SECTION 1. Section six hundred and ninety-nine of Act civil Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 699. Allowances in case of injury, death, or sickness incurred in performance of duty.—When a person in the Philippine civil service or in the service of the government of a municipality or municipal district is so inured in the performance of duty as thereby to receive some actual physical hurt or wound, the proper Head of Department may direct that absence during any period of disability thereby occasioned shall be on full pay, though not for more than six months, and in such case he may in his discretion also authorize the payment of the medical attendance, necessary transportation, subsistence, and hospital fees of the injured person. Absence in the case contemplated shall be charged first against vacation leave, if any there be.
"If a person in such service is killed or dies of injuries received or sickness contracted in line of duty, the Department head may authorize the payment of reasonable burial expenses and of three months' salary or wages to the widow or dependent child or children of such deceased person, which shall be in accord with his efficiency and service to the Government.
"In case sickness follows as a direct and immediate consequence of the performance of some act in the line of duty the Department head may in his discretion authorize the payment of the necessary hospital fees.
"For employees of the City of Manila the time allowance and disbursements contemplated above shall not be granted except upon recommendation of the Municipal Board of the city, with the prior approval of the Secretary of the Interior; in the case of employees of a provincial government, upon the recommendation of the provincial board; and in the case of employees of a municipal or municipal district government, upon the recommendation of the municipal council or municipal district president, as the case may be."