Paragraph Five of Executive Order Numbered One Hundred Eleven, dated August 30, 1937, is hereby amended to read as follows:

œThe following are exempted from the operation of these rules: persons employed in a confidential capacity, teachers, physicians and members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, provided, however, that in each particular instance full report of such appointment shall be made to the President. The restriction mentioned in Section 2 hereof shall not also be applicable to the case of a member of any family who, after his or her appointment to any position in an office or bureau, contracts marriage with someone employed in the same office or bureau, in which event the employment or retention therein of both husband and wife may be allowed. 

Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary