Section 4
SEC. 4. Section one hundred and forty-five-A of the Administrative Code, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Three, is further amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 145-A. The Court of Appeals.—The Court of Appeals of the Philippines shall consist of a Presiding Justice and fourteen Associate Justices, who shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines, with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the National Assembly. The Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals shall be so designated in his commission, and the other Justices of the Court shall have precedence according to the dates of their respective commissions, or when the commissions of two or more of them shall bear the same date according to the order in which their commissions have been issued by the President of the Philippines. The said Court of Appeals shall, as a body, sit in bane, but it may sit in three divisions of five Justices each. The three divisions may sit at the same time. "Whenever the terms 'Presiding Judge' and 'Appellate Judge' or 'Judge' appear in Commonwealth Act Numbered Three, they shall be read as 'Presiding Justice' and 'Associate Justice/ respectively."