Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila
Fifteenth Congress
Third Regular Session
Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila
Fifteenth Congress
Third Regular Session
[REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10625]
AN ACT REORGANIZING THE
PHILIPPINE STATISTICAL SYSTEM, REPEALING FOR THE PURPOSE EXECUTIVE ORDER
NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE, ENTITLED “REORGANIZING AND
STRENGTHENING THE PHILIPPINE STATISTICAL SYSTEM AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Philippine Statistical Act of 2013”.
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. –
It shall be the policy of the State to effect the necessary and proper
changes in the organizational and functional structures of the
Philippine Statistical System (PSS), its agencies and instrumentalities,
in order to rationalize and promote efficiency and effectiveness in the
delivery of statistical services, maintain an integrated statistical
system characterized by independence, objectivity and integrity so as to
enhance responsiveness to the requirements of equitable national
development, promote the orderly development of a statistical system
capable of providing timely, accurate and useful data for the government
and the public, and support decentralization through the establishment
of the statistical infrastructure necessary to service the statistical
needs of local development planning.
SEC. 3. Reorganization. – The
Philippine Statistical System, hereinafter referred to as the PSS, shall
be reorganized structurally and functionally, in accordance with the
provisions of this Act.
SEC. 4. Philippine Statistical System (PSS).
– The PSS shall consist of statistical organizations at all
administrative levels, the personnel therein and the national
statistical program. This includes a policy-making body, a coordinating
body with primary data collection capability, a statistical research and
training institute, and all executive departments, bureaus, offices,
agencies and instrumentalities of the national and local governments and
all government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) and their
subsidiaries that are engaged in statistical activities either as their
primary functions or as part of their administrative or regulatory
functions. The PSS shall remain decentralized with a strong coordination
feature to be achieved through postings of trained personnel and closer
linkage between statistical programming and budgeting.
SEC. 5. Philippine Statistics Authority.
– There shall be created a Philippine Statistics Authority, hereinafter
referred to as the PSA, attached to the National Economic and
Development Authority (NEDA) for purposes of policy coordination. It
shall be comprised of the PSA Board and offices on sectoral statistics,
censuses and technical coordination, civil registration and central
support and field statistical services.
The PSA Board shall be the highest
policy-making body on statistical matters. The data produced by the PSA
shall be the official and controlling statistics of the government. The
PSA shall be primarily responsible for all national censuses and
surveys, sectoral statistics, consolidation of selected administrative
recording systems and compilation of the national accounts.
The PSA shall be constituted from among
the existing personnel of the major statistical agencies engaged in
primary data collection and compilation of secondary data, i.e., the
National Statistics Office, herein referred to as the NSO; the Technical
Staff of the National Statistical Coordination Board herein referred to
as the NSCB; the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, herein referred to
as the BAS; and the Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics, herein
referred to as the BLES.
The Departmentof Economic Statistics of
the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will continue to take charge of
banking and financial statistics, including the Balance of Payments
(BOP) and flow of funds.
SEC. 6. Functions of the PSA. – The PSA shall have the following functions:
a. Serve as the central statistical authority of the Philippine government on primary data collection;
b. Prepare and
conduct periodic censuses on population, housing, agriculture,
fisheries, business, industry and other sectors of the economy;
c. Collect, compile,
analyze, abstract and publish statistical information relating to the
country’s economic, social, demographic, political affairs and general
activities and condition of the people;
d. Prepare and
conduct statistical sample surveys on all aspects of socioeconomic life
including agriculture, industry, trade, finance, prices and marketing
information, income and expenditure, education, health, culture and
social situations as well as the government and the political sector for
the use of the government and the public;
e. Carry out,
enforce and administer civil registration functions in the country as
provided for in Act No. 3753, otherwise known as the Civil Registry Law;
f. Collaborate with
departments of the national government including GOCCs and their
subsidiaries in the collection, compilation, maintenance and publication
of statistical information, including special statistical data derived
from the activities of those departments, corporations and their
subsidiaries;
g. Promote and
develop integrated social and economic statistics and coordinate plans
for the integration of those statistics, including the national
accounts;
h. Develop and maintain appropriate frameworks and standards for the collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of data;
i. Coordinate with
government departments and local government units (LGUs) on the
promotion and adoption of statistical standards involving techniques,
methodologies, concepts, definitions and classifications, and on the
avoidance of duplication in the collection of statistical information;
j. Conduct
continuing methodological, analytical and development activities, in
coordination with the Philippine Statistical Research and Training
Institute (PSRTI) to improve the conduct of censuses, surveys and other
data collection activities;
k. Recommend
executive and legislative measures to enhance the development of the
statistical activities and programs of the government;
l. Prepare, in consultation with the PSA Board, a Philippine Statistical Development Program (PSDP);
m. Implement policies on statistical matters and coordination, as directed by the PSA Board; and
n. Perform other functions as may be assigned by the PSA Board and as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
SEC. 7. Composition of the PSA Board.
