Amendment to Sec. 3 of Act No. 3173, as Amended
Act No. 3890, approved on November 16, 1931, amends the retirement compensation provisions for certain officers within the Philippine Health Service. Officers with twenty or more years of service, who have not been separated for cause, can apply for retirement and receive an annual compensation of 2.5% for each year of service, capped at 75% of their salary at retirement. Additionally, the act allows credit for years served in prior health organizations towards the total service time. However, any service prior to re-admission to the Philippine Health Service after separation will not count towards retirement benefits.
Quick Answers
- What is Amendment to Sec. 3 of Act No. 3173, as Amended about?
- Act No. 3890, approved on November 16, 1931, amends the retirement compensation provisions for certain officers within the Philippine Health Service. Officers with twenty or more years of service, who have not been separated for cause, can apply for retirement and receive an annual compensation of 2.5% for each year of service, capped at 75% of their salary at retirement. Additionally, the act allows credit for years served in prior health organizations towards the total service time. However, any service prior to re-admission to the Philippine Health Service after separation will not count towards retirement benefits.
- What type of law is Act No. 3890?
- Amendment to Sec. 3 of Act No. 3173, as Amended (Act No. 3890) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was Amendment to Sec. 3 of Act No. 3173, as Amended enacted?
- Amendment to Sec. 3 of Act No. 3173, as Amended (Act No. 3890) was enacted on Nov 16, 1931.
- What is the citation for Amendment to Sec. 3 of Act No. 3173, as Amended?
- Amendment to Sec. 3 of Act No. 3173, as Amended, Act No. 3890, Nov 16, 1931 (Philippines)
Law Information
- Reference Number
- Act No. 3890
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Statutes
- Subcategory
- Acts
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
November 16, 1931
ACT NO. 3890
AN ACT TO AMEND SUBSECTION (A) OF SECTION THREE OF ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE, AS AMENDED BY ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED AND ELEVEN
SECTION 1. Subsection (a) of section three of Act Numbered Thirty-one hundred and seventy-three, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and eleven, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"(a) Compensation upon retirement. — When (a) any officer of the Philippine Health Service, such as the Director, Assistant Director, chiefs of divisions, chiefs of office and district inspectors and any other medical officers, commissioned or noncommissioned; (b) any pharmacist, dentist, sanitary engineer or assistant sanitary engineer, hospital superintendent, nurse, sanitary inspector or assistant sanitary inspector, disinfector or assistant disinfector, chief or assistant chief of party, or supervisor of vaccinators, and insular or provincial vaccinator, with civil service appointment, belonging to the Philippine Health Service, shall have had twenty or more years of actual service, not having been meanwhile separated from the service for cause, he or she may, upon making application therefor, be retired from active service by the Department Head; and when so retired shall receive until his or her death from the retirement fund above specified an annual compensation equal to two and one-half per cent, for each year's active service theretofore rendered by such officer, of the salary, properly speaking, exclusive of additional pay and other emoluments such as commutation of quarters, subsistence, and laundry, received by such officer at the time he or she is retired; but in no case shall this retirement pay exceed seventy-five per cent of such salary: Provided, That in computing the length of an officer's term of service the years served in any capacity under the various succeeding health organizations antedating the Philippine Health Service, shall be duly credited to such term of service: Provided, further, That whenever any person is readmitted to the Philippine Health Service after the approval of this Act, no period of his services rendered prior to his separation therefrom shall be credited to him for the purposes of this Act." EaCDAT
SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, November 16, 1931.
Cite This Law
Amendment to Sec. 3 of Act No. 3173, as Amended, Act No. 3890, Nov 16, 1931 (Philippines)
Amendment to Sec. 3 of Act No. 3173, as Amended, Act No. 3890 (Phil. 1931)
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