EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHIUPPINES 
Third Regular Session
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SENATE 
S. No. 2479
(In substitution of Senate Bill Nos. 788 and 1885)
FILED
HOB
Prepared and submitted jointly by the Committees on Economic Affairs and Finance 
with Senators Hontiveros, Marcos, Angara, and Revilla, Jr., as authors thereof
AN ACT INSTITUTIONALIZING A RESULTS-BASED NATIONAL EVALUATION 
POLICY
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembied:
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SECTION 1. Title. This Act shall be known as the "Results-Based National
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Evaluation Policy (RBNEP) Act."
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SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is the policy of the State to ensure the
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relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, and impact of laws, policies, strategies,
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and programs, activities, and projects (PAPs) of the government, through the regular
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conduct and use of credible evaluations of its interventions to achieve its inclusive
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development and poverty reduction goals.
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SECTION 3. Policy Objectives. The RBNEP intends to achieve the following
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objectives:
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a) Facilitate the institutionalization of an integrated evaluation system of 
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Ensure the timely provision to government decisionmakers of credible 
and useful evaluations In support of results-based formulation, 
planning, budgeting, implementation, and oversight of government 
interventions;
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Ensure the systematic utilization of evaluation findings and 
recommendations for the continuous improvement of government 
interventions; and
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Promote greater transparency and accountability for results of 
government departments, agencies, and other instrumentalities.
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SECTION 4. Definition of Terms. The terms used in this Act are defined as
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follows:
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a) 
Government Interventions refer to the laws, policies, strategies, 
and programs, activities, and projects (PAPs) of the government 
departments, agencies, and other instrumentalities.
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Results refer to changes in a state or condition due to a government 
intervention. There are three types of such changes-outputs, 
outcomes, and impacts—which can be intended or unintended, 
positive and/or negative.
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Evaluation refers to the systematic and impartial assessment of the 
results of government interventions. It provides credible information 
on the efficiency, effectiveness, relevance, coherence, impact, and 
sustainability of government interventions, enabling the incorporation 
of lessons learned into the decision-making process.
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Monitoring refers to a continuous and systematic collection of data 
on key results indicators to track progress in achieving the objectives 
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e) 
Outputs refer to the goods and services delivered to the external 
stakeholders of government departments, agencies and other 
instrumentalities implementing government interventions.
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Outcomes refer to the short-term and medium-term benefits to 
clients, beneficiaries, and stakeholders, as a result of the outputs of 
government interventions.
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Impacts are higher-level sectoral and societal benefits and other 
consequences of government interventions. Impacts take place long 
after target individuals, groups, systems or organizations have 
experienced the outputs and outcomes of government interventions.
SECTION 5. Coverage. The RBNEP shall apply to the following:
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All departments, agencies, and other instrumentalities of the national 
government, including state universities and colleges (SUCs), 
constitutional commissions, and government-owned and/ or 
controlled corporations (GOCCs); and legislative and judicial branches 
of the government;
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All government interventions formulated and implemented by tiie 
above entities including those funded by Official Development 
Assistance (ODA) and those contracted to and executed by local 
government units (LGUs), private sector and civil society 
organizations.
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SECTION 6. Guiding Principles for Evaluation. The credibility, quality, and
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usefulness of evaluation shall be ensured through adherence to the following principles:
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a) Utility. In commissioning or conducting an evaluation, there shall be 
a clear intention to use the evaluation findings and recommendations 
for results-based formulation, planning, budgeting, implementation, 
and oversight of government interventions. The design and timing of


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evaluations shall address the information needs of government 
decision-makers.
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Applying evaluation criteria. Evaluations shall assess and report 
on the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, impact and 
sustainability of government interventions in accordance with 
internationally accepted evaluation criteria. The use of these criteria 
shall be responsive to the needs of decision-makers, and to the 
purpose and context of evaluation.
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Observing evaluation standards. Evaluation shall be consistent 
with internationally accepted evaluation norms, standards and best 
practices, including die use of evaiuation designs and methodologies 
capable of attributing observed outputs, outcomes and impacts to 
government interventions being evaluated. Evaluation reference 
groups and other mechanisms shali be established and strengthened 
to ensure the generation of credible, quality and usefui evaluations.
