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Republic Act
Approved August 24, 1956

Republic Act No. 1624

An act appropriating funds for public works

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR PUBLIC WORKS

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In plain language

Republic Act No. 1613 provides for the appropriation of funds from the General Funds, bond proceeds, and the Portworks Special Fund to finance long-range capital improvements, short-term projects, school building programs, and public works projects for the 1956-1957 fiscal year, while granting authority to parent-teacher associations and civic organizations to undertake certain school and community improvement projects.

  • Appropriation of General Fund for long-range capital improvements
  • Appropriation of General Fund for short-term projects including waterworks
  • Authorization to borrow or sell bonds for school building program
  • Appropriation of bond proceeds for public works projects
  • Apportionment of Portworks Special Fund for portworks projects
  • Delegation of contracting authority to PTAs and civic organizations
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REPUBLIC ACT No. 1624

An Act to Amend Section Twenty-One, Sub-Section (c) of Commonwealth Act Numbered One by Increasing the Regular Annual Training of Reserve Officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from Twenty-One Days to Thirty Days, and Further Amending Section Eighty-Five of Commonwealth Act Numbered One by Making Certain Additional Classes of Persons Qualified for Assignment as Instructors in the Preparatory Military Training

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

Section 1

Section twenty-one, subsection (c) of Commonwealth Act Numbered One is hereby amended to read as follows:

"The President may attach to regular units or may assign to duty with any component of the Regular Force such number or reserve officers as he may deem necessary. All periods of such duty as do not exceed thirty days annually shall be considered as regular annual training; all periods in excess of thirty days annually shall be classed as extended tours of active duty.

Section 2

Section eighty-five of Commonwealth Act Numbered One is also amended to read as follows:

"Instructors for cadets shall be assigned from qualified male teachers in schools who are members of the Reserve Force or who have satisfactorily completed any course of military instruction which would qualify a person for a commission in the Armed forces of the Philippines.

"Instructors for the Junior Reserve shall be assigned from the officers and men of the Regular Force or of the Reserve Force.

"Qualified instructors in the Preparatory Military Training may be required by the Chief of Staff to undergo annual active duty training for not more than thirty days in any calendar year. While undergoing such training they shall be furnished subsistence, suitable quarters and transportation furnishable to reserve officers on annual active duty training.

Section 3

This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 20, 1957.

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