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[ Act No. 2990, February 26, 1921 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY AND TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHT OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, RELATIVE TO THE ACCUMULATION AND COMMUTATION OF ACCRUED LEAVE, RESPECTIVELY.1

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

Section 1. Section two hundred and eighty of the Revised Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 280. Accumulation of accrued leave.-If accrued leave is not taken, in whole or in part, as earned, the same shall accumulate for five years, after which the person entitled to leave may obtain accrued leave for five years' service; but if the requirements of the Bureau or office do not permit of this, such person shall be entitled to collect annually the value of the additional leave not so accumulated."

Section 2. Section two hundred and eighty-eight of said Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 288. Commutation of salary for persons on leave.-In favor of persons on accrued leave or teacher's leave, the proper Department Head may, in his discretion, direct a commutation of the salary that would be received during the period of leave and lieu of the payment of such salary in usual course authorize the payment, from the fund out of which the salary would have been paid, of an equivalent sum in gross on or before the beginning of such leave or vacation.ℒαwρhi৷"

Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, February 26, 1921.

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Footnotes

1See Executive Order No. 12, 1921, p. 267 post.

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