Section 3
SEC. 3. Paragraph (c) of section four of Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and ninety-one, otherwise known as the "Armed Forces Officer Personnel Act of Nineteen hundred and forty-eight," as amended by Republic Act Numbered Four hundred and eighty, is hereby further amended to read as follows; "(c) Except as hereinafter authorized or unless otherwise expressly provided by law, all initial appointments of Regular Officers shall be in the grade of second lieutenant. Priority in filling vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant will be given: first, to graduates of the Philippine Military Academy or of the United States Military or Naval Academies, or Philippine Air Force or United States Air Force Flying Schools; second, to honor graduates of senior military training units in schools and colleges; third, to enlisted men who, at the time of appointment; shall have served for at least one full term of enlistment in the Armed Forces of the Philippines and have such other qualifications as may be prescribed by the Secretary of National Defense; and fourth, others shall have such qualifications as the Secretary of National Defense shall prescribe: Provided, That original Continents in the Judge Advocate General's Service, the Chaplain Service, the Medical Corps, and the Dental Corps hall be in the grade of first lieutenant from among applicants who, at the time of appointment, shall be not less than twenty-five nor more than thirty-five years of age, and in addition shall have engaged in the practice of law for at least two years, if appointment is to be made in the Judge Advocate General's Service; shall have engaged in the practice of the ministry or priesthood for at least two years, if appointment is made in the Chaplain Service; and shall have engaged in the practice of medicine or dentistry for at least two years, .if appointment is to be made in the Medical Corps or Dental Corps, as the case may be: Provided, further, That the President may appoint professors without military rank for the Military Academy, with such compensation as he may prescribe or in such commissioned grades of the Regular Force as he may determine, such professors, associate professors and assistant professors, to be carried as separate roster and in addition to the number of commissioned officers prescribed."