PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 176 - AN
ACT TO CREATE A NATIONAL COMMISSION ON EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND
CULTURAL MATTERS |
Section
1. There is hereby created a National Commission on
Educational, Scientific and Cultural matters, hereinafter referred to
as the "Commission," to be composed of not more than fifteen members as
the President of the Philippines may from time to time appoint with the
consent of the Commission on Appointments of the Congress of the
Philippines. Government officials designated to serve in the Commission
shall serve without additional compensation, but private citizens
appointed to sit in the Commission shall receive actual subsistence and
traveling expenses from their residence to the meetings of the
Commission and return, as well as such per diems for each day of
session of the Commission or any of its committees or subcommittees
actually attended by them in such amount as may be determined by the
President. The Commission shall, for administrative purposes, be under
the Office of the President of the Philippines. Sec. 2. The Commission shall have the following powers and duties: 1. To meet as frequently as possible, but at least once quarterly, on such date or dates which it may designate. 2. To act in an advisory capacity to the Government of the Philippines as well as to its delegations to the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in matters relating to the Organization; function as an agency of liaison between the Government of the Philippines and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; and to associate the principal bodies in the Philippines interested in educational, scientific and cultural matters with the work of the Organization, in accordance with Article VII of the Constitution of the aforesaid Organization accepted by Joint Resolution Numbered Three of the Congress of the Philippines of October seventeen, nineteen hundred and forty-six. 3. To call annual or biennial general conferences on educational, scientific and cultural matters in which all national voluntary organizations actively interested in such matters shall be invited to send representatives: Provided, however, That no representative to the conference shall represent more than one organization. Such conferences shall be attended so far as possible by the members of the National Commission and by the delegates of the Philippines to the General Conference of the UNESCO. 4. To study and report on such educational, scientific and cultural matters as may from time to time be submitted to its consideration by the President of the Philippines.
Sec. 3. The Commission shall, with the approval of
the President, designate from among its members an Executive Committee,
and shall divide itself into three permanent Committees, namely: the
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Committees. Each committee, in
turn, may subdivide itself into as many subcommittees as it may deem
necessary for the division of its work. In the selection of the members
of each committee or subcommittee, due account shall be taken of the
professional skill and experience of the individual members of the
Commission.
Sec. 6. The Cultural Committee shall undertake all
work of the Commission relating to cultural matters, and specifically: Sec. 7. The amount of one hundred thousand pesos or so much thereof as might be necessary is hereby appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Sec. 8. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval. Approved: June 20, 1947 |