REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6409 - AN ACT
AMENDING FURTHER SOME SECTIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED SEVEN HUNDRED
AND EIGHT, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE "FOREIGN SERVICE ACT OF THE
PHILIPPINES", CONCERNING SALARIES, ALLOWANCES, AND OTHER BENEFITS
Section 1.
Section s one, two, and four, Part C, Title II, of Republic Act Numbered
Seven hundred and eight are hereby further amended to read as follows:a
PART C. — Salaries
"Section 1. Chiefs of Mission. — The President shall, on
the basis of the importance of the post and for salary purposes,
classify into three classes the positions which are to be occupied by
chiefs of mission. The basic salaries of chiefs of mission per annum
shall be as follows:
Class I P24,000.00
Class II 23,000.00
Class III 22,000.00
"Sec. 2. Foreign Service Officers. — There shall be
four classes of foreign service officers, excluding the class of career
minister. The basic salary of a career minister per annum shall be
twenty thousand pesos. The basic salaries of foreign service officers
per annum within each of the other classes shall be as follows:
Class I P16,800
P17,400 P18,000
Class II 15,000
15,600 16,200
Class III 13,200
13,800 14,400
Class IV 11,400
12,000 12,600
"Sec. 4. Foreign Service Staff Officers and
Employees. — There shall be three classes of foreign service staff
officers and three classes of Foreign Service Staff employees. Their
basic salaries per annum shall be as follows:
Foreign Service Staff Officers
Class I P9,600
P9,900 P10,200
Class II 8,700
9,000 9,300
Class III 7,800
8,100 8,400
Foreign Service Staff Employees
Class I P6,600
P6,900 P7,200
Class II 5,700
6,000 6,300
Class III 4,800
5,100 5,400
Sec. 2. Section 1, Title VII of the same Act is
hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. Implementation. — In order to implement the
provisions of this Act, the Secretary shall effect the re-organization
of the Department and the Foreign Service in accordance with the
provisions of this Act and for this purpose he is authorized to reallot
the funds provided for the Department in the General Appropriations Act
for the fiscal year nineteen hundred seventy-one-nineteen hundred
seventy-two: provided, however, that any officer receiving the salary
and allowances of a particular class of Foreign Service Officer at the
time of the approval of this Act shall continue to receive the salary
and allowances corresponding to the same class under the provisions of
this Act.n addition to the sum of two million five hundred thirty-two
thousand sixty pesos appropriated under the provisions of Republic Act
Numbered Four thousand one hundred and twelve, the sum of Two million
nine hundred fifty-six thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be
appropriated out of any unappropriated funds of the National Treasury
to carry out the provisions of this Act, as amended."
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: October 4, 1971
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