REPUBLIC ACT NO. 480 - AN ACT TO AMEND SUBSECTION (C) OF SECTION FOUR OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE, BY PROVIDING THAT ORIGINAL APPOINTMENTS IN THE DENTAL CORPS SHALL BE IN THE GRADE OF FIRST LIEUTENANT.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Subsection ( c ) of section four of Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and ninety-one is hereby amended to read as follows:

"( c ) Except as hereafter authorized or unless otherwise expressly provided by law, all initial appointments of Regular Officers shall be in the grade of second lieutenant. Priority in filling vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant will be given: first; to graduates of the Philippines Military Academy or of the United States Military or Naval Academy, or Philippine Air Force or United States Air Force Flying Schools; second, to honor graduates of senior military training units in schools and colleges; third, to enlisted men who, at the time of appointment, shall have served for at least one full term of enlistment in the Armed Forces of the Philippines and have much other qualifications as may be prescribed by the Secretary of National Defense; and fourth, others who shall have such qualifications as the Secretary of National Defense shall prescribe: Provided, That original appointments in the Judge Advocate General's Service, the Medical Corps, and the Dental Corps shall be in the grade of first lieutenant from among applicants who, at the time of appointment, shall be not less than twenty-five nor more than thirty-five years of age, and in addition shall have engaged in the practice of law for at least two years, if appointment is to be made in the Judge Advocate General's Service; and shall have engaged in the practice of medicine or dentistry for at least two years, if appointment is to be made in the Medical Corps or Dental Corps: Provided, further, That the President may appoint professors without military rank for the Military Academy, with such compensation as he may prescribe or in such commissioned grades of the Regular Force as he may determine, such professors, associate professors and assistant professors, to be carried as separate roster and in addition to the number of commissioned officers prescribed." SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 10, 1950.