REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7172 - AN ACT TO REPEAL LETTER OF INSTRUCTION NO. 860 DATED MAY 16, 1979, DIRECTING THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE TO TAKE OVER THE MANAGEMENT, CONTROL AND OPERATION OF THE PHILIPPINE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS ASSOCIATION

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7172, January 10, 1992 ]

AN ACT TO REPEAL LETTER OF INSTRUCTION NO. 860 DATED MAY 16, 1979, DIRECTING THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE TO TAKE OVER THE MANAGEMENT, CONTROL AND OPERATION OF THE PHILIPPINE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS ASSOCIATION

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Letter of Instruction No. 860 dated May 16, 1979 directing the Minister of Education and Culture to take over the management, control and operation of the Philippine Public School Teachers Association is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. Full management, control and operation of the affairs and funds of the Philippine Public School Teachers Association shall hereafter vest in the officers and members of the Association.

SEC. 3. All acts, presidential decrees, executive orders and presidential issuances inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,

JOVITO R. SALONGA RAMON V. MITRA

President of the Senate Speaker of the House of Representatives

This bill which was a consolidation of Senate Bill No. 231 and House Bill No. 33838 was finally passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on October 22, 1991 and November 20, 1991, respectively.

EDWIN P. ACOBA CAMILO L. SABIO

Secretary of the Senate Secretary General House of Representatives

Approved: January 10, 1992

CORAZON C. AQUINO President of the Philippines