FURTHER AMENDING SECTION SIXTEEN HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 724
• Sections: 7

Preamble

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

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"

Section 2

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"

Section 3

SEC. 3. The assistant provincial fiscals mentioned above

shall receive the salaries provided by law for said positions.

Section 4

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.

Section 5

SEC. 5. All laws, executive orders, rules and

regulations, parts thereof inconsistent with this Decree are hereby

repealed and/or modified accordingly.

Section 6

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