Section 23
SEC. 23. Section thirty-two of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 32. Except as the Monetary Board may otherwise prescribe, the direct indebtedness to a savings and mortgage bank of any person, company, corporation or firm, including in the indebtedness of the company or firm, the indebtedness of the several members thereof, for money borrowed, excluding (a) loans secured by obligations of the Central Bank or of the Philippine Government, (b) loans fully guaranteed by the Government as to the payment of principal and interest, (c) loans to the extent covered by hold-out on, or assignment of, deposits maintained in the lending bank and held in the Philippines, and (d) other loans or credits as the Monetary Board may, from time to time, specify as non-risk assets, shall at no time exceed fifteen per cent (15%) of the unimpaired capital and surplus of the bank: Provided, however, That this limitation shall not apply to loans made under subsection (f) of Section thirty-one. "Loan accommodations granted by savings and mortgage banks to any other bank, as well as deposits maintained by them in any bank licensed to do business in the Philippines, shall be subject to the loan limit to any single borrower as herein prescribed."