CA 139 Section 1

Section 1

SECTION 1. Section four of Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and twenty-one is hereby amended, so as to place the administration of existing Philippine immigration laws under the jurisdiction and executive supervision of the Department of Labor, to read as follows: "SEC. 4. Bureaus and offices under the Department of Labor. — The Department of Labor shall have executive supervision over the Bureau of Labor, the Office of the Inspector General of Labor, and all bureaus, divisions and offices hereafter created concerning labor alone or labor in its relation with capital, and also the proper enforcement of all laws relative to labor and capital in the Philippines and over all other matters related with the welfare of the Filipino laborers in this country and abroad. It shall also have executive supervision over matters concerning the administration of existing Philippine Immigration Laws."

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