[ Act No. 3591, November 29, 1929 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO, AS AMENDED, OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.

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. Section eight hundred and seventy-two of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, as amended by Acts Numbered Thirty-one hundred and fifty-seven and Thirty-two hundred and five, is hereby further amended to read as follows:    

"SEC. 872. Sources of pension and retirement fund.—To this fund shall accrue all fines and forfeitures imposed by summary courts, all fines imposed upon commissioned officers under the authority of this chapter, and all sums accruing from vacancies in the authorized strength of officers and enlisted men, together with all other savings from positions the occupants whereof are or shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter, and four per centum of the pay of every officer and enlisted man of the Constabulary, which shall be deducted from said pay monthly.   

"All such sums accruing from fines, forfeitures, deductions, retentions, vacancies, and savings shall be noted and retained on the pay roll and deposited with the Insular Treasurer to the credit of the Constabulary pension and retirement fund." 

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 29, 1929.

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