Creation of the Undersecretary of Foreign Relations
Congreso Nacional
- Decree: 266-2013
- Published: August 6, 2015
- Issuing body: Congreso Nacional
- Gazette: 33,801
- Category: Administrative
Summary
This decree creates a new Undersecretary of Consular and Migration Affairs within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The undersecretary will be responsible for coordinating and delivering consular services, consular protection, and migration policies for Honduras. It benefits Honduran citizens who need consular services and migration procedures.
Considerations
Whereas the President of the Republic has under his charge the supreme direction and coordination of the Centralized and Decentralized Public Administration, who in the exercise of his functions may act by himself or in Council of Ministers.
Whereas the National Congress through Legislative Decree No. 266-2013, dated December 16, 2013, approved the Law to Optimize Public Administration, improve services to Citizens and Strengthen Transparency in Government, which has as its purpose, among others, the streamlining of the mechanisms of centralized administration for effective provision of public services.
Whereas the State Department for the Offices of Foreign Relations and International Cooperation requires an administrative structure adapted to the competencies established in Article 29, numeral 14 of the aforementioned Law, for which reason it is necessary to create new internal dependencies.
Whereas in accordance with what is established in Article 14, numeral 1 of the General Law of Public Administration, it is the faculty of the President of the Republic in Council of State Secretaries to determine the competence of the Offices by the Secretariats and to create the internal dependencies that may be necessary for proper administration.
Articles
This Decree shall enter into force as of the day of its publication in the Official Gazette "LA GACETA". Done in the city of Tegucigalpa, municipality of the Central District, in the Session Hall of the National Congress, on the twenty-first day of the month of May of two thousand fifteen. ANTONIO CÉSAR RIVERA CALLEJAS PRESIDENT MARIO ALONSO PÉREZ LÓPEZ SECRETARY SARA ISMELA MEDINA GALO SECRETARY To the Executive Branch. Therefore: Execute. Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., June 29, 2015. JUAN ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ ALVARADO PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC THE SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE, GOVERNANCE AND DECENTRALIZATION. RIGOBERTO CHANG CASTILLO Executive Branch EXECUTIVE DECREE NUMBER PCM-038-2015 THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC IN COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, CONSIDERING: That the President of the Republic is responsible for the supreme direction and coordination of the Centralized and Decentralized Public Administration, who in the exercise of his functions, may act by himself or in Council of Ministers. CONSIDERING: That the National Congress through Legislative Decree No. 266-2013, dated December 16, 2013, approved the Law to Optimize Public Administration, improve services to the Citizenry and Strengthening of Transparency in Government, which has as its purpose, among others, the streamlining of the mechanisms of centralized administration for an effective provision of public services. CONSIDERING: That the Secretariat of State in the Offices of Foreign Relations and International Cooperation, requires an administrative structure adapted to the competencies established in Article 29 numeral 14 of the aforementioned Law, for which it is necessary to create new internal departments. CONSIDERING: That in accordance with the provisions of Article 14 numeral 1 of the General Law of Public Administration, it is the faculty of the President of the Republic in Council of Secretaries of State to determine the competence of the Offices by the Secretariats and to create the internal departments that may be necessary for good administration. THEREFORE, In the use of the faculties with which he is vested and in application of the articles: 245 numerals 1) and 11), 248, 252, and 255 of the Constitution of the Republic; 4, 11, 14 numeral 1), 22 numeral 3), 116, 117 and 119 of the General Law of Public Administration; 3, 23, 24, 25 and 26 of the Administrative Procedure Law; and; 7, 8, 9 numerals 4) and 7), 10, 11, and 13; of the Regulation on Organization, Operation and Competencies of the Executive Branch; Law for the Protection of Honduran Migrants and their Families created by Decree No. 106-2013 and its Regulation created by Decree No. 263-2011 of May 21, 2013 in the Official Gazette La Gaceta No. 33,144. IT IS DECREED:
The Subsecretariat of State is created, dependent on the Secretariat of State in the Offices of Foreign Relations and International Cooperation, which shall have under its charge consular and migratory matters.
The Subsecretariat of State for Consular and Migratory Affairs shall assume responsibility for Consular Services and Acts of Consular Protection, and shall have the following functions: To coordinate, promote, harmonize and socialize the policies established in the laws applicable to Consular and Migratory Matters and delegated by the Secretary of State for Foreign Relations and International Cooperation.
To create the other internal departments that, at the discretion of the head of the Subsecretariat, are necessary to fully comply with the competencies assigned to it.
The Secretariat of State in the Office of Finance is instructed to allocate the necessary budget for the creation and operation of the Subsecretariat of State referred to in Article 01 of this Executive Decree.
This Executive Decree shall enter into force as of its publication in the Official Gazette "La Gaceta". Done at Presidential House, Tegucigalpa, municipality of the Central District, on the fifth (05) day of the month of August of the year two thousand fifteen (2015). COMMUNICATE AND PUBLISH. JUAN ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ ALVARADO CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC JORGE RAMÓN HERNÁNDEZ ALCERRO GENERAL COORDINATOR SECRETARY OF GOVERNMENT ARTURO CORRALES ÁLVAREZ SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION RICARDO CARDONA SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL INCLUSION ROBERTO ANTONIO ORDÓÑEZ SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND PUBLIC SERVICES SALVADOR VALERIANO P. SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF SECURITY, BY LAW SAMUEL REYES SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF DEFENSE YOLANI BATRES CRUZ SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF HEALTH MARLON ESCOTO SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION CARLOS ALBERTO MADERO ERAZO SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY JACOBO PAZ BODDEN SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK ELVIS RODAS SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF NATURAL RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT AND MINES, BY LAW ROCIO TABORA SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF FINANCE, BY LAW
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