Qualifications of Judges: their Tenure of Office: Compensation: Oath of Office: and Vacation Period.
Section 3
SEC. 3. Qualifications of Judges: their Tenure of Office: Compensation: Oath of Office: and Vacation Period.—The Executive Judge and the Associate Judges shall have the same qualifications as Judges of the Court of First Instance and in addition, shall have engaged in the actual practice of law for at least ten years immediately prior to their appointments. They shall hold office during good behavior until they roach the age of seventy years or become incapacitated to discharge the duties of their office. The Executive Judge shall receive an annual compensation of eleven thousand pesos and the Associate Judges ten thousand pesos each. They shall be entitled to traveling expenses and per diems when performing their duties outside of their official stations. Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of their office, the Judges shall take and subscribe to an oath of office wherein they declare, in addition to the matters prescribed in Section twenty-three of the Administrative Code and in the Constitution of the Philippines, that they shall faithfully and impartially perform the duties of their office, and that, except in the discharge of their functions, they will not disclose to any person any evidence or other matter brought before the Court. The yearly vacation of the Court shall begin on the 1st day of April and close on the thirty-first day of May of each year, and four of the Judges may be allowed simultaneously to be on vacation. Before March fifteenth of each year, the Executive Judge shall designate by rotation the Judges who are to remain on duty during court vacation of that year and, consistently with the requirements of the judicial service, the assignments shall be so made that no Judge shall be allowed to be on vacation, unless upon his own request, more frequent than once every two years.