Section 4Sec./Art. 4

Agencies and Offices Transferred to the Autonomous Region. - Upon the election of the officials of the Regional Government, as mandated by this Organic Act, the line agencies and offices of the central government or national government dealing with local government, social services, science and technology, labor, natural resources, and tourism, including their personnel, equipment, properties, and budgets, shall be immediately placed under the control and supervision of the Regional Government.

Other central government or national government offices and agencies in the autonomous region which are not excluded under Section 3, Article IV of this Organic Act, together with their personnel, equipment, properties, and budgets, shall be placed under the control and supervision of the Regional Government pursuant to a schedule prescribed by the oversight committee mentioned in Section 3 of this Article. The transfer of these offices and agencies and their personnel, equipment, properties, and budgets shall be accomplished within six (6) years from the re-organization of the Regional Government.

The central government or national government shall continue to provide such levels of expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Regional Government to carry out the functions devolved under this Organic Act. The annual budgetary support shall, as soon as practicable, terminate for the line agencies or offices devolved to the Regional Government.