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

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 1856
• Sections: 4

Preamble

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

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."

Section 2

SEC. 2. All laws, presidential issuances, rules or

regulations, or parts thereof inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Section 3

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