– The PSA Board shall be composed of the following: the NEDA
Director-General, as Chairperson; the Secretary of the Department of
Budget and Management (DBM) or the duly designated Undersecretary, as
Vice Chairperson; National Statistician; one (1) representative each
from the other departments in the national government; a representative
of the BSP; the Executive Director of the PSRTI; a representative of the
Philippine Statistical Association; a representative from the GOCCs; a
representative each from the Union of Local Authorities of the
Philippines (ULAP) and the private sector to be appointed by the
Chairperson of the PSA Board for a term of three (3) years, with
reappointment, from a list of nominees submitted by the other members of
the Board.
In the absence or temporary incapacity
of the NEDA Director-General, the DBM Secretary or the duly designated
Undersecretary shall act as the Chairperson of the Board.
The PSA Board shall constitute five (5)
sections, each with a maximum of seven (7) members. Each section shall
meet as often as possible to deliberate on matters to be discussed by
the PSA Board. These sections are the following:
a. Agriculture, Industry, Trade and Services, Environment and Natural Resources, Prices and National Accounts;
b. Labor and
Employment, Population, Women and Gender, Health and Welfare, Education,
Science and Technology and other Socioeconomic Sectors;
c. Census and Survey Design;
d. Theoretical Statistics and Statistical Modeling; and
e. Statistical Information System and Information Technology.
The Board may create sections as deemed necessary and appropriate.
SEC. 8. Meeting and Compensation. – The PSA Board shall:
a. Conduct its first organizational meeting within forty-five (45) days from the effectivity of this Act; and
b. Hold regular
quarterly meetings and have as many special meetings as may be necessary
on call of the Chairperson or upon request of any fifteen (15) members
thereof.
The members of the Board, except for the ex officio members, shall each receive per diem at rates to be determined by the DBM in accordance with existing rules and regulations: Provided, however, That the total per diem, collected each month shall not exceed the equivalent per diem for four (4) meetings.
SEC. 9. Powers and Functions of the PSA Board. – The PSA Board shall have the following powers and functions:
a. Establish appropriate mechanisms to promote and maintain an efficient and effective statistical system in the government;
b. Formulate policies on all matters relating to government statistical operations, standards and classifications;
c. Review the
statistical programs of the departments and agencies of the national
government and the LGUs and rationalize responsibilities in these
government organizations on matters relating to such statistical
programs;
d. Review budgetary proposals involving statistical operations and submit an integrated budget for the PSS to the DBM;
e. Prescribe
appropriate frameworks for the improvement of statistical coordination
and establish mechanisms for statistical coordination at the regional
and LGU levels;
f. Provide technical assistance and exercise supervision over major government statistical activities;
g. Recommend
executive and legislative measures to enhance the development and
efficiency of the system, including the internal structure of
statistical agencies; and
h. Approve the Philippine Statistical Development Program.
The PSA Board shall act on and decide
matters before it by a majority vote of all its members. A majority of
the members of the PSA Board shall constitute a quorum in the conduct of
its day to day affairs and business.
