ESTABLISHING A CIVIL REGISTRATION SYSTEM FOR MUSLIM FILIPINOS

WHEREAS, civil registration is the systematic recording of act and events
concerning the civil status of persons;

WHEREAS, civil registration is meant for all Filipinos, regardless of
political affiliation or religious belief, and hence an effective tool of
attaining national solidarity and unity that can spur economic recovery and
growth;

WHEREAS, Muslim Filipinos have yet to be assimilated into the system of
civil registration established on 27 February 1931 by Act No. 3753 because of
their district customs, practices and rites;

WHEREAS, this Administration has acknowledged with much concern the
problems and inconveniences encountered and experienced by Muslim Filipinos
whose civil status has remained undocumented;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL
V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the establishment
of a system of civil registration that considers the distinct customs,
practices and rites of Muslim Filipinos, and hereby order:

SECTION 1. The Civil Registrar General shall immediately implement the rules
and regulations governing the registration of acts and events concerning civil
status of Muslim Filipinos as provided in Administrative Order No. 2, Series of
1993;

SEC. 2. The Civil Registrar General shall collaborate with the officials of
the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, local government units, and other
government agencies and instrumentalities in the conduct of information
dissemination, trainings, conferences, and seminars of city/municipal civil
registrars and other civil registration personnel.

SEC. 3. The Civil Registrar General is hereby authorized to exercise such
powers and perform such functions as may be necessary for the proper and
effective implementation and maintenance of the system of civil registration
for Muslim Filipinos.

SEC. 4. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Order, the
National Statistics Office is hereby authorized to use its savings from the
1993 appropriations and; in case of insufficiency thereof, the necessary amount
shall be taken from the savings of the Office of the President.

SEC. 5. This order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this
15th day
of February in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety-four.

(Sgd.) FIDEL
V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary

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