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PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES & CODES
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REPUBLIC ACTS
AN ACT TO REPEAL EXECUTIVE ORDER
NUMBERED THIRTY-SEVEN, DATED THE TENTH OF MARCH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND
FORTY-FIVE, AND TO REVIVE, WITH CERTAIN AMENDMENTS, SECTIONS ONE
HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE-A TO ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE-Q OF THE REVISED
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AS HEREIN AMENDED, SO AS TO RECREATE THE COURT OF
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Section 1. Executive Order Numbered Thirty-seven, promulgated by the President of the Philippines on the tenth day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-five, pursuant to Commonwealth Act Numbered Six hundred and seventy-one, and paragraph (1) of Executive Order Numbered Three hundred and ninety-five, promulgated by the President of the Philippines on the twenty-fourth day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-one, are hereby repealed. chan robles virtual law library Sec. 2. Sec.s one hundred and forty-five-A to one hundred and forty-five-Q of the Revised Administrative Code, as inserted therein by Commonwealth Act Numbered Three and as amended by Commonwealth Acts Numbered Two hundred and fifty-nine and Four hundred and twenty-five are hereby revived with the exception of Sec.s one hundred and forty-five-A, one hundred and forty-five-I, one hundred and forty-five-J, one hundred and forty-five-K, and one hundred and forty-five-L, which are hereby amended so as to read as follows: chan robles virtual law library "Sec.
145-A. The Court of Appeals. — The Court of Appeals
of the Philippines shall consist of a Presiding Justice and fourteen
Associate Justices who shall be appointed by the President of the
Philippines, with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the
Congress. The Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals shall be so
designated in his commission, and the other Justices of the Court shall
have precedence according to the dates of their respective commissions,
or when the commissions of two or more of them shall bear the same
date, according to the order in which their commission have been issued
by the President of the Philippines. Sec. 3. Immediately after the approval of this Act, all cases which properly correspond to the Court of Appeals by virtue of the provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered Three, as revived and amended, which may be pending in the Supreme Court and which have not yet been heard on argument and submitted for decision by this Court, shall be certified by the clerk of the Supreme Court to the clerk of the Court of Appeals, to be heard and decided by the latter in conformity with the provisions of this Act. Those cases pending before the Supreme Court in which reference has been made to referees or commissioners for the taking of evidence shall not be so certified until after such evidence shall have been received in the Supreme Court. chan robles virtual law library Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved: October 4, 1946 |