All agencies of government are hereby mandated to comply with any and all directives requested by the PSA Board, either motu proprio
or through the PSA. Failure, without justifiable reason, by any agency
to comply with this mandate shall result in the filing of administrative
and criminal cases against the erring government personnel and the
immediate superior concerned without prejudice to violation of any other
law or regulation. In a criminal case, the penalties provided in the
second paragraph of Section 27 hereof shall apply.
SEC. 10. Inter-Agency Committees on Statistics.
– The following inter-agency statistical committees (IACs) shall be
created by the PSA Board to coordinate and resolve agency and sectoral
concerns on statistical matters. The IAC shall serve as a forum for
discussion of the issues raised by concerned producers, users and other
stakeholders of sectoral and agency-specific statistics:
a. Committee on Agriculture;
b. Committee on Trade and Industry Statistics;
c. Committee on Infrastructure;
d. Committee on Financial Statistics;
e. Committee on Social Statistics;
f. Committee on Gender Statistics;
g. Committee on Environment and Natural Resources;
h. Committee on Information and Communications Technology;
i. Committee on Science and Technology;
j. Committee on Governance;
k. Committee on Migration;
l. Committee on Fiscal Matters; and
m. Committee on PSS Resources.
The PSA Board may create IACs to assist
in the exercise of its functions or abolish them as appropriate. It
shall define the functions and terms of reference of the IACs which will
allow flexibility and the ability to respond to future emerging
statistical concerns on various sectors.
The membership of the IACs may be increased or decreased as the exigencies of the work require: Provided,
That these shall be authorized by the PSA Board. The IACs may create
subcommittees or working groups as the need arises in the work to be
done. Membership of said subcommittees or working groups shall come from
the technical staff of the government agencies represented and other
private entities.
The IACs shall submit to the PSA Board
their work programs and report on the progress of their work, including
findings and recommendations on technical issues referred to them.
SEC. 11. The National Statistician.
– The National Statistician, as head of the PSA, must possess
experience in the management of data collection and at least a Master’s
degree in Statistics. The National Statistician shall be appointed by
the President of the Republic of the Philippines from among a list of
nominees submitted by a Special Committee. The Special Committee shall
be composed of representatives from the Philippine Statistical
Association, the University of the Philippines’ School of Statistics
(UPSS), the University of the Philippines-Los Baños Institute of
Statistics (UPLB-INSTAT), the Department of Economic Statistics of the
BSP and the NEDA.
The National Statistician shall serve for a term of five (5) years and may be reappointed.
The National Statistician shall perform the following duties:
a. Direct and supervise the general administration of the PSA;
b. Prescribe rules
and regulations, instructions, schedule and form of business of the PSA
in the collection, compilation and dissemination of statistics and other
information and in the conduct of any census;
c. Provide overall
direction in the implementation of the Civil Registry Law and related
issuances and exercise technical supervision over the local civil
registrars as Civil Registrar General;
d. Direct and manage the implementation and execution of policies, standards, rules and regulations formulated by the PSA Board;
e. Issue appointments of PSA personnel below the rank of Director;
f. Represent PSA as signatory to all contracts, researches and other awards;
g. Represent the
Philippines in regional and international conferences and meetings as
the country’s highest authority with respect to statistical matters;
h. Submit a report
to the President of the Republic of the Philippines through the NEDA
Director-General on the activities of the PSA in the preceding year.
Such report shall also be submitted separately in the annual report to
Congress during the presentation of the President’s budget; and
i. Perform such other functions as may be assigned by the PSA Board.
SEC. 12. Organizational Structure of the PSA.
– The PSA offices shall be composed of the Sectoral Statistics Office,
Censuses and Technical Coordination Office, Civil Registration and
Central Support Office, Field Statistical Services comprising of the
regional offices and provincial statistical offices.
The PSA shall be headed by a National Statistician and assisted by three (3) Deputy National Statisticians:
(a) Deputy National Statistician for Sectoral Statistics;
(b) Deputy National Statistician for Censuses and Technical Coordination; and
(c) Deputy National Statistician for Civil Registration and Central Support.
