RA 708 (Foreign Service Act of the Philippines) Section 5

Clothing allowances.

Section 5

SEC. 5. Clothing allowances.—The Secretary may, under such regulations as he may prescribe with the approval of the President, grant clothing allowances to officers and employees of the service assigned abroad not oftener than once every two years in amounts not exceeding one thousand pesos for chiefs of missions and principal officers, eight hundred pesos for Foreign Affairs Officers, and five hundred pesos for staff officers and employees.

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