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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 103
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 103 -
IMPLEMENTING THE PROVISIONS OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION INCREASING THE
SALARIES OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME
COURT
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WHEREAS, the new Constitution took effect
on January 17, 1973 following its ratification by the Filipino people;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, thereunder, the Supreme Court shall be composed of a Chief
Justice and fourteen Associate Justices;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, it is provided in Article X, Section 10 of the said
Constitution that until the National Assembly shall provide otherwise,
the Chief Justice shall receive an annual salary of seventy-five
thousand pesos, and each Associate Justice, sixty thousand pesos;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081 dated September 21, 1972, do hereby
decree as follows: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any
funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated so much as
may be necessary to implement Article X, Section 10 of the Constitution
up to the end of the current fiscal year. Thereafter, the necessary
appropriation therefor shall be included in the annual General
Appropriations Decree.
Section 2. The payment of the salaries as provided in
the Constitution and as funded herein shall retroact to January 17,
1973.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 18th day January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-three.
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