PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1820 - AN
ACT TO FURTHER AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE
INSURANCE ACT SO AS TO EXTEND ITS BENEFITS TO EMPLOYEES OF THE
PHILIPPINE TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY |
Section 1.
Subsection (a) of section two of the Commonwealth Act Numbered One
hundred eighty-six, otherwise known as the Government Service Insurance
Act, as amended, is further amended to read as follows: "(a) "Employer"
shall mean the National or a local government, an agency, board, or
corporation controlled or owned by the Government, and shall include
the Philippine Tuberculosis Society. 'Employee' shall mean any Filipino
citizen in the service of an 'employer'. "
Sec. 2. Subsection (a) of section four of the same Act, as amended, is further amended to read as follows: "Sec. 4.
Scope of application of System. � (a) Membership in the System shall be
compulsory upon all regularly and permanently appointed employees,
including judges of the Courts of First Instance and those whose tenure
of office is fixed or limited by law; upon all teachers except only
those who are substitutes; upon all regular employees of the Philippine
Tuberculosis Society, and upon all regular officers and enlisted men of
the Armed Forces of the Philippines."
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect as of June sixteen, nineteen hundred and fifty-one. Approved: June 22, 1957 |