P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 283m
(a) The Secretary shall prescribe and promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to implement §§ 283—283p of this title. All rules and regulations prescribed and promulgated by the Secretary by virtue of the powers conferred herein, shall have the force of law and shall not be subject to the provisions of Act 112 of June 30, 1957, known as the Rules and Regulations Act of 1958.
(b) The rules and regulations prescribed and promulgated by the Secretary shall not apply to the legislative and judicial dependencies in matters pertaining to the exactitude, propriety, correctness, necessity and legality of the transactions. Said dependencies shall establish the regulations needed for these purposes. They shall nevertheless be applicable to all matters not in conflict with the independence of action [that] §§ 283—283p of this title provide for the legislative and judicial dependencies. None of the provisions herein set forth shall apply to the legislative bodies, as this term is defined in §§ 283—283p of this title, which shall be solely governed by the rules and regulations approved and adopted by these.
(c) The regulations, proceedings, systems, circular letters and memoranda issued pursuant to the laws and sections of the Political Code which are repealed by this act, provided they are not in conflict with any of the provisions of §§ 283—283p of this title, shall continue in force until the substitutes therefor are issued.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 230, Part 2, p. 183, § 14; June 11, 2004, No. 140, § 11.