This is ARTICLE 6, SECTION 25, SUBSECTION 2 of the 1987 Phil. Constitution, 2) No provision or enactment shall be embraced in the general appropriations bill unless it relates specifically to some particular appropriation therein. Any such provision or enactment shall be limited in its operation to the appropriation to which it relates. This clearly Dictates that the GAA or the general appropriations bill shall contain provisions or enactments that SPECIFICALLY RELATES to SOME PARTICULAR APPROPRIATION therein... And such provision or enactment SHALL BE LIMITED in its operation TO THE APPROPRIATION TO WHICH IT RELATES. Malinaw na Malinaw YAN... The enactment or provision and the appropriation cannot be untangled or separated from each other. This means SAVINGS CAN ONLY BE DECLARED UPON EXPIRY OF the ENACTMENT OR PROVISION, at the end of the year... If you declare SAVINGS before the provision or enactment expires, you severe or remove the provision or enactment from the appropriation PREMATURELY. Its NOT SAVINGS YET as the provision or enactment is still valid and subsisting, it is MISAPPLICATION OF EXISTING FUNDS allotted for a SPECIFIC PROVISION OR ENACTMENT (Project) in the GAA -which is a LAW with an EXPIRY PERIOD. In Order to declare savings before the expiry of the GAA, an AMENDMENT TO THE GAA must be PASSED, just like changing other laws. Thus DAF is Unconstitutional. And Ignorance of the law excuses no one from compliance thereto.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:23:05 +0000