REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5211 - AN
ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THREE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN, AS AMENDED, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Section 1. The 3rd paragraph of Section 1 of Republic Act No.
3814, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"The Bureau shall have the following Divisions: Administrative
Division; Research, Standards and Statistics Division; Rural Dental
Health Division; Industrial Dental Health Division; Sanitaria,
Hospital, Puericulture and Charity Center Dental Health Division;
Private Schools Dental Health Division; and such other Divisions as may
be deemed necessary in the interest of public health dentistry."
Sec. 2. Section Two (a) of Republic Act Numbered
Three thousand eight hundred and fourteen is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"Sec. 2 (a). The coordination, control and
supervision of all dental health services in the government including
those under the Department of Health, except those of the Armed Forces
of the Philippines and dental infirmaries for the training of dental
students in dental schools and dental colleges and those under the
Department of Education."
Sec. 3. Sec. 3 of Republic Act Numbered Three
thousand eight hundred and fourteen is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"Sec. 3. To carry out the provisions of this Act, all
dental health and activities of the regional health offices of the
Department of Health, including those in hospitals, sanitaria and other
units under the Department of Health, together with all dental health
personnel, their salary items, equipment and appropriations, except
those specifically excluded in Section two (a) hereof, are hereby
placed under the supervision, integration, control and coordination of
the Bureau of Dental Health Services: Provided, That in the case of
hospitals and sanitaria under the Department of Health, the Bureau of
Dental Health Services shall exercise only technical supervision over
the dental services in those institutions, while the administrative
control and supervision over the dental personnel thereof shall be
exercised by the chiefs of the said institutions. The financing of
these various dental activities as well as the salary items and the
appointments of all their personnel, shall continue as heretofore, and
the President of the Philippines is hereby authorized to effect the
transfer of such dental health activities in the various agencies of
the government as have not as yet been transferred to the Bureau of
Dental Health Services, with the corresponding items and personnel,
equipment and appropriations, upon the approval of this
Act."
Sec. 4. The following classification and salary
allocation of certain key positions provided for the Bureau of Dental
Health Services are hereby established, the rules and regulations
pursuant to the Classification and Pay Plan of the Wage and Positions
Classification Office (WAPCO) to the contrary notwithstanding:
Class Salary Range
Dental Health Adviser R-54
Chief of Dental Division R-53
Chief of Dental Section R-51
Regional Dental Officer R-49
Supervising Dentist R-47
Provincial Dental Officer R-45
Senior Dentist R-42
Dentist I R-40
Provided, That the salary range of each of the above-enumerated
positions shall be subject to such classification and salary range
allocation as may be necessary when the provisions of Republic Act No.
4657 increasing, among others, the minimum annual compensation of
Dentists employed by the government of full time basis shall have been
implemented.
Sec. 5. The sum of seventy thousand pesos is
hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any funds in the national
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the purpose of this
Act, including the salary of such personnel as may be authorized by the
President of the Philippines until their items are incorporated in the
General Appropriations Acts.
Sec. 6. All laws, administrative orders, executive
orders, regulations or parts thereof, inconsistent with any of the
provisions of this Act, are hereby repeated or otherwise amended
accordingly.
Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted into law without
executive signature on June 15, 1968.
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