Special groups.
Section 5
SEC. 5. Special groups.—Positions not subject to classification by the board shall constitute the special groups, as follows: Executive group.—The positions included in this -group and their annual rates of compensation are: The Department Secretaries, the Secretary to the President, and the Commissioner of the Budget, at twelve thousand pesos per annum each; The Undersecretaries of Department, the Commissioner of Civil Service, the Commissioner for Mindanao and Sulu, the Commissioner of Health and Welfare, the Assistant Secretary to the President, and the Deputy Auditor General, at nine thousand pesos per annum each; The Solicitor-General and the Securities and Exchange Commissioner, at eleven thousand pesos per annum each; The Directors of Animal Industry, Commerce, Education, Forestry, Health, Lands, Mines, Prisons, National Library, Plant Industry, Posts, Printing, Public Welfare, Public Works, Science, Aeronautics, and Coast and Geodetic Survey; the Bank Commissioner; the Insular Collector of Customs, the Collector of Internal Revenue, the Treasurer of the Philippines, the Chief of the General Land Registration Office, and the Manager of the National Information Board, at seven thousand two hundred pesos per annum each: Provided, That when there is appropriation available, the President may authorize the payment of additional compensation of not more than eighteen hundred pesos per annum each to the Director of Public Works, the Director of Mines, the Insular Collector of Customs, the Collector of Internal Revenue, and the Treasurer of the Philippines; The Director of Labor, the Director of the Weather Bureau, the Director of Private Education, the Director of Adult Education, the Director of the Institute of National Language, the National Physical Director, the Assistant Solicitors-General of the Bureau of Justice, the Deputy Commissioner of Civil Service, the Assistant Bank Commissioner and the Assistant Directors of the bureaus mentioned in sub-paragraph (4) hereof, at six thousand pesos per annum; Judicial Group.—The positions included in this group and their annual rates of compensations are: The Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals, at thirteen thousand pesos per annum; The Associate Justices of the Court of Appeals, at twelve thousand pesos per annum each; The District Judges of the Court of First Instance, at ten thousand pesos per annum each; The Judges-at-large of the Courts of First Instance, at nine thousand pesos per annum each; The Senior Judge of the Court of Industrial Relations, at eleven thousand pesos per annum: Two other Judges of the Court of Industrial Relations, at ten thousand pesos each per annum; The Public Service Commissioner, at eleven thousand pesos per annum; The Deputy Public Service Commissioner, at nine thousand pesos per annum; The justices of the peace of the capital of the first class provinces, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; the justices of the peace of the capital of the second class provinces at three thousand pesos per annum each; the justices of the peace of the capital of the third class provinces, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum each; and the justices of the peace of all other provincial capitals, including the capitals of sub-provinces, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum each; The justices of the peace of first-class municipalities, from one thousand two hundred to one thousand four hundred forty pesos per annum each; the justices of the peace of second class municipalities, from one thousand eighty to one thousand two hundred pesos per annum each; the justices of the peace of third class and fourth class municipalities, municipal districts and other places not specially provided for by law, from nine hundred and sixty to one thousand eighty pesos per annum each: Provided, That the Secretary of Justice shall, with the approval of the President, fix the salary of each justice of the peace within the above limitations, taking into consideration, among other things, the number of cases docketed in his court and the accessibility and means of transportation available between the different municipalities under his jurisdiction: Provided, further, That when a justice of the peace is appointed to act as justice of the peace of a district composed of two or more municipalities, or when he is designated to act temporarily in one or more municipalities in addition to his own municipality or district, in the first case, he shall be entitled to the salary of the largest municipality in his district, plus seventy-five per centum of the salary for the other municipality or municipalities therein; and, in the second case, he shall be entitled to the full salary of his municipality or district, plus seventy-five per centum of the salary for each municipality in which he is temporarily designated to act; but in no case shall he be entitled to an aggregate salary of more than two thousand and four hundred pesos per annum: And, provided, finally, That the capital of a province shall not be grouped with any municipality.