There shall be established, directly under the Office of the National Statistician, the following support units:
(1) Legal Services;
(2) Statistical Methodology;
(3) International Cooperation; and
(4) Management and Corporate Planning.
The Deputy National Statistician for
Sectoral Statistics shall supervise three (3) Assistant National
Statisticians (ANS), who shall oversee the following offices:
(1) Macroeconomic
Accounts Statistics – shall be responsible for the development and
maintenance of national accounts, regional accounts, satellite accounts,
input/output tables and other related, macroeconomic accounts;
(2) Economic Sector
Statistics – shall be responsible for the production of primary data on
agriculture, industry, trade, services, environment and natural
resources, prices and other related economic statistics; and
(3) Social Sector
Statistics – shall be responsible for the production of primary data on
labor and employment, population, women and gender, health and welfare,
education, science and technology, housing and urbanization, emerging
concerns and other related social statistics.
The Deputy National Statistician for
Censuses and Technical Coordination shall supervise three (3) Assistant
National Statisticians, who shall oversee the following offices:
(1) National
Censuses – shall be responsible for the planning and production of data
from censuses on population and housing, agriculture, fisheries and
economic activities; and development and maintenance of sampling frames
and geographic information on population and housing, agriculture,
fisheries and economic activities;
(2) Standards –
shall be responsible for the formulation and monitoring of statistical
development programs, formulation of standards and classification,
including glossary of statistical terms and geographic classification;
and
(3) Information
Technology (IT) and Dissemination – shall be responsible for the
development and maintenance of IT systems and programs, IT operations,
statistical data archives, communication and information services.
The Deputy National Statistician for
Civil Registration and Central Support shall supervise two (2) Assistant
National Statisticians, who shall oversee the following offices:
(1) Civil
Registration – shall be responsible for the civil registry document
management and archiving, data center, policy advocacy and research on
civil registration matters, outlet and customer services and other civil
registration concerns; and
(2) Central Support –
shall be responsible for the general administration, financial
services, human resource management, human resource development and
procurement.
SEC. 13. Sectoral Statistics Office. – The Sectoral Statistics Office shall:
(a) Provide
technical staff support to the PSA in the areas of agriculture, natural
resources, agrarian reform, mining and quarrying, manufacturing,
electricity, gas and water, energy, construction, foreign and domestic
trade, services, science and technology, finance, investment,
population, women and gender, health, nutrition, education, labor and
employment, social welfare, governance, public order and justice;
(b) Provide
technical staff support to the PSA in generating the national accounts
and the development and maintenance of economic and social accounts;
(c) Plan and conduct surveys as may be required, in accordance with the approved statistical calendar; and
(d) Perform such other tasks as may be assigned by the National Statistician.
SEC. 14. Censuses and Technical Coordination Office. – The Censuses and Technical Coordination Office shall:
(a) Prepare, conduct, process and disseminate census results in accordance with the approved statistical calendar;
(b) Maintain and develop statistical standards and classification systems;
(c) Provide
technical assistance to other concerned government offices to meet their
statistical requirements for policy-making, planning and programming;
(d) Coordinate the activities of the Regional Statistical Services;
(e) Provide information technology systems and programming and IT operations support for the PSA projects;
(f) Provide other PSA offices with cartographic services;
(g) Maintain archives and communication and information services of PSA generated data;
(h) Provide the data center for statistics and civil registration; and
(i) Perform such other tasks as may be assigned by the National Statistician.
SEC. 15. Civil Registration and Central Support Office.
– The Civil Registration and Central Support Office shall provide
technical and support services to the various units of the PSA in the
areas of administrative services, financial management services and
human resources. It shall likewise provide technical and support
services for the efficient functioning of civil registration system and
perform such other tasks as may be assigned by the National
Statistician.
SEC. 16. Field Statistical Services.
– A Regional Statistical Services Office (RSSO) and Provincial
Statistical Office (PSO) shall be established in each of the
administrative regions and provinces, respectively. The RSSO and PSO
shall:
(a) Provide technical staff support to the PSA;
(b) Provide
technical assistance as may be required by the implementing agencies and
local governments in the regions and provinces; and
(c) Perform such other tasks as may be assigned by the National Statistician.
