Amending R.A. No. 481 (Dental Care for AFP Personnel)

June 13, 1958

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2071

AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTION OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE MORE EFFICIENT DENTAL CARE FOR THE PERSONNEL OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES," AS AMENDED BY REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED ELEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT

SECTION 1. Section three of Republic Act Numbered Four hundred eighty-one is amended to read as follows: casia

"Sec. 3.  The Dental Service shall (1) establish professional standards and policies for the conduct of the Dental Service; (2) issue instructions and conduct inspections and surveys for the maintenance of such standards; (3) initiate and direct all actions relating to the dental service and pertaining to facilities, equipment, supplies, research, tables of organization, planning and personnel, including the appointment, training, classification, assignment, transfer, promotion and decoration of personnel; and (4) submit estimated of the amount of funds needed to maintain the Dental Service."

SECTION 2. Section five of Republic Act Numbered Four hundred eighty-one, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 5.  The number of officers of the Dental Service shall not be less than two officers for every thousand of the total strength of the AFP authorized from time to time. A separate roster for officers of the Dental Service shall be kept separate from the Medical Service. Hereafter the Dental Service shall consist of commissioned officers of the same grades and proportionately distributed among such grades as are now or may hereafter be provided for the Medical Corps, and who shall have the rank, pay and allowances of officers of corresponding grades in the medical corps."

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 13, 1958.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 54, No. 15, p. 4460 on July 21, 1958