AG: SOE remains in effect until June 17

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has sought to cor­rect what it de­scribed as mis­in­for­ma­tion cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia about the du­ra­tion of the cur­rent State of Pub­lic Emer­gency (SOE).

In a state­ment, the of­fice said the SOE re­mains in ef­fect un­til mid­night on June 17, 2026, and not June 3, 2026, as some so­cial me­dia posts have claimed.

The At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Of­fice out­lined the con­sti­tu­tion­al process gov­ern­ing the emer­gency mea­sures and ex­plained that the SOE was first de­clared by the Pres­i­dent through Le­gal No­tice No. 39 of 2026 with ef­fect from March 3, 2026.

Un­der Sec­tion 9(2) of the Con­sti­tu­tion, the procla­ma­tion ini­tial­ly re­mained in force for 15 days and would have ex­pired at mid­night on March 17, 2026.

How­ev­er, the of­fice said the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives ap­proved an ex­ten­sion of the procla­ma­tion on March 13, 2026.

It said the ex­ten­sion was grant­ed in ac­cor­dance with Sec­tion 10(1) of the Con­sti­tu­tion through a sim­ple ma­jor­i­ty res­o­lu­tion of the House.

The three-month ex­ten­sion took ef­fect from March 18, 2026, and will end at mid­night on June 17, 2026.

The At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Of­fice is­sued the clar­i­fi­ca­tion amid re­ports on so­cial me­dia sug­gest­ing the emer­gency mea­sures were due to ex­pire on June 3