SEC. 17. Philippine Statistical Research and Training Institute (PSRTI).
– The PSRTI is hereby created and shall be attached to the NEDA for
purposes of policy coordination. As such, the Statistical Research and
Training Center (SRTC) is hereby abolished and all SRTC assets and
liabilities, appropriations, records and personnel, if any, shall be
transferred to the PSRTI.
SEC. 18. Functions of the PSRTI. – The PSRTI shall carry out the following functions:
(a) Develop a
comprehensive and integrated research and training program on the
theories, concepts and methodologies for the promotion of the
statistical system;
(b) Undertake research on statistical concepts, definitions and methods;
(c) Promote collaborative research efforts among members of the academic community, data producers and users;
(d) Conduct
nondegree training programs to upgrade the quality of statistics
personnel and expand the statistics human resource base in support of
the needs of the PSS;
(e) Provide
scholarships, financial and other forms of assistance to build
statistical manpower and enhance training and statistical research and
development;
(f) Serve as
repository of all statistical researches and studies to be generated by
the PSA as well as back-up/duplicate files of data archives and other
statistical databases of the PSS; and
(g) Invest its funds
in such undertaking as it may deem wise or necessary to carry out its
objectives with due consideration to existing guidelines on investing
government funds.
SEC. 19. Composition of the PSRTI.
– The PSRTI shall be headed by an Executive Director, who shall be
nominated by the PSA Board and appointed by the President of the
Republic of the Philippines. The PSRTI Executive Director shall possess a
Master’s degree in Statistics.
The PSRTI shall have a governing board
that shall formulate policies for its management and operations. The PSA
Board Chairperson shall be the Chairperson of the PSRTI Governing
Board, with the following as members: Dean of the University of the
Philippines’ School of Statistics, Executive Director of the Philippine
Social Science Council (PSSC), a representative of the NEDA and the
Executive Director of the PSRTI, as ex officio members. The PSA
Board Chairperson may appoint two (2) representatives from the private
sector to the PSRTI Governing Board from among a list of nominees
submitted by the Board.
The PSRTI Governing Board shall meet at
least every semester to discuss and formulate policies for the
management and operations of the PSRTI. The PSRTI shall provide
reasonable allowances to its Governing Board.
SEC. 20. PSRTI Fellows and Associates.
– The PSRTI shall be authorized to engage professionals either as
fellows or associates, for purposes of conducting training sessions and
researches for the PSRTI. Fellows should have experience in research or
training and have preferably earned a doctorate degree in Statistics,
Economics, Social Sciences, Computer Sciences or related disciplines
while associates should have earned at least a Masteral degree in these
fields. Those so engaged by the PSRTI shall be issued appointments and
paid fees as determined by the PSRTI, and as approved by the PSA Board.
SEC. 21. PSRTI Endowment Fund. –
The existing SRTC Endowment Fund shall be transferred to the PSRTI and
serve as the initial PSRTI endowment fund. The PSRTI is authorized to
accept into its endowment fund any contributions, donations, bequests,
grants and loans from domestic and/or foreign sources, government
appropriations and other incomes accruing from the operations of the
PSRTI, for purposes of executing its mandate and functions.
The amount necessary to augment the endowment fund shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
SEC. 22. PSRTI Operating Funds. –
The amount appropriated for the operating fund of the SRTC under the
current General Appropriations Act shall constitute the initial
operating fund of the PSRTI. Thereafter, the government contribution
necessary to support the research and training programs of the PSRTI
shall be determined based on the annual financial plan approved by its
Governing Board and submitted to the DBM.
SEC. 23. Posting of Statistical Personnel in Government Offices.
– In the exercise of its functions and in accordance with the
priorities set by the PSA Board, the PSA may post teams of its
statistical personnel in other government offices to carry out the work
program to be drawn up in coordination with the host offices. The posted
teams shall be proportional to the size and needs of the government
offices. Personnel posted in a government office shall be supervised by
the Deputy National Statistician for Sectoral Statistics and shall
render fortnightly statistical reports to the Office of the National
Statistician. The heads of the host offices shall submit periodic
performance evaluation reports on posted personnel to the National
Statistician.
