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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5164 - AN ACT
DEFINING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE JUDICIARY DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE, PRESCRIBING THE QUALIFICATIONS AND FIXING THE COMPENSATION OF
ITS STAFF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Section 1. In the exercise of his power of general
administrative supervision over Courts of First Instance and other
courts of equivalent rank and city and municipal courts, the Secretary
of Justice shall be assisted by the Judiciary Division and shall: Sec. 2. The Judiciary Division shall have a chief
to be known as Judicial Superintendent who shall receive the same
compensation and shall have the same rank and be entitled to the same
privileges as a district judge, an assistant judicial superintendent
who shall receive an annual salary of seventeen thousand pesos Range 68
(P16,860 - P20,580) and such number of judicial supervisors whose
salaries are hereinafter provided, as follows: Sec. 3. The incumbent Assistant Judicial Superintendent, Senior Judicial Supervisors and Judicial Supervisors occupying positions affected by the preceding section at the time of the effectivity of this Act shall continue to occupy their respective positions and receive the salary increases herein provided without the necessity of any new appointments: Provided, That the present positions of legal researchers in the Judiciary Division are hereby converted into judicial supervisors and the incumbents thereof at the time of the effectivity of this Act shall occupy the highest resulting vacancies in the position enumerated in the preceding section and shall receive the salaries corresponding thereto also without the need of new appointments. Sec. 4. The judicial superintendent and the assistant judicial superintendent shall be members of the bar, for at least ten years and possessed of the same qualifications as a district judge. The senior judicial supervisors and judicial supervisors shall be members of the bar for at least five and three years, respectively: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to the incumbent legal researchers whose positions are converted to judicial supervisors in accordance with the preceding section. Sec. 5. The Judicial Superintendent, the Assistant Judicial Superintendent, and the Judicial Supervisors shall have authority to administer oaths in the performance of their official duties and functions. Sec. 6. With the exception of the eight other
officials of the Judiciary Division who shall receive the following
annual compensation: Sec. 7. Any provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, no officer or employee already holding office in the said Division on the date of effectivity of this Act shall, by reason thereof, be removed from office or demoted to a lower category or scale of salary, except for cause or upon compliance with due process provided by law. Sec. 8. In addition to the appropriations authorized in the current General Appropriations Act for the Judiciary Division and the Courts of First Instance, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and thereafter the appropriation for the salary of the officials and employees of the Judiciary Division, as well as for its equipment, supplies and traveling expenses, shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act: Provided, however, That the salary differentials resulting from the adjustment of salaries as provided in this Act shall be paid out of the unexpended appropriations authorized for the Judiciary Division and the Courts of First Instance. Sec. 9. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval. Enacted without Executive
approval, June 17, 1967. |
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