Presidential Decree No. 1856 (PD 1856) — Providing for Financial Support to the University of the Philippines Law Complex and Further Amending for This Purpose Republic Act Numbered Thirty-Eight Hundred Seventy, as Amended, Otherwise Known as the U.p. Law Center Charter
WHEREAS, the magnitude and pace of social changes in the
coming decades call for the establishment of an integrated system of national
and regional legal institutions, dedicated to teaching, research, training,
information, and legal extension services to ensure a just society;
WHEREAS, to respond to these challenges, and to the growing
legal and other law-related needs to the Filipino people, the Republic, and the
ASEAN communities there is need to reinforce the capabilities and expand the
resources of the College of Law and the Law Center;
WHEREAS, to effect this reinforcement and expansion, a U.P.
Law Complex is envisioned to consist of the U.P. College of Law, the U.P. Law
Center and other components; and
WHEREAS, to achieve the above objectives, the Board of Regents has
established in the University of the Philippines System a U.P. Law Complex;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, and
pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1416, as amended, do hereby decree and order
the following:
SECTION 1. Paragraph one of Section 4 of Republic Act
Numbered Thirty-eight hundred seventy, as amended, is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"SEC. 4. In order to provide for the support of the U.P. Law
Center and the University of the Philippines Law Complex, the additional amount
of one percent (1%) of the filing fee imposed, but in no case lower than Twenty
Pesos, in the case of the appellate courts and the additional amount of one
percent (1%) of the filing fee imposed, but in no case lower than Ten Pesos in
the case of all other courts, including all administrative or special courts, as
well as agencies or tribunals exercising quasi-judicial functions and those
enumerated in Letter of Instructions No. 1182, issued on December 16, 1981,
shall be collected by their respective clerks of court, or equivalent
functionary, for each action or special proceeding filed therewith and for which
the fees prescribed in the Rules of Court or in any statute or regulation as due
and payable. For this purpose 'special proceeding’ shall include any petition or
application, paper or document seeking official action to establish a status, a
right, privilege or particular fact or command the performance of a duty. Such
additional amounts shall be receipted for as part of a special fund to be known
as the "Legal Research Fund," and shall, upon collection, be immediately
remitted to the University of the Philippines and deposited in a separate
account in any authorized government depository bank in the name of the National
Treasurer as Ex-Officio Treasurer of the U.P. under this
charter."
SEC. 2. All laws, presidential issuances, rules or
regulations, or parts thereof inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 26th of December, in the year of Our Lord,
nineteen hundred and eighty-two.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the
Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Deputy Presidential Executive
Assistant
Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).
