EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 264, September 08, 1949
FURTHER AMENDING SECTIONS 5-a AND 5-b OF CHAPTER III OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 178, DATED DECEMBER 17, 1938, ENTITLED “PRESCRIBING THE PROCEDURE, INCLUDING THE MODES OF PROOF, IN C…
“Under the authority of AW 8, as amended by Republic Act No. 242, the Commanding Officer of a major command or task force, the Commanding Officer of a Division, the Commanding Officer of a Military Area, the Superintendent of the Philippine Military Academy (except for the trial of an officer) are hereby empowered to appoint general courts-martial.”
Paragraph 2 of section 5-b of Chapter III of Executive Order No. 178, dated December 17, 1948, as amended by Executive Order No. 47, dated June 6, 1945, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
“Under the authority of AW 9, as amended by Republic Act No. 242, the Commanding Officer of a garrison, fort, camp, brigade, regiment, detached battalion or squadron, or other detached command or place, zone or commissioned vessel where troops are on duty are hereby empowered to appoint special courts-martial.”
Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourth.
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary