REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5382 - AN
ACT PROVIDING FOR ONE ADDITIONAL JUDGE FOR THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT TO PRESIDE OVER THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF SOUTH COTABATO
WITH PERMANENT STATION IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF KORONADAL, PROVINCE OF
SOUTH COTABATO, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE SECTIONS FORTY-NINE, FIFTY AND
FIFTY-TWO OF THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1948
Section 1. The sixteenth subparagraph of Section forty-nine
of Republic Act Numbered Two hundred ninety-six, known as the Judiciary
Act of 1948, as amended, is further amended to read as
follows:
"The Sixteenth Judicial District, of the Provinces of Davao del Norte,
Davao del Sur, Davao Oriental and the City of Davao, the Provinces of
Cotabato, South Cotabato, and the City of Cotabato and Occidental
Misamis, Ozamis City, the Provinces of Zamboanga del Norte and
Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga City, Basilan City, and the Province of
Sulu.
Sec. 2. The sixteenth paragraph of Section fifty
of the same Act, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:
"Nineteen judges shall be commissioned for the Sixteenth Judicial
District. Four judges shall preside over the Courts of First Instance
of the Provinces of Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Oriental, and
Davao City, to be known as judges of the first, second, third and
fourth branches thereof; three judges shall preside over the Court of
First Instance of Cotabato, to be known as judges of the first, second
and third branches thereof; two judges shall preside over the Court of
First Instance of South Cotabato, to be known as judges of the first
and second branches thereof, respectively; three judges shall preside
over the Courts of First Instance of Occidental Misamis and Ozamis
City, to be known as judges of the first, second and third branches
thereof; two judges shall preside over the Court of First Instance of
Zamboanga del Norte, to be known as judges of the first and second
branches thereof; one judge shall preside over the Court of First
Instance of Zamboanga del Sur; one judge shall preside over the Court
of First Instance of Zamboanga City; one judge shall preside over the
Court of First Instance of Basilan City; and two judges shall preside
over the Court of First Instance of Sulu, to be known as judges of the
first and second branches thereof.
Sec. 3. The fifteenth subparagraph of the second
paragraph of Section fifty-two of the same Act, as amended, is further
amended to read as follows:
"For the Sixteenth Judicial District, three judges shall be stationed
in the City of Davao; one judge in the Municipality of Mati, Province
of Davao Oriental; one judge shall be stationed in the City of
Cotabato; one judge each shall be stationed in the Municipalities of
Koronadal and General Paulino Santos, Province of South Cotabato; one
judge each shall be stationed in the Municipalities of Pagalungan and
Sultan sa Barongis, Province of Cotabato; two judges shall be stationed
in the Municipality of Oroquieta, Province of Occidental Misamis; one
judge shall be stationed in Ozamis City; two judges in the Municipality
of Dipolog, Province of Zamboanga del Norte; one judge in the
Municipality of Pagadian, Province of Zamboanga del Sur; one judge in
the City of Zamboanga; one judge in the City of Basilan; one judge in
the Municipality of Jolo, Province of Sulu; and one judge in the
Municipality of Siasi, same province.
Sec. 4. There is hereby appropriated, out of any
funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of
eighty thousand pesos or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry
out the purposes of this Act.
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 15, 1968.
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