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AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FORTY-TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE, ENTITLED "AN ACT CREATING THE PROVINCES OF NORTHERN SAMAR, EASTERN SAMAR, AND WESTERN SAMAR."

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1969

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June 21, 1969

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This act amends Republic Act No. 4221 by adding a new section that ensures officers and employees of the Province of Samar, who are separated due to the division of the province into three, retain their status and continuous service upon reappointment. The law aims to protect the rights of these employees during the transition.
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[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5651, June 21, 1969 ]

AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FORTY-TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE, ENTITLED "AN ACT CREATING THE PROVINCES OF NORTHERN SAMAR, EASTERN SAMAR, AND WESTERN SAMAR."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives  of the Philippines in Congress assembled,:

Section 1. Republic Act Numbered Forty-two hundred and twenty-one is hereby amended by inserting between Section nine and Section ten thereof, a new section which shall read as follows:

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

Approved, June 21, 1969.


"Section 9-A. Officers and employees, whether occupying positions in the classified or unclassified service in the Province of Samar who are separated from the service due to its division into three provinces and who are re-appointed after the division of said province takes effect shall be deemed to have rendered continuous service and shall retain the status of their previous and/or later appointments, whichever is more advantageous to the said officers and employees."

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