Section 2
SECTION 2. Authority to use Savings for other Purposes. The President of the Philippines is authorized to use any savings in the appropriations provided in this Decree for the Executive Departments, for the settlement of the following obligations in the Executive Departments incurred during the budget year: (a) Payment of gratuity or separation pay of employees who are entitled thereto under existing law or are laid off as a result of the elimination of their positions under this Decree; (b) Payment of the share of the National Government in the salaries of national officials and employees in newly created and/or reclassified cities and provinces where nor appropriations have been provided in this Decree or where the authorized appropriations are not sufficient to cover the salaries of the said officials and employees; (c) Payment of hazard pay to officials and employees who are actually assigned to danger or strife-torn areas as may be determined by the Philippine Constabulary. The additional compensation herein provided shall not be less than P50 nor more than P150 per month, and shall be granted to those actually performing their duties in areas of conflict and only for the duration of existence of such peril; (d) Deficiencies in the regular appropriations for the opening of additional elementary and secondary classes; (e) Improvement of the social and economic opportunities and such other activities intended for the welfare of the national minorities as may be undertaken by the Office of the Presidential Assistant on National Minorities; (f) Hosting of international conferences and attendance of officials ion such conferences held abroad; (g) Rural improvements and community development, such as feeder roads, artesian wells, spring development, river and flood control, sea walls, communal irrigation, schoolhouses, wooden bridges, environmental sanitation, and other agricultural and health projects that will promote the economic well-being of the rural areas; (h) Organization, activation, training and operation of military engineering units, including pay and allowances of all military personnel assigned thereto and for the purpose of implementing agency development projects in areas adversely affected by peace and order problems; (i) Food production, housing, sea farming, the "blue revolution", reforestation, and other activities of similarly high priority; (j) Payment of obligations of the National Government or any of its departments or agencies arising from perfected contracts and international agreements; (k) Payment to the Government Service Insurance System of annual life insurance premiums of barrio captains and councilmen under R.A. No. 4898; (l) Purchase of equipment, including motor vehicles, to replace those that may be lost through theft or robbery, accident, fire or typhoon and other natural calamities, to replace unserviceable ones condemned by the Commission on Audit, and for expansion of facilities as may be approved by the President, subject to the provisions of Letter of Implementation No. 29; (m)Implementation of the provisions of Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972 and all Presidential Orders, Decrees and Instructions issued as a consequence of said Proclamation.