Full Title
AN ACT TRANSFERRING THE MEDICAL AND DENTAL SERVICES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
Congress
2nd Congress of the Republic
Senate Bill No.
S. No. 388
Legislative History
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Date of Approval
May 23, 1953

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance
Legislative Issuance Type
Republic Act
Bill Note
Senate Bill Only
Subjects
Education, Department of (DepEd) -- Medical and dental services
Medical and Dental Services
Major Topic
Education

Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 49 no. 5 page 1760 (5/00/1953)

Full Text of Issuance

S. No. 388 / 49 OG No. 5, 1760 (May, 1953)

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 847, May 23, 1953 ]

AN ACT TRANSFERRING THE MEDICAL AND DENTAL SERVICES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: SECTION 1. The Medical and Dental Services in the Public Schools which is now functioning as a division of Bureau of Health, since January first, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, is hereby transferred or returned back the Department of Education as a division of that Department where it originally belonged from nineteen hundred and forty-six to nineteen hundred and fifty: Provided, That the supervision of hygiene and sanitation shall be exercised by the Department of Health. SEC. 2. All laws, acts, executive orders, or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provision of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Enacted on May 23, 1953, without the Executive approval.

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