Presidential Decree No. 724 (PD 724) — Further Amending Section Sixteen Hundred Seventy Four of the Revised Administrative Code and Appropriating Funds Therefor.
WHEREAS, it is the policy of the government to ensure the
swift dispensation of justice;
WHEREAS, there is a need to restate this policy by
establishing an effective prosecution service in the recently created
provinces in Mindanao; and
WHEREAS, the steady population growth in some other
provinces makes it necessary to increase the present number of
prosecutors therein;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution do
hereby order and decree:
SECTION 1. The following sub-paragraphs in Section Sixteen
Hundred Seventy-Four of the Revised Administrative Code relative to the
number of assistant provincial fiscals in the following provinces are
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Occidental Negros, ten assistant provincial fiscals"
"Oriental Negros, nine assistant provincial fiscals"
"Rizal, twenty-eight assistant provincial fiscals"
SEC. 2. The same section of the Code is further amended by
inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical sequence, the following
lines:
"Basilan, one assistant provincial fiscal"
"Maguindanao, two assistant provincial fiscals"
"Sultan Kudarat, two assistant provincial fiscals"
"Tawi-Tawi, two assistant provincial fiscals"
SEC. 3. The assistant provincial fiscals mentioned above
shall receive the salaries provided by law for said positions.
SEC. 4. Such sum as may be necessary is hereby
appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise
appropriated for the salaries of the positions created in this Decree.
Thereafter, the necessary funds for the purpose shall be included in the
annual General Appropriations Decree.
SEC. 5. All laws, executive orders, rules and
regulations, parts thereof inconsistent with this Decree are hereby
repealed and/or modified accordingly.
SEC. 6. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of June, in the year
of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.
(Sgd.)
FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President
Republic of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.)
ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary
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