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Republic Act
Approved June 16, 1956

Republic Act No. 1581

An act providing for the retirement of the present secretary of the house of representatives

An Act Providing for the Retirement of the Present Secretary of the House of Representatives

In plain language

An act granting the present Secretary of the House of Representatives retirement benefits, including a lump sum equal to five years of salary and a lifelong annuity thereafter, exempt from attachment or tax, with execution by the Government Service Insurance System and funding appropriated from the National Treasury.

  • Lump sum payment equal to five years of salary
  • Monthly annuity for remaining natural life
  • Exemption from attachment, levy, execution, or tax
  • Execution by Government Service Insurance System
  • Appropriation from National Treasury
Retirement
Government Service Insurance System
House of Representatives
National Treasury

REPUBLIC ACT No. 1581

An Act to Amend Section Thirty-Four of Republic Act Numbered Five Hundred Forty-Five, Entitled "An Act to Regulate the Practice of Architecture in the Philippines"

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1

Section thirty-four of Republic Act Numbered Five hundred forty-five is hereby amended to read as follows:

> "Sec. 34. Corporations cannot register. -The practice of architecture is a professional service, admission to which shall be determined upon the basis of individual, personal qualifications. No firm, company, partnership, association or corporation may be registered or licensed as such for the practice of architecture: Provided, However, That persons properly registered and licensed as architects may, among themselves or with a person or persons properly registered and licensed as civil engineers, form, and obtain registration of, a firm, partnership or association using the term "Architects" or "Architects and Engineers," but, nobody shall be a member or partner of such firm, partnership or association unless he is a duly registered and licensed architect or civil engineer, and the members who are architects shall only render work and services proper for an architect as defined in this Act, and members who are civil engineers shall also only render work and services which are proper for a civil engineer as defined under the law regulating the practice of civil engineering; individual members of such firm, partnership or association shall be responsible for their respective acts."

Section 2

This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 16, 1956.

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