Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled;

SECTION 1. There shall be established, under the direct supervision of the Director of Medical Services, an emer­gency hospital in the Municipality of Itbayat, Province of Batanes, to be known as the Itbayat Emergency Hospital. The site for the said hospital shall be provided by the municipal council of the said municipality in consul­tation with the Director of Medical Services.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of Health shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the purpose of this Act.

SEC. 3. The sum of one hundred thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the establishment and operation of the said hospital during the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-four. Such sums as may be necessary for its operation and maintenance in subsequent years shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 22, 1963.