ARTICLE V

POWERS OF GOVERNMENT

Section 1. Powers of the National Government. – All powers, functions and responsibilities not granted by the Constitution or by national law to the Bangsamoro Government shall be vested in the National Government.

Section 2. Powers of the Bangsamoro Government. – Subject to Section 20, Article X of the Constitution and this Organic Law, the Bangsamoro Government shall exercise its authority over the following matters without prejudice to the general supervision of the President of the Republic of the Philippines:

(a) Administration of justice;

(b) Administrative organization;

(c) Agriculture, livestock, and food security;

(d) Ancestral domain and natural resources;

(e) Barter trade and countertrade;

(f) Budgeting;

(g) Business name registration;

(h) Cadastral land survey;

(i) Civil service;

(j) Classification of public lands;

(k) Cooperatives and social entrepreneurship;

(l) Creation, division, merger, abolition or alteration of boundaries of municipalities and barangays;

(m) Creation of government-owned or controlled corporations and pioneer firms;

(n) Creation of sources of revenues;

(o) Cultural exchange, and economic and technical cooperation;

(p) Culture and language;

(q) Customary laws;

(r) Development programs and laws for women, labor, the youth, the elderly, the differently-abled , and indigenous peoples;

(s) Disaster risk reduction and management;

(t) Ecological solid waste management ad pollution control;

(u) Economic zones, industrial centers, and free ports;

(v) Education and skills training;

(w) Eminent domain;

(x) Environment, parks, forest management, wildlife, and nature reserves conservation;

(y) Fishery, marine, and aquatic resources;

(z) Grants and donations;

(aa) Hajj and Umrah;

(bb) Health;

(cc) Housing and human settlements;

(dd) Humanitarian service and institutions;

(ee) Human rights;

(ff) Indigenous peoples’ rights;

(gg) Inland waters;

(hh) Inland waterways for navigation;

(ii) Islamic banking and finance;

(jj) Labor, employment, and occupation;

(kk) Libraries and museums, and historical, cultural and archaeological sites;

(ll) Loans, credits and other forms of indebtedness;

(mm) Mechanisms for consultations for women and marginalized sectors;

(nn) People;s organizations;

(oo) Power sector investements;

(pp) Public utilities’ operations;

(qq) Public works and infrastructure;

(rr) Quarantine regulations;

(ss) Registration of births, marriages, and deaths, copies to be furnished the Philippine Statistics Authority;

(tt) Regulation of the manufacture and distribution of food, drinks, drugs, and tobacco;

(uu) Science and technology, research councils and scholarship programs;

(vv) Social services, social welfare, and charities;

(ww) Sports and recreation;

(xx) Technical cooperation for human resources development;

(yy) Tourism development;

(zz) Trade and Industry;

(aaa) Urban and rural planning development;

(bbb) Urban land reform and land use; and

(ccc) Water supply and services, flood control, and irrigation systems.

Section 3. General Welfare. The Bangsamoro Government shall exercise the power expressly granted, those necessarily implied therefrom, as well as powers necessary, appropriate, or incidental for its efficient and effective governance and those which are essential to the promotion of general welfare. Within its territorial jurisdiction, the Bangsamoro Government shall ensure and support, among other things, the preservation and enrichment of culture, promote health and safety, enhance the right of the people to a balanced ecology, encourage and support the development of appropriate and self-reliant scientific and technological capabilities, improve public morals, enhance economic prosperity and social justice, promote full employment among its residents, maintain peace and order, and preserve the comfort and convenience of its inhabitants.