SBN-1045 - Senate

the Commission through the CESB.
previous qualification in the lower level.
Entrance to a higher level does not require
SEC. 12. The Non-Career Service. - The non-career service shall be
characterized by merit and fitness to be determined by (a) modes other than those of
the usual test utilized for the career service; (b) tenure which is limited to a period
specified by law; (c) tenure which is coterminous with that of the appointing authority or
subject to hisher pleasure or which is limited to the duration of a specific project for
which purpose of employment was made; and (d) the primarily confidential nature of
the position.
SEC. 13. Positions lncluded in the Non-Career Service. - The non-career
service shall include the following:
Elective officers and their personal and primarily confidential staff;
Department heads and other officers of Cabinet rank who occupy their
positions at the pleasure of the President and their personal and primarily
confidential staff;
Chairpersons and members of constitutional commissions and other
commissions, boards and other bodies with fixed terms of office and their
personal and primarily confidential staff.
Non-career undersecretaries and non-career assistant secretaries and
their personal and primarily cohfidential staff;
Contractual personnel or those whose employment is in accordance with a
special contract for a maximum period of one year to undertake a specific
work or job which requires special knowledge and/ or technical skills not
available in the employing agency;
Those whose positions may be declared as personal and primarily
confidential by the Commission; and
Emergency, casual and seasonal personnel.
Title 111 - The Civil Service Commission
Chapter 1. Composition, Duties and Functions
SEC 14. Composition. - The Commission shall be composed of a
Chairperson and two (2) Commissioners.
SEC 15. Qualifications of fhe Chairperson and Commissioners. - The
Chairperson and Commissioners shall be natural-born citizens of the Philippines, and at
the time of their appointment are at least thirty-five (35) years of age with proven
capacity for public administration and must not have been candidates for any elective
position in the elections immediately preceding their appointment.