MALACAÑANG

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 13

AMENDING MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 3 DATED 31 JULY 1998 TO RE-SET THE DEADLINE FOR COMPLIANCE OF ALL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, GOVERNMENT-OWNED AND/OR CONTROLLED CORPORATIONS, STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTALITIES TO MAKE ALL THEIR COMPUTER-BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS YEAR 2000 (Y2K) COMPLIANT

WHEREAS, the Office of the President issued Memorandum Circular No. 3 on 31 July 1998 Directing all Government Departments, Agencies, Government‑owned and/or Controlled Corporations, State Colleges and Universities, and Other Instrumentalities to Make All their Computer-Based Information Systems Year 2000 Compliant;

WHEREAS, the deadline for compliance prescribed in said Memorandum Circular was on or before 21 December 1998;

WHEREAS, the Office of the President also issued Executive Order No. 14 on 19 August 1998 Establishing the Presidential Commission on Year 2000 Compliance;

WHEREAS, the deadline prescribed in said Executive Order for the Commission to complete the task of making computer-based systems of all government institutions Year 2000 compliant is by September 30, 1999;

WHEREAS, there is a need to synchronize the deadlines under said issuances for consistency and to allow maximum compliance by all offices concerned;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. The new deadline prescribed for all government departments, agencies, government-owned and/or controlled corporations, state colleges and universities, and other government instrumentalities to make all their computer-based information systems Y2K compliant is on or before 30 September 1999. Section 1 of Memorandum Circular No. 3 is hereby amended accordingly.

Section 2. This Memorandum Circular shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila this 25th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Eight.

(Sgd.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA

By the President:

(Sgd.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary

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