Uniform Publication of Official Gazette

Section 2 authorizes the Director of Printing to publish the Official Gazette as frequently as the public interest of the Government requires.
Section 2 empowers the Director of Printing to appoint, with the approval of the proper department head, personnel necessary to carry out the Act, in addition to personnel then employed in the Bureau of Printing.
Section 2 authorizes the Director of Printing to make and collect charges for subscriptions to the Official Gazette and for publications therein that are payable by the person interested.
Section 2 mandates that the Official Gazette be edited in the Executive Office.
Section 2 requires publication in the English language, while allowing an additional Spanish edition if the President determines that the interest of the service so requires.
Section 2 directs that sale and distribution be effected by the Bureau of Printing, which must promptly mail copies to subscribers free of postage.
Section 2 requires that at the end of each quarter an index be supplied as part of the Official Gazette.
Section 2 requires that the index published at the end of the last quarter be complete for the entire year.

Section 3 requires each department, bureau, office, and agency or instrumentality of the National Government to subscribe to the Official Gazette and to pay for it out of its respective funds.
Section 3 requires each provincial, city, and municipal government to subscribe to the Official Gazette and to pay for it out of its respective funds.
Section 3 requires every subscribing unit to file and properly keep the Official Gazette with the public records of the department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality, province, city, or municipality concerned for reference.

Section 4 provides that funds appropriated for publication of the Official Gazette remain continued and available to carry out the Act’s provisions.
Section 5 states that the Act takes effect upon its approval.
The Act was approved June 10, 1941.