Contents of the Official Gazette


According to the Administrative Code of 1987, there shall be published in the Official Gazette:

[1] All legislative acts and resolutions of a public nature;
[2] All executive and administrative issuances of general application;
[3] Decisions or abstracts of decisions of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals, or other courts of similar rank, as may be deemed by said courts of sufficient importance to be so published;
[4] Such documents or classes of documents as may be required so to be published by law; and
[5] Such documents or classes of documents as the President shall determine from time to time to have general application or which he may authorize so to be published.

The publication of any law, resolution or other official documents in the Official Gazette shall be prima facie evidence of its authority.

The Official Gazette shall be edited in the Office of the President and published weekly in [F]ilipino or in the English language. It shall be sold and distributed by the National Printing Office which shall promptly mail copies thereof to subscribers free of postage.