Living quarters allowances.
SECTION 1. Living quarters allowances.—
The Secretary is authorized, in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe with the approval of the President, to grant living quarters allowances to any officer or employee in the service assigned abroad, who is a citizen of the Philippines. Such allowances may be revised as to amounts not oftener than once a year by the Secretary with the approval of. the President.
Living quarters allowances shall be granted at a per annum rate and shall be computed and paid semi monthly beginning with the first or sixteenth day of the month, following the arrival of the payee at his post of assignment. On transfer from post, allowances shall cease on the first or sixteenth day of the month, following departure therefrom. Quarters allowances are designed to enable personnel to whom they are granted to live in a manner befitting their representative capacities and must not be used to augment salaries. For the first three months after arrival at post, the maximum amount is payable,after which only actual expenditures for rental of suitable residential quarters, including expenses for quarters, heating light, fuel, gas, telephone and maintenance, if these items are not included in the contract of lease, may be paid and each reimbursement voucher must contain these
data under oath.
Where government-owned, furnished and heated quarters are available, no living quarters allowances shall be paid to persons occupying such quarters. No allowances shall be paid for quarters occupied free or under arrangements with other parties permitting direct or indirect gain to the claimant or his family.
If a person entitled to living quarters allowances occupies quarters owned by him, his wife or children, he shall be entitled to a quarters allowance equal to the rental value of the quarters, not to exceed the maximum allowance authorized for him. The principal officer shall certify the rental value on the reimbursement voucher.
No residence may receive for more one residence which must be at or within daily commuting distance of his post of assignment. Allowances shall continue when the allottee is detailed by the Secretary or his principal officer to duty away from his post of assignment, for a period not to exceed six months, beginning with the first day of the month following departure.
Persons entitled to per diems.
SECTION 1. Persons entitled to per diems.—All officers and employees of the service on travel status or on assignment outside their regular posts shall be entitled to per diems at such amounts as the Secretary, with the approval of the President, may prescribe by regulation: Provided, however, That no per diem shall exceed sixty pesos in any case without the specific authorization of the President.
Class of transportation.
SECTION 1. Class of transportation.—
All officers and employees of the service shall be entitled to minimum first class transportation by any usual means of public transportation for themselves, their wives and dependent minor children, not exceeding- three in number, whenever such travel is duly authorized by the Secretary: Provided, however, That this restriction shall not apply to the minor dependents in excess of three of any officer or employee already in the service of the Department of Foreign Affairs on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty. For local travel away from post but within the district of assignment by any member of the staff, authority for such travel may be granted by the principal officer present at the post.
Whenever deemed necessary due to high cost of living or to unhealthy conditions obtaining at the post of assignment abroad, the wife or husband of any officer or employee in the Foreign Service and her or his children, including their reasonable personal effects, may upon request of the parties concerned be allowed minimum first-class return transportation to Manila at the expense of the Government. This privilege may be extended to unmarried dependent children of the officer or employee concerned who become of age (21 years old) while living with their parents abroad.
This privilege may be granted only once. Any member of the family (wife, husband, or unmarried children) of any officer or employee who returns to the Philippines in the manner provided in paragraph (6) above and who may want to rejoin later the officer or employee abroad either at the post whence such member of the family came, or at another post in the same country to which the officer or employee has been subsequently transferred, shall not be allowed official transportation for the proposed trip. Should such member rejoin the parent-officer or employee abroad, even at his own expense, such member shall not be entitled thereafter to official return transportation to the Philippines.
Loan of household equipment.
SECTION 1. Loan of household equipment.—The Secretary may, if he shall find it in the interest of the Government to do so as a means of eliminating transportation cost, provide officers and employees of the service with household equipment for use on a loan basis in personally owned or leased residences.
Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).
