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B.

Kinds of Administrative Law

1. Statutes setting up administrative authorities;


2. Body of doctrines and decisions dealing with the creation, operation, and effect
of determinations and regulations of such administrative authorities;
3. Rules, regulations, or orders of such administrative authorities in pursuance of
the purposes, for which administrative authorities were created or endowed; and
e.g. Omnibus Rules Implementing the Labor Code, circulars of Central Monetary
Authority.
4. Determinations, decisions, and orders of such administrative authorities in the
settlement of controversies arising in their particular field. e.g. Awards of NLRC
with respect to money claims of employees. (Nachura, supra at 493)

C. Scope of Administrative Law

Broadly conceived, administrative law covers the following:

(1) the law which fixes the administrative organization and structure of the government; (2) the
law, the execution or enforcement of which is entrusted to administrative authorities; (3) the
law which governs public officers including their competence (to act), rights, duties, liabilities,
election, etc.; (4) the law which creates administrative agencies, defines their powers and
functions, prescribes their procedures, including the adjudication or settlement by them of
contested matters involving private interests; (5) the law which provides the remedies,
administrative or judicial, available to those aggrieved by administrative actions or decisions;
(6) the law which governs judicial review of, or relief against, administrative actions or
decisions; (7) the rules, regulations, orders and decisions (including presidential proclamations)
made by administrative authorities dealing with the interpretation and enforcement of the laws
entrusted to their administration; and (8) the body of judicial decisions and doctrines dealing
with any of the above.

D. Sources of Administrative Law

Law that controls administrative authorities

-Constitution, statutes, judicial decisions, Executive Orders, Administrative Orders, etc

Law made by the administrative authorities

-General regulations and particular determinations; constitute under delegations of power


embodied in statutory administrative law, and imposing and constantly expanding body of law.

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