REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5957 - AN
ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED
FORTY-NINE WHICH ESTABLISHED THE MERIDA VOCATIONAL SCHOOL.
Section 1. The title of Republic Act Numbered Three thousand
nine hundred forty-nine is amended to read as follows:
"An Act establishing a school for Philippine craftsmen in the
Municipality of Merida, Province of Leyte, to be known as the Merida
School of Home Industries, and authorizing the appropriation of funds
therefor."
Sec. 2. Section one of the same Act is amended to
read as follows:
"Section 1. There is hereby established in the
Municipality of Merida, Province of Leyte, a school to be known as
Merida School of Home Industries for the promotion of home and small
industries under the supervision and administration of the Home
Industries Division, Bureau of Vocational Education."
Sec. 3. The same Act is further amended by
inserting after Section one thereof the following new sections which
shall read as follows:
"Sec. 1-A. The Merida School of Home Industries shall
have the following functions:
"(a) To offer opportunity courses in home industries
to young students as well as to adults;
"(b) To conduct researches on processing of raw
materials, designing of home industry articles, and engage in the
production of models of handtools and small equipment and machinery for
training and production;
"(c) To offer training in the standardization and
quality control of home industries products;
"(d) To render consultant services on home industries
promotion and technology, conduct extension training throughout the
area serviced by the school; and
"(e) To offer courses in the secondary and technical
levels with home industries and small business as the core.
"Sec. 1-B. The Merida School of Home Industries is
hereby authorized to accept endowments, grants, donations and
contributions from provincial and municipal governments and from
natural and juridical persons for the improvements and expansion of its
services."
Sec. 4. Section three of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 3. The sum of two hundred thousand pesos is
hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the establishment, operation
and maintenance of said school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred
and seventy. Thereafter, the sums necessary for its operation and
maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969.
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