EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 367
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 367 - THER
AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 129 DATED MAY 6, 1968, AS AMENDED BY
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 421, DATED NOVEMBER 26, 1973
I,
CORAZON B. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the
powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:
Section 1. Sec. 7, Title I of Executive Order No.
129 is hereby amended to read as follows:
“Sec.
7. Clothing Allowance. — The grantee or trainee shall
be granted clothing allowance of $400 for temperate and $300 for
tropical zones for the duration of 24 months and below. The clothing
allowance shall not be granted more often than once every twenty-four
(24) months and a certification that no clothing allowance has been
received during the next preceding twenty-four (24) months shall be
submitted together with the request. In cases where the clothing
allowance previously received by the grantee or trainee concerned was
less than the clothing allowance for the subsequent trip, or when the
clothing allowance being granted by the donor is less than the clothing
allowance indicated herein, he may be granted the difference.”
Sec. 2. Section 12 of Title I of the Executive
Order No. 129 is hereby amended to read, as follows:
“Sec.
12. Obligations of a grantee or trainee. — In
consideration of his acceptance of a foreign scholarship/training
grant, the grantee or trainee binds himself to the following conditions:
a.
To live up to the terms and conditions of his grant;
b. To conduct
himself in such a manner as not to bring disgrace or dishonor to
himself or to his country;
c. To keep up
with the standards of scholarship or accomplishments;
d. To submit
to the head of his office and the Committee his official transcript of
grades at the close of each quarter, nor semester;
e. To return
immediately upon the termination of his scholarship/training;
f. To submit
to the head of his office and the Committee a report on his
study/training within sixty (60) days after his return to duty;
g. To submit a
re-entry plan or proposal for the application of newly-acquired skills
or expertise to his Office and the Committee, upon completion of at
least six (6) months study/training; and
h. To serve
his Office or any other government office or instrumentality as the
exigencies of the service may require, for the specified period
indicated below:
Training
Nature
Training Duration of Service
Scholarship
Obligation
For academic
non- For every year or a 2 years
academic
programs, fraction thereof not less
including
extensions than 6 months
A fraction of
a year less 1 year
than 6 months
but not less
than 2 months
A fraction of
a year less 6 months
than 2 months
Failure of the grantee or trainee to fulfill obligations provided under
subparagraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section shall be sufficient
cause for the cancellation of his scholarship/training grant and for
his recall. Should failure in any of such cases be due to his own fault
or willful neglect, he shall refund all expenses in accordance with the
provisions of the succeeding subparagraphs of this Section .
For failure to render the required length of service referred to in
subparagraph (h) of this Section , on account of voluntary resignation,
retirement, separation from the service through his own fault or other
causes within his control, the grantee or trainee shall refund in full
to his agency such amount as may have been defrayed for expenses
incident to his scholarship/training as determined by the Committee.
The obligations of grantees or trainees affected/displaced by the
reorganization of their respective departments shall be governed by the
herein attached (‘Obligation of Scholars Displaced by Reorganization,”
which is made an integral part of this Executive Order.
It is the policy of the Committee to allow proportionate refund of the
monetary value of the grantee’s or trainee’s service obligation, when
he has served at least 75% of the total service obligation in the
agency/department which sent him abroad.
The proportionate amount and mode of payment shall be determined by the
agency and confirmed by the Special Committee on Scholarships. In such
cases, the amount shall be paid within three (3) years from the
effectivity of the arrangement between the grantee or trainee and his
agency, and to the execution of the affidavit of undertaking duly
secured by a bond with his agency/department.
A condonation of the agency/department concerned may be allowed only in
the following cases:
a.
Abolition of the Office or involuntary phase-out of the trainee or
grantee in a reorganized office; and
b. Death or
permanent disability. The Committee may impose such other penalties as
it may deem necessary for failure of the grantee or trainee to fulfill
other obligations provided under this Section .”
Sec. 3. Section 16 of Executive Order No. 129,
dated November 26, 1973, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
“Sec.
16. Clothing Allowance and per diem. — Officials and
employees authorized to travel abroad under this Title shall be granted
clothing allowance and per diem as follows:
a)
The Department Secretaries; the Executive Secretary; the Cabinet
Secretary; other officials with Cabinet rank; the Chairman, Commission
on Audit; the Chairman, Commission on Elections; the Chairman, Civil
Service Commission; the Director-General, National Economic and
Development Authority; the Legal Adviser to the President; the
Legislative Secretary; the Deputy Directors-General and Assistant
Directors-General, National Economic and Development Authority; the
Department Undersecretaries; ambassadors, ambassadors extraordinary and
plenipotentiary; the Deputy Executive Secretary; the Undersecretary,
Presidential Management Staff; the Assistant Executive Secretaries; the
Department Assistant Secretaries; the Solicitor General; the
Commissioners, Commission on Elections; the Commissioners, Civil
Service Commission; the Commissioners, Merit Systems Protection Board;
the Government Corporate Counsel; the Managing Director, National
Computer Center; the President, University of the Philippines and the
presidents of other state universities; the Chairman of governing
boards and the general managers or the managing heads of
government-owned or controlled corporations; heads of delegations with
fill powers; and other officials of similar or equivalent rank.
Clothing
Allowance $100.00
Per Diem
$300.00
b)
The Vice-Chairman and members of the governing boards and councils and
the assistant general managers or other assistant managing heads of
government- owned or controlled corporations; career ministers;
directors of bureaus and bureau-level offices; assistant directors of
bureaus and bureau-level offices; general officers of the Armed Forces
of the Philippines; vice-presidents of state universities; and other
officials of similar or equivalent rank.
Clothing
Allowance $300.00
Per Diem
$ 80.00
c) The heads
of primary units and officials of equivalent rank in the Executive
Department, the Constitutional Commissions, and Government-owned or
controlled corporations; filed grade officers of the Armed Forces of
the Philippines; foreign service officers; heads of state colleges and
deans of colleges of the University of the Philippines; and other
officials similar or equivalent rank.
Clothing
Allowance $250.00
Per Diem
$ 70.00
d) All other
employees.
Clothing
Allowance $250.00
Per Diem
$ 60.00
In
addition to the aforementioned clothing allowance and per diem, members
of the Cabinet and persons holding other positions of equivalent rank
shall also be entitled to reasonable expenses of $80.00 per day.
The per diem herein provided for
shall be granted only for the duration for the official trip, including
travel time as denied in Sec. 20 hereof.”
Sec. 4. Sec. 21. Title III of Executive Order
No. 129 is hereby to read as follows:
“Sec.
21. Pre-Travel Expenses. — The grantee or trainee
shall be provided allowance of P600.00 for local transportation fares
to and from and within Metro Manila; medical examination; processing
for the issuance of passport and travel tax exemption including
incidental expenses for photographs, affidavits, certificate of birth
and other related expenses; airport expenses including fees for excess
baggage; and local porterage at customary rates.”
Sec. 5. The Special Committee on Scholarships in
coordination with the Department of Budget and Management shall conduct
periodic review of the rates of allowances, per diem and other expenses
mentioned in the preceding sections for its implementation. The
Committee tasked with the administration and enforcement of Executive
Order No. 129, as amended, shall promulgate the necessary implementing
rules and regulations. Such rules and regulations shall become
effective fifteen (15) days after publication in a newspaper of general
circulation.
Sec. 6. This Executive Order shall take effect
immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 21st day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-nine.
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