REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3580 - AN ACT TO FURTHER THE MODERNIZATION PROGRAM OF THE GENERAL AUDITING OFFICE AND TO MAKE FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR THIS PURPOSE.

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3580, June 21, 1963 ]

AN ACT TO FURTHER THE MODERNIZATION PROGRAM OF THE GENERAL AUDITING OFFICE AND TO MAKE FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR THIS PURPOSE.

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

SECTION 1. The Auditor General is hereby authorized to pursue further its modernization program by reorganizing" and expanding the Program Audit Department and the Audit Methods and Training Staff of the General Auditing Office to include in their operations the program audit of local governments, development of auditing personnel, and improvement of auditing, accounting, and other fiscal procedures and practices that are the responsibilities of the General Auditing Office under existing laws, and for this purpose there is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of throe hundred sixty-four thousand three hundred four pesos, as follows:

I.—PERSONAL SERVICES

A. For new positions:

PROGRAM AUDIT DEPARTMENT

Office of the Manager

One Chief Supervising Auditor at P8,400 per annum P8,400

One Auditor at P5,100 per annum , 5,100

One Stenographer at P3,720 per annum 3,720

One Driver at P2,400 per annum 2,400

One Janitor at P1,680 per annum 1,680

One Laborer at PI,680 per annum 1,680

Program Audit Division for Local Governments

One Chief Supervising Auditor at P8,400 per annum 8,400

One Auditor at P7.800 per annum 7,800

One Auditor at P6.888 per annum 6,888

One Auditor at P5,700 per annum 5,700

One Auditor at P5,100 per annum 5,100

Two Auditors at P4,200 each per annum 8,400

Two Auditing Examiners at P8,600 each per annum 7,200

Two Auditing Examiners at P3,300 each per annum

6,600

Program Audit Division I

One Chief Supervising Auditor at P8,400 per annum 8,400

One Auditor at P7,800 per annum 7,800

One Auditor at P6,888 per annum 6,888

One Auditor at P5,700 per annum 5,700

One Auditor at P5,100 per annum 5,100

One Auditor at P4,200 per annum 4,200

One Auditing Examiner at P3,600 per annum 3,600

One Auditing Examiner at P3,300 per annum 3,300

Program Audit Division II

One Chief Supervising Auditor at P8,400 per annum 8,400

One Auditor at P7,800 per annum 7,800

One Auditor at P5,700 per annum 5,700

One Auditor at P5,100 per annum 5,100

One Auditor at P4,200 per annum 4,200

One Auditing Examiner at P3,600 per annum 3,600

One Auditing Examiner at P3,300 per annum 3,300

Income Examination Division

Chief Supervising Auditor at P8,400 per annum 8,400

One Auditor at P6,888 per annum 6,888

One Auditor at P5,700 per annum 5,700

One Auditor at P5,100 per annum 5,100

One Auditor at P4,200 per annum 4,200

One Auditing Examiner at P3,600 per annum 3,600

One Auditing Examiner at P3,300 per annum 3,300

AUDIT METHODS AND TRAINING STAFF

Training Branch

Two Auditors at P6,000 each per annum 12,000

One Clerk-Typist at P2,400 per annum 2,400

One Duplicating Equipment Operator at P2,400 per annum 2,400

One Janitor at P1,680 per annum 1,680

One Laborer at P1,680 per annum 1,680

Methods and Systems Branch

Three Auditors at P6,000 each per annum 18,000

Three Auditors at P4,800 each per annum 14,400

One Clerk-Typist at P2,400 per annum 2,400

Research Branch

Two Auditors at 1M.800 each per annum 9,600

One Clerk-Typist at P2,400 per annum 2,400

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Total for new positions

P266,304

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B. Government share in employees' life and retirement insurance premiums 26,000

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Total for Personal Services

P292,304

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II.—MAINTENANCE AND OTHER OPERATING EXPENSES

Travel expenses P30,000

Rentals 12,000

Sundries 10,000

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Total for Maintenance and other Operating Expenses

P52,000

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III.—FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT

Equipment Outlay P20,000

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IV.—SUMMARY

Total for personal services P292,304

Total for maintenance and other operating expenses 52,000

Total for furniture and equipment 20,000

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Total Appropriation

P364,304

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SEC. 2. The sum necessary for the succeeding fiscal years shall be included in the appropriations for the General Auditing Office in the annual General Appropriation Acts.

SEC 3. This Act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundred sixty-three.

Approved, June 21, 1963.