Section 7
SEC. 7. Unless the City Charter or any special law provides higher salary, the city judge in chartered cities shall receive a basic salary which shall not be lower than the sums as provided hereinbelow: (a) For the City of Manila, twenty-two thousand pesos per annum; (b) For the cities of Baguio, Quezon, Pasay, Cebu, Caloocan and other first class cities, nineteen thousand pesos per annum; (c) For second and third class cities, eighteen thousand pesos per annum; (d) For other cities, sixteen thousand pesos per annum: Provided, however, That the difference between the present salary for the city judges and that herein fixed shall be paid out of the funds in the city treasury, but the payment of said salary difference shall be subject to the implementation of the respective city government: Provided, further, That part of the salary of the city judges which is now paid by the National Government as provided for under Republic Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred twenty shall continue to be paid out of the funds in the National Treasury, except the salaries of the City Judges of Manila, Baguio, Quezon, Pasay, Cebu and other first class cities which shall be paid by the respective city government: Provided, also, That city judges of first class cities whose salaries, at the time of the approval of this Act, are partly paid by the city government and partly paid by the National Government as provided in Republic Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred twenty shall continue to be paid under said Act but the difference in salary fixed therein and that herein fixed shall be paid by the respective city government. Henceforth, unless the city charter or any special law provides higher salary, and subject to the implementation of the respective city government, the salary of the city judges of chartered cities may be raised by the City Council, if and when the salary of the district judge of the Court of First Instance is likewise raised, as follows: For the City of Manila, the city judge shall receive one thousand pesos less than the salary fixed for the district judge; For the cities of Baguio, Quezon, Pasay and other first class cities, the city judge shall receive one thousand pesos less than that fixed for the district judge, and for second and third class cities, the city judge shall receive one thousand five hundred pesos less than that fixed for the district judge, and for other cities, the city judge shall receive two thousand pesos less than that fixed for the district judge: Provided, however, That the salary of a city judge shall be at least one hundred pesos per month less than that of the city mayor.