Amendments to R.A. No. 3949 Re: Establishment of Merida Vocational School

June 21, 1969

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5957

AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE WHICH ESTABLISHED THE MERIDA VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

SECTION 1. The title of Republic Act Numbered Three thousand nine hundred forty-nine is amended to read as follows:

"An Act establishing a school for Philippine craftsmen in the Municipality of Merida, Province of Leyte, to be known as the Merida School of Home Industries, and authorizing the appropriation of funds therefor."

SECTION 2. Section one of the same Act is amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 1. There is hereby established in the Municipality of Merida, Province of Leyte, a school to be known as Merida School of Home Industries for the promotion of home and small industries under the supervision and administration of the Home Industries Division, Bureau of Vocational Education."

SECTION 3. The same Act is further amended by inserting after Section one thereof the following new sections which shall read as follows:

"Sec. 1-A. The Merida School of Home Industries shall have the following functions:

"(a) To offer opportunity courses in home industries to young students as well as to adults; casia

"(b) To conduct researches on processing of raw materials, designing of home industry articles, and engage in the production of models of handtools and small equipment and machinery for training and production;

"(c) To offer training in the standardization and quality control of home industries products;

"(d) To render consultant services on home industries promotion and technology, conduct extension training throughout the area serviced by the school; and

"(e) To offer courses in the secondary and technical levels with home industries and small business as the core.

"Sec. 1-B. The Merida School of Home Industries is hereby authorized to accept endowments, grants, donations and contributions from provincial and municipal governments and from natural and juridical persons for the improvement and expansion of its services." aisa dc

SECTION 4. Section three of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 3. The sum of two hundred thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the establishment, operation and maintenance of said school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventy. Thereafter, the sums necessary for its operation and maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Enacted without Executive approval, June 21, 1969. cd i

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 66, No. 12, p. 2797 on March 23, 1970