ESTABLISHES RULES ON GRANTING NATIONAL AWARDS Having present that the H. National Congress has given its approval to the following BILL OF LAW: " I.-OF THE AWARDS Article 1 °-Create the National Literature Awards; Journalism; Science Exact; Natural Sciences; Applied and Technological Sciences; History; Education Sciences; Plastic Arts; Music Arts; Representation and Audiviocial Arts, and Humanities and Social Sciences, intended to recognize the work of Chileans, who for their excellence, creativity, transcendent contribution to national culture and The development of these fields and areas of knowledge and the arts, will be made creditors to these awards. In exceptional form, the same award can be awarded to a foreign personality of long residence in Chile and whose scientific or creative work has been developed in the country and means a contribution of excellence and relevance to science, national culture or art. These prizes will be awarded every two years and in indivisible form. However, the jury, by the unanimity of its members, in qualified cases, may assign the prize jointly to two or more persons who have constituted a work team in such a way that it is difficult or unfair to attribute it to only one of them to be of collective merit, or to exclude it from him, for having carried out in conjunction an exceptional work. In such a case it shall be for the jury, by the same unanimity, to determine the proportion or manner in which each prize winner will participate in the economic benefits that the award contemplates. Article 2 °-The National Prize for Literature shall be awarded to the writer whose work, in any literary genre, makes him a creditor of that distinction. Article 3 °-The National Prize for Journalism will distinguish the professional who has stood out for his contribution to the development of written, radio or television journalism. Article 4 °-The National Awards of Exact Sciences, Natural Sciences and Applied Sciences and Technology will be awarded, in each case, to the scientist whose work in the respective field of knowledge makes it worthy of this distinction. Article 5 °-The National Prize for History will distinguish the researcher who has stood out for his contribution to the historiography, understood since the beginning of the human population. Article 6-The National Prize for Education Sciences will be awarded to the person who has been highlighted for his contribution to the development of Education in any of its levels or to the Science of Education. Article 7 °-The National Awards of Plastic Arts, Music Arts and Arts of the Representation and Audiovisual will be presented, in each case, to the person who has distinguished himself for his achievements in the respective area of art, in some of the Specialties to be determined by the Regulation. Article 8 °-The National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences will be awarded to the humanist, scientific or academic, who has distinguished himself for his contribution in the field of the Human Sciences, in any of the disciplines that the regulation points out. II.-OF THE JURORS Article 9 °-The prizes referred to above will be awarded by jurors who, in all cases, will be composed of the Minister of Education, the Rector of the University of Chile and the last recipient of the respective National Award. The following persons shall also be included in the award of the jury, according to the Prize: a) Literature: An academic appointed by the Board of Rectors, elected from among the other universities that make up the country, and a representative of the Chilean Academy of Language; (b) Journalism: A representative of the Board of Rectors, elected from the rest of the participating universities that deliver the journalism career, and the President of the Institute of Chile; c) Exact Sciences: An academic appointed by the Board of Rectors, elected among the rest of the member universities that He holds a bachelor's degree in the respective area, and a representative of the Chilean Academy of Ciencias; d) Natural Sciences: An academic appointed by the Board of Rectors, chosen from among the other members of the university that holds a bachelor's degree in the respective area, and a representative of the Chilean Academy of Sciences; Applied Science and Technology: An academic appointed by the Board of Rectors, elected among the other universities that make up the study, and the President of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research; (f) History: A Academic appointed by the Board of Rectors, elected among the rest of the member universities To give such a degree, and a representative of the Chilean Academy of History; g) Science of Education: Two academicians appointed by the Board of Rectors, chosen from among the other participating universities (h) Bachelor's degree in Education Science; (h) Plastic Arts: An academic appointed by the Board of Rectors, elected from among the rest of the universities that integrate it, and a representative of the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts; (i) Music Arts: A The Council of Rectors, elected by the Council of Rectors, is appointed by the Council of Rectors. A representative of the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts; (j) Arts of the Representation and Audiovisual: An academic appointed by the Board of Rectors, elected among the rest of the universities that integrate it, and a representative of the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts, and k) Humanities and Social Sciences: An academic appointed by the Board of Rectors, elected among the rest of the participating universities, who grant a bachelor's degree in the respective area, and a representative of the Academy of Social Sciences. The members of the jurors appointed by the Board of Rectors and the respective academies and institutions mentioned in this article will be persons of relevant background and knowledge in the field on which they will be required to discern. Article 10.