Section 2
SEC. 2. Any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, officers and employees of the Commission on Elections, or those assigned thereto, except the Chairman and Members of the Commission on Elections, when working overtime on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays or after twelve-thirty o'clock post meridian during half day sessions and after five o'clock post meridian on regular working days, when authorized by the Commission on Elections may be paid compensation from the appropriation authorized in this Act at rates to be fixed by the Commission on Elections which shall not exceed the rate f their regular monthly compensation. Such additional compensation shall not exceed, for any one month, the equivalent of the regular compensation nor shall it exceed, for any one fiscal year, fifty per centum of such regular compensation.