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Act No. 864 Section 4

Act No. 864 Section 4

Section 4

SEC. 4. Sections two hundred and ninety and two hundred and ninety-one of the Customs Administrative Act are hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following is substituted: "SEC. 290. The Court of Customs Appeals shall have jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Courts of First Instance to consider all criminal prosecutions begun under this Act and under the immigration laws of the Philippine Islands, including the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, entitled 'An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,' and the Chinese Exclusion Acts, and under the customs and navigation laws; and the procedure in such cases shall be the same as in criminal causes in Courts of First Instance. The court first taking jurisdiction hereunder shall thereafter have exclusive jurisdiction of the prosecution thus begun. From a judgment of the Court of Customs Appeals in criminal causes there shall be right of appeal to the Supreme Court in every case in which the penalty of imprisonment or a fine exceeding six hundred Philippine pesos, exclusive of costs, is adjudged against the defendant. In all other criminal cases, including those in which a fine of six hundred pesos or less is adjudged or in which imprisonment is adjudged in default of payment of the line, the judgment of the Court of Customs Appeals shall be final."

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Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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