Section 4
SEC. 4. Paragraphs (d), (e), (f) and (g), and sub-paragraphs (1) and (9) of paragraph (j) of Section eight of the same Act are amended and a new paragraph to be known as paragraph (k) is added to the same section to read as follows: "(d) Employee.—Any person who performs services for an 'employer' in which either or both mental and physical efforts are used and who receives compensation for such services, where there is an employer-employee relationship. "(e) Dependent.—The legitimate spouse and legitimate or legitimated child of the covered employee who is under twenty-one years of age, and the parents of said employee who are wholly dependent upon him for regular support. "(f) Compensation.—All actual remuneration for employment, including the cash value of any remuneration paid in any medium other than cash except that part of the remuneration in excess of five hundred pesos received during the month. "(g) Monthly salary credit.—The compensation base for premiums and benefits as indicated in the schedule in Section eighteen of this Act. "(j) Employment.—Any service performed by an employee for his employer, except— "(1) Agricultural labor when performed by a share or leasehold tenant or worker who is not paid any regular daily wage or base pay and who does not work for an uninterrupted period of at least six months in a year; "(9) Service performed as a student nurse in the employ a hospital or nurses' training school, and service performed as a medical intern in the employ of a hospital; and "(k) Beneficiaries.—Those designated as such by the covered employee from among the following: "(1) The legitimate spouse, the legitimate, legitimated, acknowledged natural children and natural children by legal fiction, and their legitimate descendants; "(2) In default of such spouse and children, the legitimate parents of the covered employee; "(3) In the absence of any of the foregoing, any other person designated by him."