SC orders DoJ, DILG to answer petition vs new GCTA IRR

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 08:46:13 +0000

The Supreme Court has required the Department of Justice and the Department of Interior and Local Government to answer the petition that challenged the constitutionality of the new implementing rules and regulations on the expanded Good Conduct Time Allowance law under Republic Act No. 10592.

In an interview after his speech during the National Summit on the Dangerous Drugs Law at the historic landmark Manila Hotel yesterday, Chief Justice Lucas P. Bersamin said the DoJ and the DILG were given 10 days to file their comment through the Office of the Solicitor General.

Bersamin said: “Rule making is internal to the DoJ and we (the SC) do not interfere. But now if the guidelines were already issued and there is a case filed, we have to require the other party, that is the government, to comment through the Solicitor General.”
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