-The Minister of Education and the Rector of the University of Chile will be able to delegate their representation in order to integrate the juries. Article 11.-The jury may declare deserts the Prizes that this law establishes, without expression of cause. III.-OF THE PROCEDURE Article 12.-The national prizes shall be awarded in number of five and six each year, respectively, according to the following alternation: in the pairs years, the Prize for Literature, Natural Sciences, Applied Sciences and Technological, History and Music Arts; in the odd years, the Awards of Journalism, of Exact Sciences, of Science of Education, of Plastic Arts, of Arts of the Representation and Audiovisual and of Humanities and Social Sciences. Article 13.-The jury is sovereign in the selection of applicants. There will be no obligation to present a documented report of merit; each member of the jury will deliberate with complete freedom. Article 14.-Juries shall be convened by the Minister of Education, who shall provide the necessary premises, work items and staff of the secretariat. Article 15. Each jury shall, separately, elect from among its members a president and a secretary who shall act as minister of faith. Article 16. Jurors shall be known in the month of July of each year. They shall meet during the month of August of the year in which the prize is to be discerned and shall issue their judgment within the maximum period of thirty days of their constitution. The session in which the jury determines the award shall be attended by at least two thirds of its members. The respective agreement will be adopted by a simple majority, voting the Minister of Education once the remaining members of the jury have cast their votes. In case of a tie, the president of the jury will be headed. The deliberations of the jury will be confidential, as well as the information they have had in view to discern the respective prizes. The ruling must be founded, highlighting the intellectual merits of the graceful and the transcendence of his work. IV.-OF THE AWARDS Article 17.-Each national prize established in this law includes the following awards: 1. A diploma; 2.-A sum ascending to $6,562,457, amount to be readjusted annually, to count from the year 1993, in the percentage corresponding to the variation of the Consumer Price Index (I.P.C.) experienced during the previous calendar year, and 3. A monthly lifetime pension which, from 1 January 1991, shall be equivalent to 20 monthly tax units calculated according to the value of the unit of the month of January of each year, and the amount of which shall remain unchanged during all year, both for the current beneficiaries of these pensions and for the future recipients. Article 18.-All the rules currently in force that establish different systems of readjustability of these pensions, or increases or limitations regarding their perception. Article 19.-The award referred to in Article 17 (2) shall not constitute income, in accordance with Article 17, No. 23 of the Law on Income Tax, set out in Article 1 of Decree Law No. 824 of 1974. Article 20. The lifetime pension shall be paid monthly to the day 1 January of the year following the year of the award of the prize and shall be subject to the applicable tax rules. Article 21. The lifetime pension shall be compatible, in its entirety, with any other pension or remuneration that the beneficiary receives or may receive in the future. Article 22.-In the event of the death of the beneficiary of the life pension, the surviving spouse and minor children shall be entitled to continue to receive this pension. If the recipient is a surviving spouse and minor children, the amount of the pension will be distributed by 50% for the spouse and the other 50% for his/her minor children with right to abide between them. If there is no surviving spouse or a marriage contract, 100% of the pension shall be equal to the child's child, in equal parts, with the right to abide by each other. If there are no children or if they have reached the age of majority, 100% of the pension shall be paid to the surviving spouse. The right to a pension or proportional share shall automatically cease on the last day of the month in which the child is of the age of majority or the surviving spouse is married. Article 23.-Those who are graced with the prize or the beneficiaries mentioned in the previous article, may benefit from the health benefits that correspond to the legal provisions on the subject, and must make the respective contributions. Article 24.-The Public Sector Budget Law shall consult each year, in Chapter 01, Program 01 Subsecretariat of Education, Subtitle 25, item 31 Transfers to the Private Sector of Item 09 corresponding to the Ministry of Education, the resources necessary to cover the costs arising from the application of this law, with the exception of those for life pensions, which shall be charged to item 50-01-03-24-30.101 "Retirement, Pensions and Montepios" of the Treasury Item Public. Article 25. In addition to the economic benefits established in the preceding articles, the State shall promote the knowledge and dissemination of the work of the awardees. Article 26.-Defeat the decree with force of Law No. 1, 1988, of the Ministry of Public Education, which fixed the recast, coordinated and systematized text of the Rules on National Awards. TRANSITIONAL ARTICLES Article 1 °.-Where there are no award winners in the disciplines to obtain the prizes established by this law, the missing jury shall be appointed by the other members of the respective jury. Article 2.-For the granting of the National Awards for 1992, the time limits laid down in Law No 19.141 shall be considered. " And because I have had to approve and sanction it; therefore, promulgate and take effect as the Law of the Republic. Santiago, 22 September 1992.-PATRICIO AYLWIN AZOCAR, President of the Republic.-Ricardo Lagos Escobar, Minister of Education. What I transcribe to you for your knowledge.-Raul Allard Neumann, Undersecretary of Education.