REPUBLIC ACT No. 4384
An Act Creating the Position of Deputy Register of Deeds for the Province of Zamboanga del Norte, Amending for the Purpose Section One Hundred Ninety-Two of the Revised Administrative Code, as Amended
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. Section one hundred ninety-two of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 192. Office of register of deeds.— There shall be one register of deeds for each city and one for each province, except in the Mountain Province, where there shall be two: one for the Subprovince of Benguet and another for the rest of the province: Provided, However, That the register of deeds of the City of Baguio or whoever performs his duties shall be ex-officio register of deeds of the Subprovince of Benguet, and that the register of deeds of a province whose capital is a chartered city or whoever is acting in his place shall likewise be ex-officio register of deeds for said city.
"There shall be one deputy register of deeds in each of the registries of the City of Manila, Quezon City, the provinces of Cebu, Iloilo, Negros Occidental, Pangasinan, Rizal, and Zamboanga del Norte with office at the Municipal of Sindangan, and also in each registry with a yearly average collection of more than thirty thousand pesos, whenever in the judgment of the Secretary of Justice the needs of the service so demand. The deputy register of deeds shall be in the classified service and shall be appointed by the Secretary of Justice, upon recommendation of the Commissioner of the Land Registration Commission."
Section 2. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred sixty-six.
Approved: June 19, 1965.
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