Gratuity.
Section 16
SEC. 16. Gratuity.—Any personnel of the dissolved agencies who is not appointed to a position in the Authority for reasons not attributable to his conduct, or who elects to discontinue his service, shall be paid the money value of his accumulated vacation and sick leave and, if qualified to retire under existing laws, his retirement gratuities. Otherwise, he shall be paid on month salary for every year of service in the government. For this purpose, the sum of ten million pesos in hereby appropriated out of the funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated exclusively for the payment of the aforesaid separation and retirement gratuities and accumulated vacation and sick leaves.