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

SECTION 1. There shall be established, operated and maintained under the supervision of the Director of Vocational Education, an experimental station and pilot school of cottage industries in the Second Congressional District, Province of Ilocos Sur, at a suitable site and place to be selected by the said Director, to be known as Ilocos Sur Experimental Station and Pilot School of Cottage Industries.

SEC. 2. The station and school shall make studies and conduct experiments on the different cottage industries, improve and perfect their techniques and methods, acquaint and familiarize the people with their potentialities, and provide professional, technical and specialized instruction and training in them.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of Education and Secretary of Commerce and Industry shall jointly issue rules and regulations concerning the organization, administration, and government of the station and school, the different courses of study to be taught, school fees and teachers and other employees compensation and benefits, and all other pertinent matters to carry out the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 4. 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, operation, and maintenance of the station and school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-six. Thereafter, such sums as may be needed for the operation and maintenance of the station and school shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 19, 1965.