Be it enacted by the Batasang Pambansa in session assembled:

SECTION 1. The Tandobanak Community High School in the Municipality of Sitangkai, Province of Tawi-Tawi, is converted into a national high school to be known as the Tandobanak National High School.

SEC. 2. The amount of one hundred thousand pesos for the operation of the school shall be funded out of the appropriations authorized by Batas Pambansa Blg. 230 for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports intended for new national high schools and an additional amount corresponding to fifty per cent of its share in the budgetary aid actually paid to it before such conversion shall be released for its operation from the national assistance fund to local schools. Thereafter, the amount necessary for its operation and maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 24, 1983.