Section 3
SEC. 3. Section Five of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 5. The Non-Competitive Service.&mdashThe non-competitive service shall be composed of positions expressly declared by law to be in the non-competitive service and those which are policy-determining, primarily confidential or highly technical in nature. "The following specific officers and employees shall be embraced in the non-competitive service: "(a) Officers appointed by the President of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission on Appointments, except provincial treasurers, undersecretaries of departments, chiefs and assistant chiefs of bureaus and offices, and all other inferior officers of the Government whose appointments are by law vested in the President alone; "(b) The secretarial and office staff of the President, of the Vice-President, of the President of the Senate, of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and of each Member of the Congress of the Philippines including the personnel of all offices of the Chairmen of committees of both Houses of the Congress; "(c) The Secretarial Staff of each of the several heads of departments and of each of the justices of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals; "(d) Officers as may be required and chosen by the Congress of the Philippines in accordance with the Constitution ; "(e) Members of the various faculties and other academic personnel of the University of the Philippines and other government colleges offering courses on the collegiate level, including the business directors and registrars of said institutions; "(f) Heads of departments created in charters of cities and secretaries of provincial, city and municipal boards or councils and secretaries of provincial governors, city mayors and municipal mayors; "(g) Permanent laborers, whether skilled or unskilled; "(h) All supplementary employees in the Senate and the House of Representatives of Congress; "(i) Officers and employees appointed to positions for which the law prescribes specific special qualifications for appointment; "(j) Confidential assistant, confidential agents, investigation agents and special and secret service agents; and "(k) Commercial attaches."