Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines:

SECTION 1. Section twenty-one of the Administrative Code is amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 21. Officials authorized to administer oaths.—The following officers have general authority to administer to administer oaths, to wit:

"Notaries public; judges, justice of the peace, and auxiliary justices of the peace; clerks of courts; the Secretary of the National Assembly; bureau directors; registers of deeds; provincial governors and lieutenant-governors; mayors; any other officer in the Philippine service whose appointment is vested in the President of the Philippines, Secretary of War, or President of the United States. A person who by authority of law shall act in the capacity their capacity of any of the officers mentioned above shall possess the same power."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, June 2, 1938.