Question & AnswerQ&A (Commonwealth Act No. 506)
The main purpose of Commonwealth Act No. 506 is to amend Commonwealth Act No. 330, which appropriated funds for public works, by modifying certain items of appropriation for specific infrastructure projects in various provinces of the Philippines.
Section 1 amended appropriations under section one, subsection C, paragraph (r) of Commonwealth Act No. 330 for projects including school buildings, water supply systems, road constructions, and other public works in provinces such as Antique, Cebu, Manila, Marinduque, Occidental Negros, Palawan, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Samar, and Sorsogon.
In Antique, the amendment appropriated P4,000 for the Tibiao Elementary School under item 48.
Unexpended balances of appropriations made in Section 1 remaining on December 31, 1941, shall revert to the Consolidated General Fund derived from the coconut oil excise tax; balances under Section 2 remaining on June 30, 1941, revert to the General Fund; and balances under Section 3 revert to the Port Works Fund. After these dates, the funds shall not be available for expenditure except upon new appropriation by the National Assembly.
Section 4 suppresses item 29 under Pangasinan and item 10 under Antique from section one, subsection C, paragraph (r) of Commonwealth Act No. 330.
Section 3 amends the appropriation for continuing the construction of the Dewey Boulevard Extension in Manila, setting the amount at P1,500,000.00 under subsection F (Miscellaneous) paragraph (ff).
No, certain items in Section 1 (such as Antique Item 48, Cebu Item 125, Manila Item 17, Marinduque Items 59 and 60, Occidental Negros Item 54, Palawan Item 1, and several Pangasinan items) and Section 2 (Items 33 and 33a) are disapproved as stated in the approval note.
The Act shall take effect upon its approval, except for the specified disapproved items.
Section 2 allocates funds for the Kabankalan-Tolong Road (Occidental Negros Inter-provincial Road) with P810,000.00, Bukidnon-Davao road via Dankagan and Tugbok with P1,080,000.00, and Parua River control works in barrio Balutu, Conception, Tarlac, with P20,000.00.
Appropriation balances remaining on specific cutoff dates automatically revert to designated government funds (General Fund, Port Works Fund, or Consolidated General Fund), and are thereafter not available for expenditure unless specifically re-appropriated by the National Assembly.