An Act Fixing the Salaries of the Officers and Personnel in the Administrative Accounting, Fiscal and Other Services of the Department of Justice, and for Other Purposes

REPUBLIC ACT No. 4854

An Act Fixing the Salaries of the Officers and Personnel in the Administrative Accounting, Fiscal and Other Services of the Department of Justice, and for Other Purposes

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

Section 1. The provisions of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, the Department of Justice shall have a General Services Staff, an Accounting Office, and a Fiscal Management Staff, whose respective chiefs shall be known as the Head Administrative Assistant, the Department Chief Accountant, and the Department Financial Officer, each of whom shall receive an annual salary of twelve thousand pesos. It shall be their duty to give technical assistance to the Department Head on matters relating to general administration, accounting of funds, and fiscal operations, respectively, and in the performance thereof each of them shall be assisted by an assistant chief who shall receive an annual salary of ten thousand eight hundred pesos. In addition, the General Services Staff shall have two administrative supervisors, each of whom shall receive an annual salary of ten thousand two hundred pesos, and the Accounting Office, three supervising accountants, all of whom shall receive annual salaries at the rate of nine thousand pesos each, and such complementary personnel as hereinafter provided.

Section 2. The subordinate personnel under the direct supervision of the Head Administrative Assistant and their annual salaries shall be as follows:

The subordinate personnel under the direct supervision of the Department Chief Accountant and their annual salaries shall be as follows:

The subordinate personnel under the direct supervision of the Department Financial Officer and their annual salaries shall be as follows:

Section 3. The administrative head of the Department of Justice Library, which shall remain under the direction and supervision of the Chief Legal Counsel, shall be known as the Department Librarian and shall receive an annual salary of nine thousand six hundred pesos. The library personnel and their annual salaries shall be as follows:

Section 4. The following personnel of the Secretarial and Clerical staff of the Secretary and Undersecretary of Justice shall receive the following annual salaries:

Office of the Secretary

Office of the Undersecretary

Section 5. The officers and employees holding the positions above referred to shall receive the salary rates provided for in this Act, the provisions of any law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That no officer or employee rendering service in the Administrative Division, Accounting Division, Finance and Budget Division, Library, Offices of the Secretary and Undersecretary, Department of Justice, as of the approval of this Act shall, by reason thereof, be removed from office or be demoted in rank or salary except for cause and upon compliance with due process of law.

Section 6. In addition to appropriations provided in the General Appropriations Act for the ensuing fiscal year for the Administrative Division, Accounting Division, Finance and Budget Division, Library, Offices of the Secretary and the Undersecretary, Department of Justice, such sums as may be necessary to cover salaries of the positions herein provided, as well as for equipment, maintenance, and other operating expenses, are hereby appropriated out of any funds of the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Such amounts shall be included in subsequent General Appropriations Act.

Section 7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: July 18, 1966.