REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1129 - AN ACT CONVERTING THE ALBAY TRADE SCHOOL INTO A REGIONAL SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES OF SECONDARY AND COLLEGIATE LEVELS, TO BE KNOWN AS THE BICOL REGIONAL SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES, AND AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The Albay Trade School is converted into a regional school of arts and trades of the Northern Luzon School of Arts and Trades type, to be known as the Bicol Regional School of Arts and Trades. The said school shall under the supervision of the Bureau of Public Schools and subject to the provisions of the School Law. Courses of secondary and collegiate levels shall be offered in the said school.

SEC. 2. The sum of two hundred thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the operation and maintenance of the Bicol Regional School of Arts and Trades during the school year 1954-1955. Such sums as thereafter may be needed for the same purpose shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Act.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of Education is hereby empowered to make the necessary negotiations for the transfer without cost of such site, buildings, equipment, and other facilities of the Albay Trade School to the National Government, and to locate and acquire or cause to be located and acquired such additional site for the purpose of this Act which may be public or private lands situated within the Province of Albay.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 16, 1954.