Section 3
SEC. 3. Board of Examiners for Physical Therapists and Occupational Therapists.-There is hereby created a Board of Examiners for Physical Therapists and Occupational Therapists, hereinafter called the Board, to be composed of a chairman and four members who shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission on Appointments. The chairman shall be a physiatrist and four members shall be two professionally qualified occupational therapists and two professionally qualified physical therapists. The physiatrist shall be appointed from lists of qualified physiatrists, submitted by the society of physical medicine and rehabilitation and the occupational therapists and physical therapists by their respective bona fide national professional organization or association and submitted to the President of the Philippines through the Commissioner of Civil Service. Succeeding Boards shall consist of a chairman who shall be a physiatrist recommended and appointed as hereinabove stated, two members who shall be registered physical therapists recommended by the Philippine Physical Therapy Association, and two members who shall be registered occupational therapists who shall be recommended by the Occupational Therapy Association of the Philippines, Incorporated. The chairman and members of the Board shall be appointed within six months from the approval of this Act.