Amendments to R.A. No. 708 (Foreign Service Act)

October 4, 1971

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6409

AN ACT AMENDING FURTHER SOME SECTIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHT, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE "FOREIGN SERVICE ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES", CONCERNING SALARIES, ALLOWANCES, AND OTHER BENEFITS

SECTION 1. Sections one, two, and four, Part C, Title II, of Republic Act Numbered Seven hundred and eight are hereby further amended to read as follows:

PART C.— Salaries

"Sec. 1. Chiefs of Mission. — The President shall, on the basis of the importance of the post and for salary purposes, classify into three classes the positions which are to be occupied by chiefs of mission. The basic salaries of chiefs of mission per annum shall be as follows:

Class I	P24,000.00
Class II	23,000.00
Class III	22,000.00

"Sec. 2. Foreign Service Officers. — There shall be four classes of foreign service officers, excluding the class of career minister. The basic salary of a career minister per annum shall be twenty thousand pesos. The basic salaries of foreign service officers per annum within each of the other classes shall be as follows:

Class I	P16,800	P17,400	P18,000
Class II	15,000	15,600	16,200
Class III	13,200	13,800	14,400
Class IV	11,400	12,000	12,600

"Sec. 4. Foreign Service Staff Officers and Employees. — There shall be three classes of foreign service staff officers and three classes of Foreign Service Staff employees. Their basic salaries per annum shall be as follows: acd

Foreign Service Staff Officers
Class I	P9,600	P9,900	P10,200
Class II	8,700	9,000	9,300
Class III	7,800	8,100	8,400
Foreign Service Staff Employees
Class I	P6,600	P6,900	P7,200
Class II	5,700	6,000	6,300
Class III	4,800	5,100	5,400

SECTION 2. Section 1, Title VII of the same Act is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 1. Implementation. — In order to implement the provisions of this Act, the Secretary shall effect the re-organization of the Department and the Foreign Service in accordance with the provisions of this Act and for this purpose he is authorized to reallot the funds provided for the Department in the General Appropriations Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred seventy-one-nineteen hundred seventy-two: Provided, however, That any officer receiving the salary and allowances of a particular class of Foreign Service Officer at the time of the approval of this Act shall continue to receive the salary and allowances corresponding to the same class under the provisions of this Act. In addition to the sum of two million five hundred thirty-two thousand sixty pesos appropriated under the provisions of Republic Act Numbered Four thousand one hundred and twelve, the sum of Two million nine hundred fifty-six thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any unappropriated funds of the National Treasury to carry out the provisions of this Act, as amended." acd

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

Approved: October 4, 1971

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 68, No. 9, p. 1703 on February 28, 1972