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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 363
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 363 -
INCREASING THE SALARIES OF THE PRESIDING JUSTICE AND THE ASSOCIATE
JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, THE PRESIDING JUDGE AND JUDGES OF
SPECIALIZED COURTS, AND JUDGES OF LOWER COURTS
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WHEREAS,
under Section 10, Article X of the New Constitution which took effect
on January 17, 1973, the annual salaries of the Chief Justice and the
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court have been increased to
seventy-five thousand pesos and sixty thousand pesos, respectively,
which increases in pay have been made effective by Presidential Decree
No. 103, dated January 18, 1973;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, Section 6, Article XV of the New Constitution has removed the
income tax exemption privileges previously enjoyed by members of the
Judiciary;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in view of the removal of such exemption and considering the
duties and responsibilities of the Justices of the Court of Appeals and
the Judges of other inferior courts, it is necessary that their
salaries be fixed at commensurate levels;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, under Appropriation Decree No. 233, there has already been
appropriated the sum of P14,185,000 for salary differentials of the
Justices, Judges, and other officials of the Judiciary;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:cralaw:red
Section 1. The provisions of existing laws to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Presiding Justice and Associate Justices
of the Court of Appeals and the Presiding Judge and Judges of other
inferior courts shall receive the following salaries:cralaw:red
(a) The Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals
shall receive a salary of P54,000.00 per annum; and each Associate
Justice shall receive a salary of P50,000.00 per annum.
(b) The Judges of the Courts of First Instance,
Circuit Criminal Courts, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts shall
receive a salary of P40,000.00 per annum.
(c) The Presiding Judges of the Court of Tax Appeals,
the Court of Agrarian Relations and the Court of Industrial Relations
shall each receive P42,000.00 per annum; and each of the Associate
Judges of said courts shall receive P40,000.00 per annum.
Section 2. The salary differentials resulting from
the adjustment of salaries as provided in this Decree shall be paid out
of the specific appropriation in Presidential Decree No. 233, which is
hereby programmed for expenditure effective as January 1, 1974. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Done in the City of Manila,
this 3rd day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-four.
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