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Executive Orders

Extending Franking Privilege To the Supreme Court

Executive Order No. 207

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 207 July 1, 1987

EXTENDING FRANKING PRIVILEGE TO THE SUPREME COURT

WHEREAS, it is essential to provide the Supreme Court with all the necessary facilities to enable it to discharge its duties and functions promptly and with dispatch;

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court disburses a sizeable amount of its budgetary appropriation for postage stamps for mailing its officials communications and papers;

WHEREAS, in the interest of expediting the sending of the Court's notices which cannot all be done by personal service due to the limited number of its process servers and facilities, it is necessary to extend franking privilege to the Supreme Court, in the same manner that the Court of Appeals and all other lower courts have been granted franking privilege;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order:

Sec. 1. The Supreme Court may transmit thru ordinary mail and/or registered mail with return card, free of charge all...

Summary of Executive Order No. 207

Extending Franking Privilege to the Supreme Court

- The Supreme Court is granted the franking privilege to enable it to discharge its duties and functions promptly and with dispatch. (Section 1)
- The Supreme Court can transmit official communications and papers directly connected with judicial proceedings and administrative supervision over lower courts and personnel, through ordinary mail and/or registered mail with return card, free of charge. (Section 1)
- The envelope or wrapper of the privileged mail matter shall bear on the left upper corner "Supreme Court" together with its address, and on the right upper corner, the words "Private or unauthorized use to avoid payment of postage is penalized by fine or imprisonment or both." (Section 1)
- The implementing rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Transportation and Communications for the franking privilege of the Court of Appeals and all other lower courts shall likewise apply to the franking privilege granted to the Supreme Court. (Section 2)
- Any person who uses the privilege granted for private or unauthorized purposes shall be punished by a fine of five hundred pesos or imprisonment of not more than three years, or both, at the discretion of the Court. (Section 2)

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