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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 723 - AN ACT TO
AMEND SECTION THREE, FOUR AND THIRTY-TWO OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE PUBLIC
SERVICE ACT |
Section 1.
Section three of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six,
as amended by section one of Republic Act Numbered One hundred and
seventy-eight, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "Sec. 3. The
Commissioner and Associate Commissioners shall hold office until they
reach the age of seventy years, or until removed in accordance with the
procedure prescribed in section one hundred and seventy-three of Act
Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Revised
Administrative Code. In case of the absence, for any reason, of the
Public Service Commissioner, the Associate Commissioner with seniority
of appointment shall act as Commissioner. If on account of absence,
illness, or incapacity of any of the Commissioners, or whenever by
reason of temporary disability of any Commissioner or of a vacancy
occurring therein, the requisite number of Commissioners necessary to
render a decision or issue an order in any case is not present, or in
the event of a tie vote among the Commissioners, the Secretary of
Justice may designate such number of Judges of the Court of First
Instance, or such number of attorneys of the legal division of the
Commission, as may be necessary, to sit temporarily as Commissioners in
the Public Service Commission. Sec. 2. Section four Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six, as amended by Republic Act Numbered One hundred and seventy-eight, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "Sec. 4. The
Public Service Commissioner shall receive an annual compensation of
eleven thousand pesos; each of the Associate Commissioners an annual
compensation of ten thousand pesos; the chief attorney for the legal
division an annual compensation of six thousand six hundred pesos, and
each of the other five attorneys of the legal division, five thousand
four hundred pesos." Sec. 3. Section thirty-two of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six is hereby amended to read as follows: "Sec. 32.
The Commission may, in any investigation or hearing, by its order in
writing, cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without
the Philippines to be taken in the manner prescribed by the Rules of
Court. Where witnesses reside in places distant from Manila and it
would be inconvenient and expensive for them to appear personally
before the Commission, the Commission may, by proper order, commission
any clerk of the Court of First Instance, municipal judge or justice of
the peace of the Philippines to take the deposition of witnesses in any
case pending before the Commission. It shall be the duty of the
official so commissioned, to designate promptly a date or dates for the
taking of such deposition, giving timely notice to the parties, and on
said date to proceed to take the deposition, reducing it to writing.
After the depositions have been taken, the official so commissioned
shall certify to the depositions taken and forward them as soon as
possible to the Commission. It shall be the duty of the respective
parties to furnish stenographers for taking and transcribing the
testimony taken. In case there are no stenographers available, the
testimony shall be taken in long hand by such person as the clerk of
court, the municipal judge or justice of the peace may designate. The
Commission may also commission a notary public to take the depositions
in the same manner herein provided. Sec. 4. In addition to the sum already appropriated for the Commission under the General Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifty-two and nineteen hundred and fifty-three, the sum of ten thousand one hundred pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated for carrying out the purpose of this Act. Sec. 5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Sec. 6. This Act shall take effect on its approval. Approved: June 6, 1952 |
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