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Independence and Impartiality. The independence of the 
evaluation units of departments, agencies and other instrumentalities 
shail be ensured at ali times. Those who design, manage, and conduct 
evaluations shall be shielded from any undue influence that will 
undermine the credibility of evaluations. They shall be provided with 
adequate resources to produce credible, high-quality and useful 
evaluation. Evaluation shall be conducted with the highest degree of 
impartiality. In case third-party evaluators are commissioned to ensure 
impartial evaluation, they shall be selected from a wide and diversified 
pool according to objective criteria.
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Evaluation Competencies. Evaluations shall be conducted by 
organizations and individuals having the required knowledge, skills, 
and other evaluation competencies. Capacity-building initiatives shall 
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organizations and individuals who commission, design, manage, 
conduct, communicate and use evaluations.
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Ethics. Individuals and organizations who commission, manage, 
design, and conduct evaluations shall observe accepted ethical 
standards including integrity, fairness, gender sensitivity, respect for 
culture and beliefs, and protection of the rights of evaluation 
participants.
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Transparency. The implementation of RBNEP shall promote 
transparency crucial to ensuring credible, high-quality and useful 
evaluations. To the greatest extent possible, all information required 
for evaluation shall be made available to evaluators, subject to existing 
laws and regulations governing the confidentiality and nondisclosure 
of information.
Those who commission or manage evaluation shall ensure the 
selection of evaluators with no conflict of interest with the evaluation 
to be undertaken. Potential evaluators of government interventions 
shall disclose possible conflict of interest that may undermine tiie 
credibility of evaluation. They shall disclose the identities of the 
members of the evaluation team.
Evaluators shall disclose to government decision-makers and 
other stakeholders the purpose, design, implementation, results and 
utilization, including possible constraints or limitations of an 
evaluation. . Complete evaluation reports shall be made easily 
accessible to government decision-makers, relevant stakeholders, and 
the public.
h) Accountability- Entities responsible for the commissioning, 
managing and conducting evaluations shall ensure that evaluations are 
credible, quality, useful and timely. Key findings and recommendations 
of completed evaluations shall be communicated clearly by the same 
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covered entities of the RBNEP shall incorporate the use of evaluations 
in results-based formulation, planning, budgeting, implementation, 
and oversight of government interventions.
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SECTION 7. Establishment of a National Evaluation Council. A National
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Evaluation Council (NEC) is hereby estabiished to oversee the implementation of the
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RBNEP.
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SECTION 8. Composition of the National Evaluation Council. The NEC
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shall have the following seven (7) voting members:
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Secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority 
(NEDA), or his/her authorized representative, as Chairperson. The 
representative of the NEDA Secretary shall be an Undersecretary in 
charge of monitoring and evaluation in NEDA;
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Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), or 
his/her authorized representative, as co-chairperson. The 
representative of the DBM Secretary shall at least be an Assistant 
Secretary in charge of monitoring and evaluation in the DBM;
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Secretary of the Philippine Senate or his/her authorized representative 
who shall at least be a career Director in charge of policy, planning, 
research and/or evaluation in the Senate;
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Secretary General of the House of Representatives or his/her duly 
authorized representative who shall at least be a Career Director In 
charge of policy, planning, research and/or evaluation in the House of 
Representatives;
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Court Administrator of the Supreme Court or his/her authorized 
representative who shall at least be a career Director in charge of 
policy, planning and /or performance monitoring and evaluation;


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f) Chairperson of the Commission on Audit (COA) or his/her authorized
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representative who shall at least be a career Director in charge of
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policy, planning and /or performance monitoring and evaluation; and
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g) Head of the Presidential Management Staff or his/her authorized
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representative who shall at least be a career Director in charge of
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policy, planning and /or performance monitoring and evaluation.
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The NEC shall meet at least once every quarter or as often as necessary. To
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ensure that the NEC is guided by inputs of evaluation experts, the following shall attend
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the NEC meetings as non-voting member:
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a) The head of the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS)
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or his/her duly authorized representative who shall at least be a career
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Director in charge of policy, planning, and/or performance monitoring
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and evaluation;
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b) The head of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) or his/her duly
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authorized representative who shall at least be a career Director in
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charge of policy, planning, and/or performance monitoring and
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evaluation; and
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c) Representative from the voluntary organizations for professional
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evaluation (VOPES).
