RA 708 (Foreign Service Act of the Philippines) TITLE IV.—Personnel Administration

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Board of the Foreign Service.

Section 1

SECTION 1. Board of the Foreign Service.— There shall be a Board of the Foreign Service composed of the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, as chairman, and the Counselors of the different offices of the Department, as members. The principal duty of the Board of the Foreign Service shall be to make recommendations concerning the functions and operations of the Foreign Service, the policies and procedures to govern the selection, assignment, and promotion of Foreign Affairs Officers and of Foreign Service staff officers and employees, and the policies and procedures to govern the administration and personnel management of the Foreign Service. It shall definitively establish the efficiency ratings of Foreign Service personnel, except alien clerks and employees in the Foreign Service, and shall perform such other duties as are assigned to it by this Act or any other Act or any executive order or regulation issued pursuant to law. An efficiency report, as shall be prescribed by the Secretary, shall be submitted to the Board in April of ach year by the head of each office abroad on subordinate officers and employees of the service, except alien clerks and employees; by the chiefs of mission on the heads of offices; and by the Secretary on Foreign Affairs Officers assigned or on detail in the Department. Efficiency reports shall be rated "unsatisfactory", "satisfactory", "good", "very good", and "excellent". The Board shall certify all ratings to the Secretary not later than the first day of June of each year. Officers rated by the Board as "unsatisfactory" or "satisfactory" shall be notified by the Board wherein they are deficient. Those rated "unsatisfactory" shall in addition be warned that a subsequent consecutive similar rating may result in their separation from the service. No member of the Board shall, while acting as such member, intervene in any way in the selection, assignment, or promotion of himself or any relative of his within the fourth civil degree either by consanguinity or affinity, nor shall he interest himself, directly or indirectly, in such selection, assignment, or promotion. The Secretary shall assign to the Board such employees as may be necessary to assist it in the efficient performance of its functions.

Foreign Affairs Officers— For old age.

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SECTION 1. Foreign Affairs Officers— For old age.— Any Foreign Affairs Officer who has reached the age of sixty-five years shall be separated from the service, but whenever the President shall determine that an emergency exists, he may, in the public interest, extend such an officer's service for a period not to exceed five years. For disloyalty to the Government, unsatisfactory performance of duty, misconduct, or malfeasance.—The president, upon recommendation of the Secretary, may separate from the service any Foreign Affairs Officer on account of disloyalty to the Government, unsatisfactory performance of duty, misconduct or malfeasance in office; but no such officer shall be separated from the service until he shall have been granted a hearing before the Board of the Foreign Service and his disloyalty to the Government, unsatisfactory performance of duty, misconduct, or malfeasance in office shall have been established at such hearing.

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