Section 25Sec./Art. 25

Legal Assistance Fund. - There is hereby established a legal assistance fund for migrant workers, hereinafter referred to as the Legal Assistance Fund, in the amount of One hundred million pesos (P100,000,000) to be constituted from the following sources:

Fifty million pesos (P50,000,000) from the Contingency Fund of the President;

Thirty million pesos (P30,000,000) from the Presidential Social Fund; and

Twenty million pesos (P20,000,000) from the Welfare Fund for Overseas Workers established under Letter of Instruction No. 537, as amended by Presidential Decree Nos. 1694 and 1809.

Any balances of existing funds which have been set aside by the government specifically as legal assistance or defense fund to help migrant workers shall, upon effectivity of this Act, be turned over to, and form part of, the Fund created under this Act.