Section 3
SEC. 3. Section 3 of Republic Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred and fourteen is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 3. To carry out the provisions of this Act, all dental health activities of the regional health offices of the Department of Health, including those in hospitals, sanitaria and other units under the Department of Health, together with all dental health personnel, their salary items, equipment and appropriations, except those specifically excluded in Section two (a) hereof, are hereby placed under the supervision, integration, control and coordination of the Bureau of Dental Health Services: Provided, That in the case of hospitals and sanitaria under the Department of Health, the Bureau of Dental Health Services shall exercise only technical supervision over the dental services in those institutions, while the administrative control and supervision over the dental personnel thereof shall be exercised by the chiefs of the said institutions. The financing of these various dental activities as well as the salary items and the appointments of all their personnel, shall continue as heretofore, and the President of the Philippines is hereby authorized to effect the transfer of such dental health activities in the various agencies of the government as have not as yet been transferred to the Bureau of Dental Health Services, with the corresponding items and personnel, equipment and appropriations, upon the approval of this Act."