[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 187, February 17, 1939 ]
PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE GRANTING OF ALLOWANCE FOR THE PARTIAL SUPPORT OF DEPENDENT OR DEPENDENTS OF TRAINEES WHO, AFTER THE TERMINATION OF THE PERIOD OF DEFERMENT BY REASON OF DEPENDENCY, ARE SELECTED TO UNDERGO TRAINEE INSTRUCTION
By virtue of the provisions of section sixty-nine of the National Defense Act, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Seventy, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby promulgate the following rules governing the granting of allowance for the partial support of the dependent or dependents of a trainee who, after the termination of his period of deferment by reason of dependency, is selected to undergo trainee instruction notwithstanding the continuance of said condition of dependency:
1. The provincial inspector shall submit the case of each trainee so selected to undergo military training to the corresponding Acceptance Board for the proper determination of his dependent or dependents and the amount of allowance said dependent or dependents shall receive in accordance with the rates fixed in this Executive Order.
2. The Acceptance Board concerned shall, with the least possible delay, submit a report of its action in each case to the district commander, through the provincial inspector.
3. The allowance to the dependent or dependents of a trainee during the period of his absence undergoing instruction, is hereby fixed as follows:
5. The dependent or dependents of a trainee shall be construed to mean the trainee s legitimate wife, or dependent child or children, or in the absence thereof, his parents, provided that they do not have other means of support nor live under the care of any other person.
Done at the City of Manila, this seventeenth 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
1. The provincial inspector shall submit the case of each trainee so selected to undergo military training to the corresponding Acceptance Board for the proper determination of his dependent or dependents and the amount of allowance said dependent or dependents shall receive in accordance with the rates fixed in this Executive Order.
2. The Acceptance Board concerned shall, with the least possible delay, submit a report of its action in each case to the district commander, through the provincial inspector.
3. The allowance to the dependent or dependents of a trainee during the period of his absence undergoing instruction, is hereby fixed as follows:
(a) Trainee with only one dependent, not exceeding P7 a month.4. In the event that the Acceptance Board does not grant the allowance, for partial support of the dependent or dependents as claimed by the trainee, the latter, through the provincial governor, may appeal within ten days from the date of receipt of the decision of the Acceptance Board to the Central Review Board which shall review the case. The decision of the Central Review Board thereon shall be rendered without unnecessary delay and shall be final.
(b) Trainee with two or more dependents, not exceeding P10 a month.
5. The dependent or dependents of a trainee shall be construed to mean the trainee s legitimate wife, or dependent child or children, or in the absence thereof, his parents, provided that they do not have other means of support nor live under the care of any other person.
Done at the City of Manila, this seventeenth day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth.
MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines
President of the Philippines
By the President:
JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President