ACT NO. 2657 AN ACT CONSISTING AN ADMINISTRATIVE CODE Organization, Powers, and General Administration of Philippine Government BOOK  I TITLE  I Matter of General Nature Title of Act PRELIMINARY  CHAPTER SECTION  1 . Title of Act . — This Act shall be known as the Administrative Code. The contents may be cited by the numbered sections, and in case of any portion bearing a special title also by such title.  ARTICLE  I Definitions SECTION  2 . Words and Phrases Defined. — The following expressions shall be taken in the sense hereinbelow indicated, except as a different meaning for the word or phrase in question may be given in a particular statute or is plainly to be collected from th e context or connection where the term is used: "The Government of the Philippine Islands" is a term which refers to the corporate governmental entity through which the functions of government are exercised through-out the Philippine Islands, including, save as the contrary appears from the context, the  various arms through which political authority is made effective in said Islands, whether pertaining to the central Government or to the provincial or municipal branches or other form of local government. "Insular Government" refers to the central Government as distinguished from the different forms of local government. "Philippine Government" refers to the Government of the Philippine Islands. Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 1