MALACAÑANG

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 15

PROVIDING FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE MINISTRIES INTO DEPARTMENTS AND THE CORRESPONDING CHANGE IN THE TITLES OF KEY POSITIONS THEREOF.

With the adoption of the 1986 Constitution, all ministries should henceforth be called departments.

Ministers shall be described as Secretaries; Deputy Ministers as Undersecretaries; and Assistant Ministers/Secretaries as Assistant Secretaries.

It is suggested that existing stationeries or other papers bearing the letterhead or description of ministries or ministers should be used until the supplies are exhausted. Whenever convenient, typewritten corrections can simply be made thereon.

Done in the City of Manila, this 11th day of February in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven

(Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO
President of the Philippines

By the President

(Sgd.) JOKER P. ARROYO

Executive Secretary

Source: Malacañang Records Office

Office of the President of the Philippines. (1987). [Administrative Order Nos. : 1 – 150]. Manila : Malacañang Records Office.