REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5116 - AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR ONE ADDITIONAL JUDGE FOR THE EIGHT JUDICIAL DISTRICT TO
PRESIDE OVER THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF OCCIDENTAL MINDORO, WITH
PERMANENT STATION IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JOSE, PROVINCE OF
OCCIDENTAL MINDORO, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE SECTIONS FIFTY, FIFTY-TWO
AND FIFTY-FOUR OF THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1948
Section 1.
The eight paragraph of Section fifty of Republic Act
Numbered Two hundred ninety-six, otherwise known as the Judiciary Act
of 1948, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:
"Eleven judges shall be commissioned for the Eight Judicial District.
Four judges shall preside over the Courts of First Instance of Laguna
and the City of San Pablo, and shall be known as judges of the first,
second, third, and fourth branches thereof, respectively; three judges
shall preside over the Courts of First Instance of Batangas and the
City of Lipa, and shall be known as judges of the first, second and
third branches thereof, respectively; two judges shall preside over the
Court of First Instance of Mindoro Oriental, and shall be known as
judges of the first and second branches thereof, and two judges shall
preside over the Court of First Instance of Mindoro Occidental, and
shall be known as judges of the first and second branches thereof,
respectively; Provided, That the incumbent judge of the Courts of First
Instance of Mindoro Oriental and Mindoro Occidental shall be given the
privilege of selecting which court of first instance of said provinces
he refers to preside over."
Sec. 2. The seventh subparagraph of the second
paragraph of Section fifty-two of the same Act, as amended, is further
amended to read as follows:
"For the Eight Judicial District, one judge shall be stationed in the
Municipality of Biñan, Province of Laguna; two judges shall be
stationed in the Municipality of Santa Cruz, same province; and one
judge, in the City of San Pablo; and one judge of the first branch of
the Court of First Instance of Batangas shall be stationed in the
Municipality of Batangas, Province of Batangas; and those of the second
and third branches, in the City of Lipa and the Municipality of
Balayan, Province of Batangas, respectively; one judge in the
Municipality of Calapan, Province of Mindoro Oriental; one judge, in
the Municipality of Pinamalayan, same province; one judge in the
Municipality of Mamburao, Province of Mindoro Occidental; and one
judge, in the Municipality of San Jose, same province."
Sec. 3. The fourth subparagraph of the second
paragraph of Section fifty-four of the same Act, as amended, is further
amended to read as follows:
"Eight Judicial District: The judge shall hold special term at the
municipalities of Lubang and Mamburao, Mindoro Occidental; Roxas,
Mindoro Oriental, once every year, as may be determined by him."
Sec. 4. There is hereby authorized to be
appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, such sum as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of
this Act.
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 17, 1967.
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