Whereas the Government Service Insurance System created by Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred eighty-six grants compulsory membership insurance without the need of medical examination to all persons enumerated in section four of said Act as well as to all permanent and regular employees of provincial, city, and municipal governments, the University of the Philippines, and Government-owned or controlled corporations that may have exercised the option of joining the system;

Whereas, for the welfare of the Government and to insure the solvency of the System, it is necessary that proposed appointees in the classified service of the Government, in the University of the Philippines, and in government-owned or controlled corporations, who if appointed would acquire the status of a person upon whom membership insurance is compulsory as provided in the above-mentioned Act, be required to first undergo physical and medical examination for the purpose of determining not only their fitness for work and the contagiousness of diseases they may have but also their acceptability as insurance risks;

Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by law, do hereby promulgate the following regulations to henceforth govern all cases of proposed appointments in the classified service of the Government as well as in the University of the Philippines and corporations owned or controlled by the Government, which appointments if approved would entitle the appointees to compulsory membership insurance :

1. Every proposed appointee coming within the scope of the Government Service Insurance Act shall first be required to submit to a physical and medical examination to determine his fitness for work and the presence, if any, of disqualifying diseases or physical impairments which would make him a menace to his co-workers and unacceptable as insurance risk.

2. Any Government physician duly authorized shall perform the medical and physical examination mentioned above and shall accomplish the medical form prescribed for the purpose by the Government Service Insurance Board.

3. The examining physician shall send such form properly accomplished to the Government Service Insurance System, which shall in turn forward the same to the Bureau of Civil Service, the University of the Philippines, or the Government-owned or controlled corporations, as the case may be, together with its comment and recommendation as to the advisability of approving the proposed appointment.

4. Whenever any proposed appointee, on account of old age and/or poor physical condition, is considered by the System as a poor insurance risk, the Department Head or appointing official concerned shall not approve the proposed appointment. He may, however, in his discretion, approve the appointment as temporary (in case the position is not one subject to the provisions of Act Numbered Three thousand fifty, as amended), which may be made permanent and regular upon certification by the System that the physical condition of the employee warrants such change.

5. All Heads of Departments and Chiefs of Bureaus and independent offices of the Government having physicians in their employ are hereby directed to assign such medical officers to perform the physical and medical examination herein required of proposed appointees that may from time to time be sent to them for such examination, including proposed appointees in the University of the Philippines and the government-owned or controlled corporations.

6. Any of the foregoing regulations to the contrary notwithstanding, the present practice in connection with the physical and medical examination being conducted by the Philippine Army and the Philippine Constabulary prior to the commission or enlistment of their officers and enlisted men, or that which Paid organizations may hereafter adopt, shall be followed.

Done at the City of Manila, this second day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth.


By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President