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Republic Act No. 2615
An Act to Amend Certain Sections of Republic Act Numbered One Thousand One Hundred Seventy-Nine, Entitled "An Act to Provide for the Promotion of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Blind and Other Handicapped Persons and Their Return to Civil Employment," and to Create a National Council on Rehabilitation
Section 1. Subsection (b), section seven of Republic Act Numbered One thousand one hundred seventy-nine, is amended to read as follows:
"(b) Over-all supervision of the Pilot Adjustment and Training Center and all the regional training centers that may be established;"
Section 2. The second paragraph of subsection (c), section eight of Republic Act Numbered One thousand one hundred seventy-nine, is amended to read as follows:
"The Pilot Adjustment and Training Center and the regional training centers that may be established shall operate eight hours a day, five instruction days per week for a minimum duration of three months with individual extension possible up to a maximum of twelve months."
Section 3. Two new sections are inserted after section eight of Republic Act Numbered One thousand one hundred seventy-nine to read as follows:
"Regional Training Centers"
Sec. 8 - A . (1) Creation. -To ensure that vocational rehabilitation services shall benefit the blind and other handicapped in the provinces, there shall be established, in addition to the now existing Pilot Adjustment and Training Center at Barranca, Cubao, Quezon City, according to the period hereinafter specified suitable regional adjustment and training centers for vocational rehabilitation, as follows:
"For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty, Region No. 1, comprising the provinces of Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte, Abra, La Union, Mountain Province, Pangasinan, Zambales, Tarlac and the cities of Baguio and Dagupan, possibly in the regional headquarters at Dagupan City; and Region No. 7, comprising the Provinces of Misamis Occidental, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga del Norte and Sulu and the cities of Zamboanga, Ozamis and Basilan, possibly in the regional headquarters at Zamboanga City;
"For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-one, Region No. 4, comprising the provinces of Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Albay, Sorsogon, Catanduanes and Masbate and the City of Naga, possibly in the regional headquarters at Naga City; and Region No. 5, comprising the provinces of Negros Occidental, Romblon, Antique, Capiz, Aklan and Iloilo and the cities of Bacolod, Roxas and Iloilo, possibly in the regional headquarters at Iloilo City;
"For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-two, Region No. 2, comprising the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya and Batanes, possibly in the regional headquarters at Tuguegarao, Cagayan, and Region No. 8, comprising the provinces of Surigao, Bukidnon, Misamis Oriental, Lanao, Agusan, the cities of Davao, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro and Marawi, possibly in the regional headquarters at Cagayan de Oro City; and Region No. 9, comprising the provinces of Cotabato and Davao and the cities of Davao and Cotabato in the regional headquarters at Davao City.
"For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-three, Region No. 3, comprising the provinces of Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Bulacan, Bataan, Rizal, Quezon, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro, Marinduque and Palawan and the cities of Cabanatuan, Pasay, San Pablo, Tagaytay, Cavite, Trece Martires, Lipa, Quezon and Manila, possibly in San Pablo City; and Region No. 6, comprising the provinces of Negros Oriental, Bohol, Leyte, Samar and Cebu and the cities of Cebu, Dumaguete, Calbayog, Tacloban and Ormoc, possibly in the regional headquarters at Cebu City.
"(2) The establishment of these regional adjustment and training centers shall be at the cost of at least fifty thousand pesos each and shall be patterned after that of the first pilot project now in operation. The funds for these constructions may be drawn from the fiduciary funds of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. And the operating expenses of all existing rehabilitation centers under the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation shall be incorporated in the General Appropriation Act to be marked as "Special Purposes for Vocational Rehabilitation.—
"(3) The following shall compose the nucleus of the staff for such regional centers with the corresponding compensation:
"(a) One superintendent, at ₱3,984 per annum, range ₱43
"(b) One clerk, at ₱1,476 per annum, range ₱23
"(c) One intake social worker, at ₱1,884 per annum, range ₱28
"(d) One social worker, at ₱1,884 per annum, range ₱28
"(e) One homebound social worker, at ₱1,884 per annum, range ₱28
"(f) Two vocational counselors, at ₱1,884 per annum, range ₱28
"(g) One part-time physician, at ₱1,800 per annum, range ₱27
"(h) One chief instructor, at ₱3,108 per annum, range ₱38—40
"(i) One Braille instructor at ₱1,716 per annum, range ₱24—32
"(j) One travel technique instructor at ₱1,716 per annum, range ₱24—32
"(k) One craft instructor, at ₱1,716 per annum, range ₱24—32
"(l) One rural project instructor, at ₱1,716 per annum, ₱24—32
"(m) One clerk-laborer, at ₱1,152 per annum, range ₱18
"(n) One caretaker, at ₱1,152 per annum, range ₱18
"(o) One guard-driver, at ₱1,440 per annum, range ₱22
"The compensation for the staff of the regional centers shall be drawn from the fiduciary fund of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation which are its net proceeds from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes draw as stipulated in section ten (b) of Republic Act Numbered One thousand one hundred seventy-nine.
"National Council on Rehabilitation
Section 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: August 1, 1959.