H. No. 1516 / 47 OG No. 6, 2821 (June, 1951)
- "Officer" shall mean any commissioned officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines or Philippine Constabulary, whether regular or reserve, probationary second lieutenant, cadet of the Philippine Military Academy, and aviation or naval cadet.
- "Enlisted man" shall mean any person regularly en listed in the Armed Forces of the Philippines or Philippine Constabulary, or an enlisted reservist, or any trainee who has been duly accepted and sworn in for trainee instruction pursuant to the provisions of the National Defense Act.
- "Active service" means any active duty in the Regular or Reserve Force, Armed Forces of the Philippines, or in the Philippine Constabulary, including any period of military training as cadet, trainee, probationary second lieutenant or reservist, pursuant to the provisions of the National Defense Act.
- "Child" includes any child entitled to support under the Civil Code.
- "Father" and "mother" include, in the absence of a parent by nature, a father or mother by adoption and, in the absence of a legal parent, any person who stood in "loco parentis" to the deceased at least one year prior to his entry into the active service.
- "Widow" shall include the wife or husband of Armed Forces personnel not legally separated by final judicial decree from the deceased.
- "Reasonable maintenance" includes housing, food, clothing and medical care sufficient to sustain a living suitable to and consistent with the parent's reasonable mode of living.
- If and while the disability is rated 25 per centum the monthly pension shall be P30.
- If and while the disability is rated 50 per centum the monthly pension shall be P50.
- If and while the disability is rated 60 per centum, the monthly pension shall be P60.
- If and while the disability is rated 70 per centum, the monthly pension shall be P70.
- If and while the disability is rated 80 per centum, the monthly pension shall be P80.
- If and while the disability is rated 90 per centum, the monthly pension shall be P90.
- If and while the disability is rated total, the monthly pension shall be P100, unless otherwise provided in the succeeding paragraphs.
- If the disabled person, as the result of service-incurred disability, has suffered the anatomical loss or the loss of use of only one hand/or one foot, or blindness of one eye, having only light perception, the rate of the pension under the foregoing paragraphs shall be increased by P30 per month.
- If the disabled person, as the result of service-incurred disability, has suffered the anatomical loss or the loss of use of both hands, or of both feet, or of one hand and one foot, the rate of pension under the foregoing paragraphs shall be increased by P40 per month.
SEC. 8. Appropriations.-The sum of four hundred thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of the general funds of the National Treasury for the payment of gratuities or pensions authorized under this Act.
- For the purposes of this Act, any person in the active service for ninety days or more shall be deemed to have been in sound physical and mental condition at the time of his entry into the active service except as to defects, infirmities, disorder or diseases noted and made of record at the time of such entry into the active service, or where the evidence or medical judgment clearly warrants a finding that the wound, injury, disease or sickness existed prior to entry into the active service. Wounds or injuries received, or sickness or disease incurred in the active service shall be presumed to have been received or incurred in line of duty in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
- The determination prior to discharge of an officer or enlisted man as to his entitlement to gratuity or pension under section six of this Act shall be presumed final unless evidence and medical judgment clearly show otherwise, in which case a redetermination may be allowed: Provided, That the discharge or other separation from the active service shall be an honorable one.
- The employment of any pensionee under this Act in any government service or in any government owned corporation shall automatically terminate his right under this Act, but the same shall automatically be revived upon his separation from said employment.
- The disability pension provided for in section five of this Act shall apply to personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine Constabulary who were in active service on July 1, 1950.