Applicability.
Article 206
ART. 206. Applicability. — This Title shall apply only to injury, sickness, disability or death occuring on or after January 1, 1975. SEC. 2. Title III of Book IV on Medicare of the same Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "ART. 207. Medical care. — The Philippine Medical Care Plan shall be implemented as provided under Republic Act Numbered sixty-one hundred eleven, as amended". SEC. 3. Article 331 of Chapter II of Book VII on Prescription of Offense and Claims of the same Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "ART. 331. Money claims. — All money claims arising from employer-employee relations accruing during the effectivity of this Code shall be filed within three (3) years from the time the cause of action accrued; otherwise they shall be forever barred. "All money claims accruing prior to the effectivity of this Code shall be filed with the appropriate entities established under this Code within one year from the date of such effectivity, and shall be processed or determined in accordance with the implementing rules and regulations of the Code; otherwise they shall be forever barred. "Workmen's compensation claims accruing prior to the effectivity of this Code and during the period from November 1, 1974 up to December 31, 1974, shall be filed with the appropriate regional offices of the Department of Labor not later than March 31, 1975; otherwise they shall be forever barred. These claims shall be processed and adjudicated in accordance with the law and rules at the time their causes of action accrued. SEC. 4. Article 335 of Chapter III of Book VII on Transitory and Final Provisions of the same Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "ART. 336. Bureau of Workmen's Compensation and Workmen's Compensation Commission. — The present Bureau of Workmen's Compensation, Workmen's Compensation Commission, and Workmen's Compensation Units in the Department of Labor shall continue to exist up to December 31 1975. Thereafter, said Offices shall be considered abolished and all officials and personnel thereof shall be transferred to and mandatorily absorbed by the Department of Labor, subject to Presidential Decree No. 6, Letters of Instructions No. 14 and 14-A and the Civil Service law and rules. "The salaries of the present officials and personnel of the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation, Workmen's Compensation Commission, and Workmen's Compensation Units in the regional offices of the Department of Labor shall be paid for the appropriations under Presidential Decree No 503 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975. Beginning- July 1, 1975, their salaries shall be paid from general appropriations." SEC. 5. Article 339 of Chapter III of Book VII on Transitory and Final Provisions of the same Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "ART. 339. Disposition of pending cases. — All cases pending before the Court of Industrial Relations and the National Labor Relations Commission established under Presidential Decree No. 21 on the date of effectivity of this Code shall be transferred to and processed by the corresponding labor relations division or the National Labor Commission created under this Code having cognizance of the same in accordance with the procedure laid down herein and its implementing rules and regulations. Cases on labor relations on appeal with the Secretary of Labor or the Office of the President of the Philippines as of the date of effectivity of this Code shall remain under their respective jurisdiction and shall be decided in accordance with the law, rules and regulation i n force at the time of appeal. "All workmen's compensation cases pending before the Workmen's Compensation Units in the regional offices of the Department of Labor and those pending before the Workmen's Compensation Commission as of March 31, 1975, shall be processed and adjudicated in accordance with the law, rules and procedure existing prior to the effectivity of the Employees' Compensation and State Insurance Fund." SEC. 6. The numbers of the Articles of the same Code shall be amended by renumbering them consecutively beginning with Art. 1. SEC. 7. This Decree shall take effect on January 1, 1975. Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four. (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR Executive Secretary