REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3352 - AN ACT TO
AMEND Sec. ONE OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED
FIVE, ENTITLED "AN ACT PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES AND QUALIFICATIONS, AND
FIXING THE NUMBER AND SALARIES, OF THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGAL STAFF IN
THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF JUSTICE"
Section 1. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Two thousand
seven hundred five is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. In the performance of his duties as
Attorney General of the Philippines and as ex officio legal adviser of
government-owned and controlled corporations or enterprises, the
Secretary of Justice shall be assisted by a legal staff which shall
have one chief to be known as Department Legal Counsel whose salary
shall be eight thousand nine hundred forty pesos per annum, and two
assistant chiefs each of whom shall receive a salary of eight thousand
eight hundred eighty pesos per annum, four senior special attorneys,
each of whom shall receive a salary of eight thousand four hundred
pesos per annum, and twenty special attorneys whose salaries shall be
as follows:
"(a) Four special attorneys at seven thousand eight
hundred pesos per annum each;
"(b) Four special attorneys at seven thousand two
hundred pesos per annum each;
"(c) Four special attorneys at six thousand six
hundred pesos per annum each;
"(d) Four special attorneys at six thousand pesos per
annum each;
"(e) Four special attorneys at four thousand eight
hundred pesos per annum each.
"The qualifications for appointment to the position of chief of legal
staff and those of assistant chief shall be the same as those
prescribed for assistant solicitors general, and those of senior
special attorneys and special attorneys shall be the same as those
prescribed for solicitors in the Office of the Solicitor General.
"In the interest of greater efficiency in the discharge of the
functions of the office, the Attorney General's Legal Staff may, in the
discretion of the department head, be organized into two divisions
which shall be headed by the two assistant chiefs who shall be known as
chief special attorneys and shall be assisted by the senior special
attorneys as assistant chiefs of their respective
divisions."
Sec. 2. In addition to such as may have been provided
in the current Appropriation Act, there is hereby appropriated out of
any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such
sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Henceforth, appropriations to cover salaries of the legal staff as
herein provided shall be carried in the annual General Appropriation
Act.
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Enacted, without Executive
approval, June 18, 1961.
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