated authority
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Articles VII Section 16 and VIII Sections 5(6), 8.
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