MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 151

SUSPENDING GOVERNMENT OFFICE HOURS IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION AND OLONGAPO CITY FROM NOVEMBER 22 TO 26, 1996

Except for law enforcement agencies and the Bureau of Customs and the Bureau of Internal Revenue, regular office hours for all government offices, including government owned and controlled corporations, in the National Capital Region, and Olongapo City are hereby suspended from November 22 to 26, 1996. Heads of agencies in the areas covered by this Order shall, however, maintain adequate workforces to serve the general public and attend to matters which are critical to the operations of their agencies.

All government offices in these areas shall resume normal services at the start of business hours on 27 November 1996.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 12th day of November in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Six.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:
(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary