Increase in Number and Salaries of NBI Agents
Republic Act No. 2389, enacted on June 20, 1959, increases the number and salaries of agents in the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in the Philippines. The act establishes a new structure for the Division of Investigation, including a Chief and various levels of agents with specified annual salaries. It ensures that these salaries are provided without prejudice to any additional benefits under existing reorganization plans. Funding for these salary increases is to be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts, and the act takes effect upon approval.
June 20, 1959
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2389
AN ACT INCREASING THE NUMBER AND SALARIES OF AGENTS IN THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
SECTION 1. The Division of Investigation of the National Bureau of Investigation shall have one chief to be known as the Chief, Investigation Division and Evaluation Officer, whose annual salary shall be six thousand two hundred forty pesos. He shall be assisted by fourteen supervising agents each of whom shall receive six thousand pesos per annum who may be assigned heads of district offices of the bureau and such other duties as the Director of the National Bureau of Investigation may assign. There shall also be fourteen senior investigation agents each of whom shall receive five thousand seven hundred sixty pesos per annum, and one hundred seven investigation agents whose salaries shall be as follows:
Thirty-seven investigation agents, five thousand three hundred seventy-six pesos per annum each;
Five investigation agents, four thousand eight hundred sixty pesos per annum each; and
Sixty-five investigation agents, four thousand one hundred eighty-eight pesos per annum each.
SECTION 2. Provisions to the contrary notwithstanding, investigation agents shall receive the salary rates provided for in this Act without prejudice to benefits they may receive under Reorganization Plans Nos. 1-A and 2-A, regarding classification and pay, and other salary laws. aisa dc
SECTION 3. In addition to such sums as may have been provided in the current Appropriation Act, there is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Henceforth, appropriation to cover salaries of investigation agents as herein provided should be carried in the annual General Appropriation Acts.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: June 20, 1959
Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 55, No. 34, p. 6964 on August 24, 1959