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RA 2067 (Science Act of 1958) Section 14

RA 2067 (Science Act of 1958) Section 14

Section 14

SEC. 14. The Institute shall have the following divisions: the Administrative Division, the Division of Documentation, the Legal Division, and such other divisions as the Board may, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner of the Institute, deem necessary to create. There shall also be under the control and supervision of the Institute the following centers: the Industrial Research Center, the Agricultural Research Center, the Medical Research Center, the Biological Research Center, and such other centers as may be created by the Board. Each research center shall be headed by a research director. The President of the Philippines is hereby authorized to transfer to and place under the jurisdiction of the Institute, upon recommendation of the Board, such existing government research agencies and instrumentalities as may constitute the nucleus of the respective centers herein provided. The President may likewise, upon recommendation of the Board, reorganize and strengthen said government agencies and instrumentalities so that they may adequately function as research centers under the provisions of this Act. The existing Institute of Nutrition under the Department of Health, together with its personnel, appropriation, supplies and equipment with all its functions and powers, is hereby transferred to the National Institute of Science and Technology, under which it shall become one of its research centers and shall function as presently organized, Reorganization Plan No. 14-A under Republic Act Numbered Nine hundred ninety-seven, as amended, notwithstanding, without prejudice to its reorganization by the President as above provided. The said Institute of Nutrition is hereby renamed Food and Nutrition Research Center.

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