[ Act No. 3564, November 26, 1929 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED BY ACTS NUMBERED TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE AND THIRTY-ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN, IN THE SENSE THAT A JUDGE OF FIRST INSTANCE DETAILED TO A DISTRICT OR PROVINCE OTHER THAN HIS OWN MAY TRY ALL KINDS OF CASES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
Section 1. Section one hundred and fifty-five of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, as amended by Acts Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and forty-one and Thirty-one hundred and seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 155. Detail of judge to another district or province.-If the public interest and the speedy administration of justice so require, a judge of first instance may be detailed by the Secretary of Justice to temporary duty, for a period which shall in no case exceed six months, in a district or province other than his own for the purpose of trying all kinds of cases."
Section 2. Section one hundred and fifty-eight of the same Act, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Section 158. Official stations of auxiliary judges.-One auxiliary judge shall be stationed at Vigan, Province of Ilocos Sur; one auxiliary judge shall be stationed at Lingayen, Province of Pangasinan, and another at Iloilo, Province of Iloilo; one at Cabanatuan, Province of Nueva Ecija; one at San Fernando, Province of Pampanga; one in the City of Manila; one at San Pablo, Province of Laguna; one at Lucena, Province of Tayabas; one at Legaspi, Province of Albay; one at Maasin, Province of Leyte; one at Cebu, Province of Cebu; one at Sorsogon, Province of Sorsogon; one at Tagbilaran, Province of Bohol; one at Bacolod, Province of Occidental Negros; and one at Jolo, Province of Sulu.
"The provisions of this section to the contrary notwithstanding, the Secretary of Justice is hereby authorized to change the station of the auxiliary judges from time to time if the interests of the administration of justice require it."
Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.1aшphi1
Approved, November 26, 1929.
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