An Act Authorizing the Payment of Compensation Equivalent to the Salary of Six Months of Any Employee in the Service of the National Government or in the Service of the Government of a Province, City, Municipality or Municipal District Who is Killed or Dies of Injuries Received or Sickness Contracted in Line of Duty, Amending for the Purpose Section Six Hundred Ninety-Nine of the Administrative Code, as Amended

REPUBLIC ACT No. 1232

An Act Authorizing the Payment of Compensation Equivalent to the Salary of Six Months of Any Employee in the Service of the National Government or in the Service of the Government of a Province, City, Municipality or Municipal District Who is Killed or Dies of Injuries Received or Sickness Contracted in Line of Duty, Amending for the Purpose Section Six Hundred Ninety-Nine of the Administrative Code, as Amended

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. Section six hundred ninety-nine of the Administrative Code, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

Section 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 7, 1955.

"Sec. 699. Allowances in case of injury, death, or sickness incurred in performance of duty.— When a person in the service of the national government or in the service of the government of a province, city, municipality or municipal district is so injured in the performance of duty as thereby to receive some actual physical hurt or wound, the proper Head of Department may direct the absence during any period of disability thereby occasioned shall be on full pay, though not for more than six months, and in such case he may in his discretion also authorize the payment of the medical attendance, necessary transportation, subsistence, and hospital fees of the injured person. Absence in the case contemplated shall be charged first against vacation leave, if any there be.

"If a person in such service is killed or dies of injuries received or sickness contracted in line of duty, the Department Head shall authorize the payment of reasonable burial expenses and of six month’s salary or wages in no case less than one thousand pesos to the surviving spouse or dependent child or children of such deceased person.

"In case of sickness caused by or connected directly with the performance of some act in the line of duty, the Department head may in his discretion authorize the payment of the necessary hospital fees.

"For employees of a city the time allowance and disbursements contemplated above shall not be granted except upon recommendation of the Municipal Board or council of the city; in the case of employees of a provincial government, upon the recommendation of the provincial board; and in the case of employees of a municipal or municipal district government, upon the recommendation of the municipal council or municipal district mayor, as the case may be."