Section 4
SEC. 4. Section 4, Republic Act Numbered Thirty-six Hundred and One, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4. Board of Directors. — The powers and functions of the National Irrigation Administration shall be exercised by a Board of Directors composed of six members, to wit: The Secretary of Public Works, Transportation and Communications, who shall be the Chairman, the Administrator of the National Irrigation Administration, who shall be the Vice-Chairman, the Director General of the National Economic and Development Authority, the Secretary of Agriculture, the General Manager of the National Power Corporation, and one member who shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines on recommendation of any national rice and corn organization of good standing and who shall serve for a term of four years unless sooner removed. In the case of failure of a member to attend meetings of the Board due to physical incapacity or any temporary disability, the Undersecretary or the Assistant Head of the office or agency to which the member concerned belongs, shall attend the meetings of the board, with the power to vote. For actual attendance at regular meetings, each member of the Board or his representative as authorized in the preceding paragraph, shall receive a per diem of three hundred pesos, and one hundred pesos for special meetings, but the total amount of per diem that a member may receive in a month shall in no case exceed one thousand five hundred pesos. The Board shall fix the amount of representation and transportation allowances that the members may receive."