Full Title
AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS AS COMPENSATION TO THE WIDOWS AND/OR LEGITIMATE CHILDREN OF GOVERNMENT OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES IN THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT WHO DIED IN THE AIR CRASHES IN THE PROVINCE OF CEBU AND AT ILIGAN BAY.
Congress
3rd Congress of the Republic
House Bill No.
H. No. 7350
Legislative History
Request for e-copy
Date of Approval
June 22, 1957

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance
Legislative Issuance Type
Republic Act
Bill Note
House Bill Only
Subjects
Mother’s pension
Widows pensions
Widow’s share
Survivors’ benefits
Spouse’s share
Major Topic
Women's rights

Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 53 no. 18 page 6056 (9/30/1957)

Full Text of Issuance

H. No. 7350 / 53 OG No. 18, 6056 (September 30, 1957

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1883, June 22, 1957 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS AS COMPENSATION TO THE WIDOWS AND/OR LEGITIMATE CHILDREN OF GOVERNMENT OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES IN THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT WHO DIED IN THE AIR CRASHES IN THE PROVINCE OF CEBU AND AT ILIGAN BAY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:SECTION 1. The widows and/or legitimate children of every officer or employee of the Government in the Executive Department who died as a result of the air crash in the Province of Cebu on March seventeen, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and the air crash at Iligan Bay on October three, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, shall granted compensation equivalent to the salary for two years of their deceased husbands and/or legitimate fathers, the same not to be subject to attachment, levy, execution or any tax whatsoever.SEC. 2. Such sum as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act is appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated.SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.Approved, June 22, 1957.

Source: Supreme Court E-Library