Amendment to R.A. No. 799 Re: Western Luzon School of Arts and Trades

June 18, 1961

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3408

AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE, ENTITLED "AN ACT CONVERTING THE ZAMBALES TRADE SCHOOL TO A NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES, TO BE KNOWN AS WESTERN LUZON SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES, AND AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREFOR"

SECTION 1. Sections one and two of Republic Act Numbered Seven hundred ninety-nine are amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 1. The Western Luzon School of Arts and Trades, located in the Municipality of Iba, Province of Zambales, is hereby renamed Ramon Magsaysay Memorial School of Arts and Trades, and shall be of the La Union School of Arts and Trades type. The Secretary of Education is empowered to reorganize said school accordingly so as to improve and expand the trade industrial courses of collegiate and secondary levels in said school."

"SEC. 2. The sum of three hundred thousand pesos is authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the operation and maintenance of the Ramon Magsaysay Memorial School of Arts and Trades during the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-one. Thereafter, the necessary fund for the same purpose shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts.

SECTION 2. The title of the same Act is amended to read as follows: "An Act renaming the Western Luzon School of Arts and Trades to Ramon Magsaysay Memorial School of Arts and Trades, and authorizing the appropriation of funds therefor." cdt

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

Enacted without Executive approval, June 18, 1961.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 58, No. 26, p. 4717 on June 25, 1962