Full Title
AN ACT TO FACILITATE THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF THE PUERICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS ORGANIZED IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
Congress
6th Philippine Legislature
Date of Approval
December 1, 1924

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance
Legislative Issuance Type
ACT
Subjects
Child Welfare
Puericulture Centers -- Government policy
Day Care Centers
Major Topic
Women's rights

Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 23 no. 6 page 74 (1/13/1925)

Full Text of Issuance

[ Act No. 3200, December 02, 1924 ]

AN ACT TO FACILITATE THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF THE PUERICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS ORGANIZED IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

Be  it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority  of the same:SECTION 1. Any organization  established for  the protection and care of mothers  and children in accordance with the  provisions  of Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred  and eighty-eight shall be exempt from the payment  of fees for the registration of  its articles of incorporation and by-laws.SEC. 2. Any of the property or funds belonging to puericultural institutions or institutions for the protection and care of mothers  and children which have received aid from the Insular Government, shall, upon recommendation of the Public Welfare Commissioner, become municipal, provincial or Insular property or funds in case such organization dissolve or cease to operate for five consecutive years.SEC. 3. Any nurse or midwife who is a graduate of a school of nursing or midwifery operated or recognized by the Government, and is employed by a puericultural institution, with  an  appointment duly approved by the Public Welfare Commissioner, shall be authorized to practice midwifery in the Philippine Islands while in the  service of such puericultural institution, and after one or more years of satisfactory service  during which she has shown skill and competency as midwife of such puericultural institution or of a hospital, maternity home or other  establishment under the supervision or control of a Bureau or office of the Insular Government, the Board of Medical  Examiners, upon recommendation and certificate of  competency by the Public Welfare Commissioner or the Director of Health, shall issue a certificate of registration as midwife upon the payment of ten pesos, without necessity  of any examination, any existing provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding.SEC. 4. All Acts inconsistent with the  provisions hereof are hereby repealed.SEC.  5. This Act shall take  effect on its approval.Approved, December 2, 1924.

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