Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Section two thousand and seventy-three of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2073. Permission for official to absent himself from from province.—Except as allowed by law, no provincial official engaged in the discharge of continuous duties shall leave the province without obtaining permission so to do from the Department Head: Provided, however, That as regards provincial fiscals and deputy provincial fiscals, permission to leave the province shall be obtained directly from the Attorney-General."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 21, 1930.