Section 8
SEC. 8. The Commission shall have the following divisions: Patent Examining Division, Research Division, Legal Division, Evaluation and Financing Division, Administrative Division and other divisions that the Commission, with the approval of the National Science Development Board, may deem necessary to create. To better assure the attainment of the objectives of this Act, the heads of divisions of the Commission, shall be Filipino inventors, at least twenty-three years of age and except the head of the Legal Division, with at least one invention or utility model patent issued by the Philippine Patent Office. The division heads shall receive an annual compensation of eight thousand four hundred pesos. Such technical and administrative personnel as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the Commission shall be appointed by the Chairman of the National Science Development Board upon recommendation of the Commissioner of the Commission and subject to the approval of the Board. In view of the limited number of persons who may qualify for positions in the Commission requiring the appointee to be an inventor with at least one invention or utility model patent issued by the Philippine Patent Office where nobody qualities for a given position, an officer of the Commission or of the National Science Development Board, may be temporarily appointed to that position and may receive additional compensation not exceeding one-half of the compensation for the second position until qualified inventor can fill the vacancy.