Republic Act
Approved June 21, 1963More laws from 1963 →

Republic Act No. 3580

An act to further the modernization program of the general auditing office and to make funds available for this purpose.

In plain language

This Act authorizes the Auditor General to modernize the General Auditing Office (GAO) by reorganizing its Program Audit Department and expanding its audit and training staff, and appropriates funds for personnel, operating expenses, and equipment needed for the program. It also provides for future fiscal year appropriations and sets the effective date.

  • Authorization of modernization program for the GAO
  • Reorganization and expansion of the Program Audit Department and Training Staff
  • Appropriation of P364,304 for new positions, operating expenses, and equipment
  • Allocation of future fiscal year funds in General Appropriation Acts
  • Effective date of July 1, 1963
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[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3580, June 21, 1963 ]

AN ACT TO FURTHER THE MODERNIZATION PROGRAM OF THE GENERAL AUDITING OFFICE AND TO MAKE FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR THIS PURPOSE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1

The Auditor General is hereby authorized to pursue further its modernization program by reorganizing" and expanding the Program Audit Department and the Audit Methods and Training Staff of the General Auditing Office to include in their operations the program audit of local governments, development of auditing personnel, and improvement of auditing, accounting, and other fiscal procedures and practices that are the responsibilities of the General Auditing Office under existing laws, and for this purpose there is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of throe hundred sixty-four thousand three hundred four pesos, as follows:

I.-PERSONAL SERVICES
A. For new positions:
PROGRAM AUDIT DEPARTMENT
Office of the Manager
One Chief Supervising Auditor at P8,400per annumP8,400
One Auditor at P5,100per annum,5,100
One Stenographer at P3,720per annum3,720
One Driver at P2,400per annum2,400
One Janitor at P1,680per annum1,680
One Laborer at PI,680per annum1,680
Program Audit Division for Local Governments
One Chief Supervising Auditor at P8,400per annum8,400
One Auditor at P7.800per annum7,800
One Auditor at P6.888per annum6,888
One Auditor at P5,700per annum5,700
One Auditor at P5,100per annum5,100
Two Auditors at P4,200 eachper annum8,400
Two Auditing Examiners at P8,600 eachper annum7,200
Two Auditing Examiners at P3,300 eachper annum6,600
Program Audit Division I
One Chief Supervising Auditor at P8,400per annum8,400
One Auditor at P7,800per annum7,800
One Auditor at P6,888per annum6,888
One Auditor at P5,700per annum5,700
One Auditor at P5,100per annum5,100
One Auditor at P4,200per annum4,200
One Auditing Examiner at P3,600per annum3,600
One Auditing Examiner at P3,300per annum3,300
Program Audit Division II
One Chief Supervising Auditor at P8,400per annum8,400
One Auditor at P7,800per annum7,800
One Auditor at P5,700per annum5,700
One Auditor at P5,100per annum5,100
One Auditor at P4,200per annum4,200
One Auditing Examiner at P3,600per annum3,600
One Auditing Examiner at P3,300per annum3,300
Income Examination Division
Chief Supervising Auditor at P8,400per annum8,400
One Auditor at P6,888per annum6,888
One Auditor at P5,700per annum5,700
One Auditor at P5,100per annum5,100
One Auditor at P4,200per annum4,200
One Auditing Examiner at P3,600per annum3,600
One Auditing Examiner at P3,300per annum3,300
AUDIT METHODS AND TRAINING STAFF
Training Branch
Two Auditors at P6,000 eachper annum12,000
One Clerk-Typist at P2,400per annum2,400
One Duplicating Equipment Operator at P2,400per annum2,400
One Janitor at P1,680per annum1,680
One Laborer at P1,680per annum1,680
Methods and Systems Branch
Three Auditors at P6,000 eachper annum18,000
Three Auditors at P4,800 eachper annum14,400
One Clerk-Typist at P2,400per annum2,400
Research Branch
Two Auditors at 1M.800 eachper annum9,600
One Clerk-Typist at P2,400per annum2,400
Total for new positionsP266,304
B. Government share in employees' life and retirement insurance premiums26,000
Total for Personal ServicesP292,304
II.-MAINTENANCE AND OTHER OPERATING EXPENSES
Travel expensesP30,000
Rentals12,000
Sundries10,000
Total for Maintenance and other Operating ExpensesP52,000
III.-FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
Equipment OutlayP20,000
IV.-SUMMARY
Total for personal servicesP292,304
Total for maintenance and other operating expenses52,000
Total for furniture and equipment20,000
Total AppropriationP364,304

Section 2

The sum necessary for the succeeding fiscal years shall be included in the appropriations for the General Auditing Office in the annual General Appropriation Acts.

Section 3

This Act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundred sixty-three.

Approved, June 21, 1963.

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