Section 4
SEC. 4. Section one hundred and sixty-one, Article VI, Chapter nine of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 161. Places and times of holding courts.—For the Fourth Judicial District, court shall be held in the City of Manila, in Pasis, Rizal, and in Palawan as hereinafter provided. In other districts, court shall be held at the capital of the province in which the judges are permanently residing, respectively, except as hereinafter provided. Sessions of court shall be convened on all workdays when there are cases ready for trial or other court business to be dispatched. "In the following districts, court shall also be held at the places and times hereinbelow specified: “In the First District: At Aparri, Province of Cagayan, on the first Tuesday of January of each year; at Santo Domingo de Basco, Province of Batanes, on the first Tuesday of March of each year. A special term of court shall also be held once a year in the municipalities of Abulug and Tuao, both of the Province of Cagayan, and in the municipalities of Echagiie and Cabagan, both of the Province of Isabela, in the discretion of the district judge: Provided, however, That cases coming from the Subprovince of Apayao may be tried in the municipality of Tuao, Province of Cagayan, in the discretion of the district judge; at Bayombong, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, on the second Tuesday of January and June of each year; at Bangued, Province of Abra, on the first Tuesday of March and October of each year. "In the Second District: At Baguio, Mountain Province, on the first Tuesday of June and December of each year; at Kiangan, Mountain Province, on the first Tuesday of March and November of each year; at Bontoc, Mountain Province, on the second Tuesday of March and November of each year; and whenever the interests of justice so require, a special term of court shall be held at Lubuagan, Subprovince of Kalinga; at San Fernando, La Union, on the first Tuesday of January and September of each year; at Tayug, Province of Pangasinan, on the first Tuesday of February of each year; at Iba, Province of Zambales, on the first Tuesday of February and October of each year; and at Balanga, Province of Bataan, on the first Tuesday of January and June of each year. "In the Fourth District: At Coron, Province of Palawan, on the first Monday of March and August of each year; at Cuyo, same province, on the second Thursday of March and August of each year; and at Puerto Princesa, same province, on the fourth Wednesday of March and August of each year. “In the Fifth District: At Calapan, Province of Mindoro, on the second Tuesday of February and the second Tuesday of September of each year; at San Jose, same province, on the second Tuesday of March of each year; at Lubang, Lubang Island, Province of Mindoro, on the fourth Tuesday of March of each year; at Infanta, Province of Tayabas, for the municipalities of Infanta, Casiguran, Baler and Polillo, on the first Tuesday of June of each year; at Boac, Province of Marinducme, on the first Tuesday of March of each year. "In the Sixth District: At Virac, Subprovince of Catanduanes, on the first Tuesday of March and September of each year; and at Masbate, Province of Masbate, on the second Tuesday of March and September of each year. "In the Seventh District: At Romnlon, Province of Romblon, on the first Tuesday of March and November of each year; at San Jose, Province of Antique, on the first Tuesday of June and November of each year; at Culasi, Province of Antique, on the first Tuesday of December of each year; and at Larena, Subprovince of Siquijor, on the first Tuesday of August of each year. "In the Eighth District: At Borongan, Province of Samar, on the second Tuesday of July of each year; at Catarinan, same province, on the first Tuesday of March of each year; at Guiuan, same province, on the second Tuesday of February of each year; at Calbayog, same province, on the Second Tuesday of September of each year; at Laoang, of the same province, in the first Tuesday of October of each year; at Maasin, Province of Leyte, on the first Tuesday of March and September of each year; at Ormoe, same province, on the first Tuesday of December of each year. "In the Ninth District: At Oroquieta, Province of Occidental Misamis, on the first Tuesday of December and June of each year; at Cantilan, Province of Surigao, on the second Tuesday of August of each year; at Butuan, Province of Agusan, on the first Tuesday of March and October of each year; a special term of court shall also be held once a year in either the municipality of Tandag or the municipality of Hinatuan, Province of Surigao, in the discretion of the district judge; at Mambajao, Province of Oriental Misamis, on the first Tuesday of March of each year; at Malaybalay, Province of Bukidnon, on the first Tuesday of December of each year. A special term of court shall also be held once a year either in the municipality of Talisayan or in the municipality of Gingoog, Province of Oriental Misamis, in the discretion of the district judge; at Iligan, Province of Lanao, on the first Tuesday of September of each year, but the September term for the Province of Lanao may be held at Dansalan, Province of Lanao, in the discretion of the district judge; at Dipolog, Province of Zamboanga, on the first Tuesday of January and June of each year; at Jolo, Province of Sulu, on the first Tuesday of March and November of each year. The office of the clerk of Court of First Instance of Dapitan, Province of Zamboanga, is hereby transferred to Dipolog, same province. At Cotabato, Province of Cotabato, on the first Tuesday of March and November of each year; at Glan, same province, and at Baganga and Mati, Province of Davao, terms of court shall be held at least once a year on the dates to be fixed by the district judge. "Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, whenever weather conditions, the condition of the roads or means of transportation, the number of cases, or the interests of the administration of justice require it, the Secretary of Justice may advance or postpone the term of court or transfer the place of holding the same to another municipality within the same judicial district, and, in land registration cases, to any other place more convenient to the parties."