WHEREAS, officers and enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines who are performing combat duty are presently receiving combat pay in the amount of 120.00 a month;

WHEREAS, pursuant to PD 1527, officers and men of the Integrated National Police who are performing hazardous duty are authorized hazardous duty pay in the amount of 120.00 a month;

WHEREAS, the combat pay and hazardous duty pay are forms of incentives which are intended to compensate for the numerous perils that the above-mentioned personnel have ______ in the performance of their tasks;

WHEREAS, due to the general increase in the prices of commodities, these rates are no longer adequate and have become too unrealistic to provide the intended incentives;

NOW THEREFOR, I, FERDINAND E MARCOS, President of the Philippines , by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby order and direct that:

SECTION 1. The rates of combat pay of officers, enlisted personnel, draftees and extended trainees of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the hazardous duty pay of the officers and men of the Integrated National Police shall be TWO HUNDRED FORTY PESOS (240.00) a month.

SECTION 2. The Minister of National Defense shall issue such implementing instructions as are necessary and proper to carry out the intent of this Order.

SECTION 3. The funds needed to implement this Order shall be charged against the respective Annual Appropriations of the AFP and INP.

SECTION 4. This Order shall take effect on April 1, 1985 .

DONE IN THE CITY OF BAGUIO , this 22nd day of March, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five.

 

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS