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PD 974 Section 11

Appointment and compensation of Justices of the Supreme Court.

Section 11

SECTION 11. Appointment and compensation of Justices of the Supreme Court.—The Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines. The Chief Justice of the Supremo Court shall receive a compensation of seventy-five thousand pesos per annum, and each Associate Justice shall receive a compensation of sixty thousand pesos per annum. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall be so designated in his commission; and the Associate Justices shall have precedence according to the dates cf their respective commissions, or, when the commission of two or more of them bear the same date, according to the order in which their commissions may have been issued by the President of the Philippines: Provided, however, That a member of the Supreme Court appointed to any other branch of the government shall receive as compensation from the branch net less than his compensation in the Supreme Court Any such member who is re-appointed to that Court after rendering service in any ether branch of the government shall retain the precedence to which ho is entitled under his original appointment and his service in the Court shall, to all intents and purposes, be considered as continuous and uninterrupted.

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CitationPD 974 Section 11 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

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

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