REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2071 - AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE MORE EFFICIENT DENTAL CARE FOR THE PERSONNEL OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES," AS AMENDED BY REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED ELEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT.

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

SECTION 1. Section three of Republic Act Numbered Four hundred eighty-one is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 3. The Dental Service shall (1) establish professional standards and policies for the conduct of the Dental Service; (2) issue instructions and conduct inspections and surveys for the maintenance of such standards; (3) initiate and direct all actions relating to the dental service and pertaining to facilities, equipment, supplies, research, tables of organization, planning and personnel, including the appointment, training, classification, assignment, transfer, promotion and decoration of personnel; and (4) submit estimates of the amount of funds needed to maintain the Dental Service." SEC. 2. Section five of Republic Act Numbered Four hundred eighty-one, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 5. The number of officers of the Dental Service shall not be less than two officers for every thousand of the total strength of the AFP authorized from time to time. A separate roster for officers of the Dental Service shall be kept separate from the Medical Service. Hereafter the Dental Service shall consist of commissioned officers of the same grades and proportionately distributed among such grades as are now or may hereafter be provided for the Medical Corps, and who shall have the rank, pay and allowances of officers of corresponding grades in the medical corps." SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 13, 1958.