SEC. 24. Philippine Statistical Development Program (PSDP).
– The PSDP shall consist of all statistical activities to be undertaken
by the PSS in response to the requirements of development planning and
policy formulation.
SEC. 25. Obligation to Provide Information.
– The National Statistician shall determine whether a statistical
inquiry or survey to be conducted is with or without an obligation to
provide information. If such obligation is stipulated, all respondents
whether natural or legal persons shall be liable to reply to the
statistical inquiry or survey. This section applies to all statistical
inquiries or surveys conducted by other statistical offices in the PSS.
The respondents under this Act are
required to give truthful and complete answers to statistical inquiries
or surveys of the PSA and other statistical offices of the PSS. The
respondent is considered to have complied with the obligation only upon
receipt of the duly completed statistical inquiry or survey forms. The
government shall provide franking privileges, charges and postings to
the survey offices, unless otherwise disallowed by law.
The PSA is authorized to gather data from other government agencies for statistical purposes.
SEC. 26. Confidentiality of Information.
– Individual data furnished by a respondent to statistical inquiries,
surveys and censuses of the PSA shall be considered privileged
communication and as such shall be inadmissible as evidence in any
proceeding.
The PSA may release aggregated
information from statistical inquiries, surveys and censuses in the form
of summaries or statistical tables in which no reference to an
individual, corporation, association, partnership, institution or
business enterprise shall appear.
The National Statistician and all staff
of the PSA shall take a solemn oath regarding confidentiality of
information. However, confidentiality of information does not apply to:
(a) Information in
the form of a list or index of individual business firms, establishments
or organizations that contain any or all of the following information:
(1) The name, address and telephone numbers;
(2) The business and products that they are engaged in; and
(3) The specific ranges of number of employees.
(b) Microdata from
statistical inquiries or survey form/questionnaire/schedule prepared by
the PSA for purposes of research, with care to ensure that identities of
a particular person, business or organization will not be disclosed in
whatever form; and
(c) Access to census data after one hundred (100) years for historical, genealogical, scientific or other research purposes.
SEC. 27. Penalties. – Respondents
of primary data collection activities such as censuses and sample
surveys are obliged to give truthful and complete answers to statistical
inquiries. The gathering, consolidation and analysis of such data shall
likewise be done in the most truthful and credible manner.
To ensure compliance, any violation of
this Act shall result in the imposition of the penalty of one (1) year
imprisonment and a fine of One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00). In
cases where the respondent who fails to give a truthful and complete
answer to such statistical inquiries is a corporation, the above penalty
shall be imposed against the responsible officer, director, manager
and/or agent of said corporation. In addition, such erring corporation
or any other juridical entity, depending on the category of the
enterprise or business concerned whether small, medium or large, shall
be imposed a fine ranging from One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00)
to Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00).
Any person, including parties within the
PSA Board and the PSA, who breach the confidentiality of information,
whether by carelessness, improper behavior, behavior with malicious
intent, and use of confidential information for profit, are considered
guilty of an offense and shall be liable to fines as prescribed by the
PSA Board which shall not be less than Five thousand pesos (P5,000.00)
nor more than Ten thousand pesos (P10,000.00) and/or imprisonment of
three (3) months but not to exceed one (1) year, subject to the degree
of breach of information.
Failure to comply with the survey
clearance provision shall be penalized by a fine of Fifty thousand pesos
(P50,000.00) to One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00), depending on
the gravity and seriousness of such noncompliance.
SEC. 28. Abolition of Existing Government Bodies.
– The NSO, the BAS of the Department of Agriculture, the BLES of the
Department of Labor and Employment, and the NSCB shall be abolished and
their appropriations, records, properties and personnel shall be
transferred to the PSA.
