Creation of Control and Review Division and Additional Positions in General Auditing Office

June 18, 1959

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2253

AN ACT CREATING A DIVISION AND ADDITIONAL POSITIONS IN THE GENERAL AUDITING OFFICE AND PROVIDING FUNDS FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF

SECTION 1. There is hereby created a Division under the Office of the Auditor General, General Auditing Office, to be known as the Control and Review Division, with the following positions and appropriation for its operation: casia

I.    PERSONNEL SERVICES
One chief of division	P7,200
One assistant chief of division	6,600
Two legal officers at P5,400 per annum	10,800
Two legal officers at P4,800 per annum	9,600
One confidential assistant	4,800
Four legal officers at P3,960 per annum	15,840
One civil engineer	6,000
One mechanical engineer	6,000
One electrical engineer	6,000
One architect	4,800
One stenographer	2,400
Two stenographers at P1,800 per annum	3,600
Two drivers at P1,800 per annum...........	3,600
One laborer-filer......................................	1,440
Total for personnel service......	P88,680
II.     MAINTENANCE AND OTHER OPERATING EXPENSES
Travel expenses	P30,000
Total for maintenance and other
	operating expenses	P30,000
III.     FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
Equipment outlay	P5,000
Total for furniture and equipment	5,000
IV.     SUMMARY
Total for personnel services	P88,680
Total for maintenance and other operating
	expenses	30,000
Total for furniture and equipment	5,000
Total appropriation for the Control and
	Review Division	P123,680

SECTION 2. The following additional positions are hereby created to augment the present force of the Program Unit of said Office: cd

Five auditors at P4,800 per annum	P24,000
Five auditors at P3,960 per annum	19,800
Total	P43,800

SECTION 3. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of seventy-five thousand two hundred pesos to carry out the provisions of the Act for the current fiscal year and the amount of one hundred sixty-seven thousand four hundred eighty pesos for the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty. The corresponding appropriation for the succeeding fiscal years shall be included in the General Appropriation Acts for such years.

SECTION 4. Any savings realized in the appropriation authorized in this Act at the end of the fiscal year may be used by the Auditor General in strengthening his Office.

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

Approved: June 18, 1959

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 55, No. 30, p. 5699 on July 27, 1959