ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

Government

Political law

Institution or aggregate of institutions

which carries out the rules of action necessary
for men to live in a social state. It is the
aggregate of authorities which rule a society.

Branch of public law which deals with

the organization and operation of different
government organs of the state and defines the
relations of the state with its inhabitants.
Subdivisions of Political law
1.
2.
3.
4.

Constitutional law
Administrative law
Law on Public officers
Law on Public Corporations

Administration
Persons who runs the government for the
time being.
Characteristics of a government:
1. Self-constitutive- not established by any
organization.

Administrative law
Branch of public law which fixes the
organization of government and determines the
competence of administrative authorities who
execute the law, and indicates to the individual
remedies for the violation of his rights.

2. Exclusive control over a population within a

definite territory
3. Self-regulated- bound only by the rules of its
own making.
4. Has clear coercive capability- military.
TOBES, ADAH GWYNNE P.

Section 2, Revised Administrative Code

Government refers to the corporate
governmental entity through which the functions
of government are exercised throughout the
Philippines, including, save as the contrary
appears from the context, the various arms
through which political authority is made
effective in the Philippines, whether pertaining to
the autonomous regions, the provincial, city,
municipal or barangay subdivisions or other
forms of local government.
National Government refers to the
entire machinery of the central government, as
distinguished from the different forms of local
governments.
Local Government refers to the political
subdivisions established by or in accordance
with the Constitution.

Agency of the Government refers to any

of the various units of the Government, including
a department, bureau, office, instrumentality, or
government-owned or controlled corporations, or
a local government or a distinct unit therein.
National Agency refers to a unit of the National
Government.
Local Agency refers to
government or a distinct unit therein.

local

Department refers to an executive

department created by law. For purposes of Book
IV, this shall include any instrumentality, as
herein defined, having or assigned the rank of a
department, regardless of its name or
designation.
Bureau refers to any principal
subdivision or unit of any department. For
purposes of Book IV, this shall include any
principal subdivision or unit of any
instrumentality given or assigned the rank of a
bureau, regardless of actual name or designation,
TOBES, ADAH GWYNNE P.

as in the case of department-wide regional

offices.
Office refers, within the framework of
governmental organization, to any major
functional unit of a department or bureau
including regional offices. It may also refer to
any position held or occupied by individual
persons, whose functions are defined by law or
regulation.
Instrumentality refers to any agency of
the National Government, not integrated within
the department framework vested within special
functions or jurisdiction by law, endowed with
some if not all corporate powers, administering
special funds, and enjoying operational
autonomy, usually through a charter. This term
includes
regulatory
agencies,
chartered
institutions and government-owned or controlled
corporations.

Regulatory agency refers to any agency

expressly vested with jurisdiction to regulate,
administer or adjudicate matters affecting
substantial rights and interests of private persons,
the principal powers of which are exercised by a
collective body, such as a commission, board or
council.
Chartered institution refers to any
agency organized or operating under a special
charter, and vested by law with functions relating
to specific constitutional policies or objectives.
This term includes the state universities and
colleges and the monetary authority of the State.
"Employee", when used with reference
to a person in the public service, includes any
person in the service of the government or any of
its agencies, divisions, subdivisions or
instrumentalities.

TOBES, ADAH GWYNNE P.

"Officer" as distinguished from "clerk"

or "employee", refers to a person whose duties,
not being of a clerical or manual nature, involves
the exercise of discretion in the performance of
the functions of the government. When used with
reference to a person having authority to do a
particular act or perform a particular function in
the exercise of governmental power, "officer"
includes any government employee, agent or
body having authority to do the act or exercise
that function.
Government-owned
or
controlled
corporation refers to any agency organized as a
stock or non-stock corporation, vested with
functions relating to public needs whether
governmental or proprietary in nature, and
owned by the Government directly or through its
instrumentalities either wholly, or, where
applicable as in the case of stock corporations, to
the extent of at least fifty-one (51) per cent of its
capital stock: Provided, That government-owned
or controlled corporations may be further

categorized by the Department of the Budget, the

Civil Service Commission, and the Commission
on Audit for purposes of the exercise and
discharge of their respective powers, functions
and responsibilities with respect to such
corporations.
Section 3, Revised Administrative Code
What Comprises National Territory. The national territory comprises the Philippine
archipelago, with all the islands and waters
embraced therein, and all other territories over
which the Philippines has sovereignty or
jurisdiction, consisting of its terrestrial, fluvial,
and aerial domains, including its territorial sea,
the seabed, the subsoil, the insular shelves, and
other submarine areas. The waters around,
between, and connecting the islands of the
archipelago, regardless of their breadth and
dimensions, form part of the internal waters of
the Philippines.

TOBES, ADAH GWYNNE P.

Section 4, Revised Administrative Code

Territorial Subdivision of the Philippines.
- The territorial and political subdivisions of the
Philippines are the autonomous regions,
provinces, subprovinces, cities, municipalities
and barangays.
Section 4, Revised Administrative Code
Who are Citizens. - The following are the
citizens of the Philippines:
(1) Those who are citizens of the Philippines at
the time of the adoption of the Constitution;

(4) Those who are naturalized in accordance with

law.
Section 11, Revised Administrative Code
The State's Responsibility for Acts of
Agents. (1) The State shall be legally bound and
responsible only through the acts performed in
accordance with the Constitution and the laws by
its duly authorized representatives.
(2) The State shall not be bound by the mistakes
or errors of its officers or agents in the exercise
of their functions.

(2) Those whose fathers or mothers are citizens

of the Philippines;
(3) Those born before January 17, 1973, of
Filipino mothers, who elect Philippine
citizenship, unless by the act or omission they
are deemed, under the law, to have renounced it.
TOBES, ADAH GWYNNE P.