SEC. 29. Transitory Provisions. –
The PSA shall carry out the reorganization of the PSS in such a manner
that personnel of the agencies absorbed by the PSA shall continue to
perform their respective duties and responsibilities in a holdover
capacity so as not to unduly delay the production of statistics from
ongoing censuses, surveys and processing of administrative records.
SEC. 30. Early Retirement, Separation Pay and Other Benefits.
– Personnel of the merged agencies who will not be absorbed into the
new staffing pattern due to redundancy or failure to comply with the
standards of competence and proficiency, or who will be offered
positions under the new staffing pattern but who decline such
appointment by reason of diminution in rank, benefits and work
conditions, or who are offered positions under the new staffing pattern
without any diminution in rank, benefits and work conditions but who
decline such appointment, if qualified, shall be given the option to
avail themselves of any of the following, whichever is beneficial to
them:
(a) Retirement
gratuity provided under Republic Act No. 1616 (An Act Further Amending
Section Twelve Of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Eighty-Six, As
Amended, By Prescribing Two Other Modes Of Retirement And For Other
Purposes), as amended, payable by the last employer of the affected
personnel, plus the refund of retirement premiums payable by the
Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), without the incentive herein
provided.
(b) Retirement
benefit under Republic Act No. 660 (An Act To Amend Commonwealth Act
Numbered One Hundred And Eighty-Six, Entitled “An Act To Create And
Establish A Government Service Insurance System, To Provide For Its
Administration, And To Appropriate The Necessary Funds Therefor,” And To
Provide Retirement Insurance And For Other Purposes) or applicable
retirement, separation or unemployment benefit provided under Republic
Act No. 8291 (An Act Amending Presidential Decree No. 1146, As Amended,
Expanding And Increasing The Coverage And Benefits Of The Government
Service Insurance System, Instituting Reforms Therein And For Other
Purposes) if qualified, plus the following applicable incentives:
(b.1.) 1/2 month of
the present basic salary for every year of government service and a
fraction thereof, for those who have rendered twenty (20) years of
service and below;
(b.2.) 3/4 month of
the present basic salary for every year of government service and a
fraction thereof, computed starting from the 1st year, for those who have rendered twenty-one (21) to less than thirty-one (31) years of service; and
(b.3.) 1 month of
the present basic salary for every year of government service and a
fraction thereof, computed starting from the 1st year, for those who have rendered thirty-one (31) years of service and above.
In addition, the affected personnel
shall be entitled to the refund of Pag-IBIG contributions, and the
commutation of unused vacation and sick leave credits.
SEC. 31. Funds for Reorganization.
– The amount necessary for the effective implementation of the
provisions ofthis Act shall be taken from funds available to the
agencies enumerated in Section 28 hereof. Additional requirements shall
be charged to the appropriations under the current General
Appropriations Act. Thereafter, such sum as may be needed for the
continued implementation of this Act shall be included in the annual
General Appropriations Act.
SEC. 32. Implementing Rules and Regulations.
– The PSA Board together with the PSA, the PSRTI, the NEDA and other
concerned agencies of government that may be determined by the PSA
Board, shall formulate the implementing rules and regulations of this
Act within ninety (90) days after its approval. Such rules and
regulations shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in
a newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines.
SEC. 33. Separability Clause. –
If any part, section or provision of this Act is declared invalid or
unconstitutional, no other parts, sections or provisions hereof shall be
affected thereby.
SEC. 34. Repealing Clause. –
Executive Order No. 121 is hereby repealed. All other laws, decrees,
ordinances, rules, regulations, other issuances or parts thereof which
are inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.
SEC. 35. Effectivity Clause. – This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
(Sgd.) JINGGOY EJERCITO ESTRADA
Acting Senate President |
(Sgd.) FELICIANO BELMONTE JR.
Speaker of the House of Representatives |
(Sgd.) EMMA LIRIO-REYES
Secretary of the Senate |
(Sgd.) MARILYN B. BARUA-YAP
Secretary General House of Representatives |
(Sgd.) BENIGNO S. AQUINO III
President of the Philippines
Source: The Official Philippine Government Portal
President of the Philippines
Source: The Official Philippine Government Portal
