Classification under this Act.
Section 5
SEC. 5. Classification under this Act.—Upon the approval of this Act and for each period of five consecutive fiscal years thereafter, the Secretary of Finance shall classify all provinces on the basis of the average total avenue of such provinces during the five consecutive fiscal years immediately preceding such classification according to the provisions of this Act as certified by the Auditor General: Provided, That the first classification shall take effect on July one, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven. Hereafter, there shall be no special or partial classification of the provinces, except as provided for in section two thousand sixty-seven-A of the Revised Administrative Code.