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SECTION 9. Functions of the National Evaluation Council. The NEC shall
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perform the following functions to operationalize the RBNEP:
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Provide overall policy direction on the implementation of the RBNEP;
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Approve the basic guidelines for the conduct of evaluation;
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Review and approve the National Evaluation Strategy (NES) and 
ensure its impiementabon;
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Review, approve, and ensure the implementation of, the costed 
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Provide oversight on the conduct of evaluation by covered entities and 
their management response to evaluation recommendations; ;
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Issue the basic guidelines on the formation and operation of lEUs of 
covered entities; and
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Approve and implement a program to strengthen the evaluation 
capacity of lEUs and government decision-makers.
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SECTION 10. NEC Secretariat and its Functions. The NEC Secretariat shall
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be established within the NEDA. The existing staffing complement of the NEDA shall be
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augmented to undertake the functions of the NEC Secretariat. The NEC Secretariat shall:
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Formulate and recommend basic guidelines for the conduct of 
evaluation;
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Prepare the National Evaluation Strategy ;
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Review and make recommendations on the costed evaluation agenda 
of covered entities;
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Monitor the implementation of the entities' evaluation agenda and their 
management response to evaluation recommendation in support of the 
oversight function of the NEC;
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Formulate the basic guidelines on the formation and operation of lEUs 
of entities covered;
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Provide quality assurance of evaluations conducted by covered 
entities;
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Facilitate the dissemination to decision-makers of key findings, lessons 
learned, and recommendations from completed evaluations;
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Maintain a public website containing the evaluation plans and reports 
of covered entities;
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Develop a program to strengthen the evaluation capacity of covered 
entities and government decisionmakers;
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Prepare and submit to the DBM the annual funding requirement of the 
program to strengthen the evaluation capacity of the government; and
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k) Carry out other directives of the NEC, as necessary.
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SECTION 11. National Evaluation Strategy. The National Evaiuation Strategy
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(NES) shall identify the priority areas for evaluation in line with the Philippine
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Development Plan. It shall guide the formulation of evaluation agenda of the covered
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entities.
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SECTION 12. Organization of Independent Evaluation Units (lEUs) of
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Covered Entities. Each covered entity shall organize an lEU that shall report directly
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to the head of the entity. The head of the entity shall ensure that the lEU can perform
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its evaluation functions independently and objectively.
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SECTION 13. Functions oflEUs. The lEUs shall:
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a) Coordinate the formulation and approval of the costed evaluation
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agenda of the covered entity;
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b) Manage or conduct evaluations identified in the costed evaluation
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agenda;
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c) Submit evaiuation plans and final evaluation reports to the entity's
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head and to the NEC Secretariat in accordance with prescribed
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guidelines;
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d) Disseminate the key findings and recommendations of completed
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evaluations to the head of the entity, decision-makers and other
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stakeholders;
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e) Facilitate the formulation of the management response to key findings
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and recommendations from the completed evaluations;
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f) Monitor the entity's progress in implementing the management
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response;
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h) Provide inputs to results-based formulation, planning, budgeting, and
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implementation within the entity.
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SECTION 14. Formulation of the Costed Evaluation Agenda. Each covered
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entity shall formulate a six-year costed evaluation agenda aligned with Uie NES. The head
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of entity shall submit the costed evaluation agenda to the NEC.
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SECTION 15. Utilization of Evaluation Findings and Recommendations.
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The head of a covered entity shall incorporate the use of evaluations in results-based
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formulation, planning, budgeting, implementation, and oversight of government
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interventions. He or she shall submit to the NEC the management response to evaluation
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recommendations, and ensure its implementation.
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SECTION 16. Funding for the Implementation of the RBNEP. The funding
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requirement for the implementation of the RBNEP, including the budget for the conduct
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of evaluation indicated in the costed evaluation agenda, NEC Secretariat, and lEUs shall
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be included in the General Appropriations Act (GAA).
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SECTION 17. Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). The NEDA, in
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consultation with the prospective members of NEC, shall promulgate the IRR to
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operationalize the guiding principles of the RBNEP and to implement its specific provisions
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within 60 days upon the approval of this Act.
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SECTION 18. Amendment. This Act shall be evaluated three years after its
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initial implementation. The results of such evaluation shall guide the proposed
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amendments of this Act and its IRR.
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SECTION 19. Repealing Clause. All laws, decrees, orders, rules and
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regulations or other issuances or parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act
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are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
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SECTION 20. Separability Clause. If any portion or provision of this Act is
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declared unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act or any provision not affected thereby
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shall remain in force and effect.
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SECTION. 22. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect after fifteen (15) days
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following the completion of its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of
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general circulation in the Philippines.
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Approved,
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