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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3099 - AN ACT
CREATING THE BUREAU OF FIBER INSPECTION SERVICE |
Section 1. There is
hereby created under the Department of Commerce and Industry an Office
to be known as the Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service.
Sec. 2. The Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service shall have a head, who shall be known as the Director of Fiber Inspection Service to be appointed by the President with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the Congress and shall receive a minimum entrance salary provided for under WAPCO salary range 58. The Director should have, at least, twenty years of service in the actual fiber inspection work and should, at least, have passed the civil service examination for fiber inspector (equivalent to First Grade). There shall be in the said Bureau such technical personnel and other employees to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce and Industry, as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act: Provided, however, That the present personnel of the Fiber Inspection Service doing fiber inspection work and/or related matters shall be retained in the service and transferred, together with the present appropriations, apparatus, equipment, records and other properties thereof to the Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service. Sec. 3. The Director of the Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service shall, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Industry, organize its personnel in such divisions or sections as will insure efficiency: Provided, however, That there shall at least be divisions of inspections, export and license and general service. Sec. 4. The Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service shall
have the following powers, duties and functions: Sec. 5. Grading, Baling and Inspection of Fibers. — All fibers of which the officials standards shall have been established as hereinabove contemplated shall be graded, baled, inspected, approved, and certified as in this law provided. No fiber within the purview of this Act shall be exported from the Philippines in any quantity without first being graded, baled, inspected and certified as already stated. Sec. 6. Inspection of Premises of Grading Establishments. — The fiber inspector or other person acting under his authority shall have free access to the grading and baling sheds, and also to the warehouses where the bales are stored of any grading establishment within his jurisdiction to make an inspection for the purpose of satisfying himself to the propriety of the methods used therein. He shall also see that the approved set of official standards is always carefully preserved and renewed within specified period. Sec. 7. Inspection Fees. — There shall be levied and collected, subject to the approval of the President of the Philippines, an inspection fee by the Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service or by its authorized agent with the approval of the President, an amount not more than two pesos nor less than ten centavos for each bale of fiber inspected and stamped, whether approved or rejected. Such fees shall be paid by the owner of the bale to whom a receipt shall be issued. Subject to the approval of the President, the inspection fees may be changed at any time by the Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service within the higher and lower limits fixed in this section and the Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service may also fix different rates of fees for the different grades of abaca, or other Philippine fibers, provided that the fees shall be uniform for each grade: Provided, however, That the Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service shall give general notice in writing of its intention to change the amount of the inspection fees not less than two months previous to the date on which such new fees shall take effect. Sec. 8. Refund of Inspection Fees upon Fibers Used in Local Manufactures. — Any person purchasing graded, baled, and inspected fiber for manufacture in the Philippines into yarn, twine, rope, or other articles shall be refunded the inspection fee heretofore provided upon presentation to the Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service within one year of the certificates of inspection covering the number of bales consumed in such manufacture, together with an affidavit that said number of bales has actually been consumed in such manufacture within the Philippines. Sec. 9. Disposition of Funds. — All the amounts
collected as fees for grading permits, inspection fees, sale of
specimens of the official standards and other income shall be deposited
in the Office of the Treasury of the Philippines to the credit of the
Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service and shall constitute a special fund
to be used for the ordinary expenses of the Bureau of Fiber Inspection
Service, the payment of salaries of the inspectors and other employees
of the same, and of any other expenses properly and duly incurred by
the said Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service in the exercise of its
powers and the performance of his duties. Any unexpended surplus
declared by the depositor, Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service, at the
end of any year may be used in accordance with the provisions of
Section seventeen hundred ninety-six-B of the Revised Administrative
Code, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Six hundred three: Sec. 10. The sum set aside in the current appropriation law for the Fiber Inspection Service in the Department of Commerce and Industry shall be expended for the salaries and wages of the personnel of the Bureau of Fiber Inspection Service until June thirty, nineteen hundred and sixty-two; thereafter Congress shall provide for annual expenditures of said Bureau in the annual general appropriation act chargeable against the funds of said Bureau collected from its earnings. Sec. 11. Words Defined. — The words used in this Act
shall be taken in the sense indicated below: Sec. 12. All Acts, executive orders, administrative orders, and proclamations or parts thereof inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or modified accordingly. Sec. 13. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval. Approved: June 17, 1961 |
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