Preamble
WHEREAS, under Section 10, Article X of the New Constitution, which took effect on January 17, 1973, the annual salaries of the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court have been increased to seventy-five thousand pesos (P75,000) and sixty-thousand pesos (P60,000), respectively, which increases in pay have been made effective by Presidential Decree No. 103, dated January 18, 1973; WHEREAS, Section 6, Article XV of the New Constitution, has removed the income tax exemption privileges previously enjoyed by members of the Judiciary; WHEREAS, in view of the removal of such exemption and considering the duties and responsibilities of the Justices of the Court of Appeals and the Judges of other inferior courts, it is necessary that their salaries be fixed at commensurate levels; WHEREAS, under Appropriation Decree No. 233, there has already been appropriated the sum of P14,185,000 for salary differentials of the Justices, Judges, and other officials of the Judiciary; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, do hereby decree as follows: