Section 22
SEC. 22. Section six hundred and ninety-four of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 694. Removal or suspension.—No officer or employee in the civil service shall be removed or suspended except for cause as provided by law. "The President of the Philippines may suspend any chief or assistant chief of a bureau or office, and in the absence of special provision, any other officer appointed by him, pending an investigation of charges against such officer or pending an investigation of his bureau or office. With the approval of the proper head of department, the chief of a bureau or office may likewise suspend any subordinate or employee in his bureau or under his authority pending an investigation, if the charge against such subordinate or employee involves dishonesty, oppression, or grave misconduct or neglect in the performance of duty."