Section 5Sec./Art. 5

The Non-Competitive Service. The non-competitive or unclassified service shall be composed of positions expressly declared by law to be in the non-competitive or unclassified service or those which are policy-determining, primarily confidential or highly technical in nature.

The following specific officers and employees shall be embraced in the non-competitive or unclassified service:

(a) Officers appointed by the President of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission on Appointments, except provincial treasurers and assistant chiefs of bureaus and offices, and all other inferior officers of the Government whose appointments are by law vested in the President alone;

(b) The secretarial and office staff of the President, of the Vice-President, of the President of the Senate, of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and of each member of the Congress of the Philippines including the personnel of all the committees of both Houses of the Congress;

(c) One private secretary and one assistant private secretary to each of the several Heads of Departments and to each of the Justice of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals;

(d) Officers as may be required and chosen by the Congress of the Philippines in accordance with the Constitution;

(e) Members of the various faculties and other teaching force of the University of the Philippines and other government colleges offering courses on the collegiate level, including the business directors and registrars of said institutions;

(f) Secretaries of provincial, city and municipal boards or councils;

(g) Unskilled laborers whether emergency, seasonal or permanent; and

(h) All supplementary employees in the Senate and the House of Representatives of Congress.