Executive Order No. 460 (1997)

Section 1. The Special Committee on Naturalization is hereby reactivated with jurisdiction and authority to receive, consider, and evaluate petitions for naturalization of deserving aliens and, thereafter, to submit recommendation thereon to the President of the Philippines for approval or procedural, as provided for in Letter of Instructions No. 270 as amended by Letters of Instructions Nos. 278, 283, 292 and 491 as well as in Presidential Decrees Nos. 836 and 1379.

Section 2. The Solicitor General, as Chairman of the Special Committee on Naturalization, is hereby authorized to fix the amount of fees for the application form, the docketing thereof, the oathtaking and such other fees necessary for the processing of said application/petition.

Section 3. The Solicitor General, as Chairman of the Special Committee on Naturalization, shall likewise have the authority to fix the Honoraria, allowances, and other incidental expenses of the Chairman, Members, and Secretary of the Committee as well as of its staff members, which are necessary and appurtenant to the functions and duties of the Special Committee on Naturalization.

Section 4. All laws, decrees, executive orders, administrative orders, proclamations, rules and regulations, or parts thereof that are in conflict with the Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

This Executive Order shall take effect immediately

Section 5. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 31st day of December, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-seven.

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES

Executive Secretary

Footnote

* See Executive Order No. 482 amending this Executive Order, p. 331.