QuestionsQuestions (BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 272)
The quoted law is Batas Pambansa Blg. 451, titled “An Act converting the Sablig Barangay High School in the Municipality of Anda, Province of Pangasinan into a National High School to be known as the Anda National High School, and authorizing the appropriation of funds therefor.” Its purpose is to convert a specific barangay high school into a national high school and provide funding for its operation.
The Sablig Barangay High School in the Municipality of Anda, Province of Pangasinan is converted into a national high school.
It will be known as the Anda National High School.
The Act itself directly effects the conversion by legislative enactment: Section 1 converts the Sablig Barangay High School into a national high school.
One hundred thousand pesos (₱100,000) is allocated for the operation of the school.
It is to be funded out of the appropriations authorized by Batas Pambansa Blg. 230 for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports intended for new national high schools.
An additional amount corresponding to fifty percent (50%) of its share in the budgetary aid actually paid to it before the conversion shall be released for its operation.
From the national assistance fund to local schools.
Thereafter, such sum as may be necessary for its operation and maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
It means future operating and maintenance costs are not fixed by this Act; they will be determined and funded through the annual General Appropriations Act.
It is computed based on the school’s share in the budgetary aid actually paid to it before the conversion.
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.
Section 3 states that the Act shall take effect upon its approval.
It was approved on June 10, 1983.
It identifies the exact school and municipality subject to conversion, indicating the legislative act applies only to that named school in the specified locality.
Because Section 2 relies on appropriations authorized by B.P. Blg. 230 for funding the conversion, requiring students to understand how earlier legislation funds “new national high schools.”