An Act to Provide One Additional Assistant Provincial Fiscal for the Province of Samar, Amending for the Purpose Section Sixteen Hundred Seventy-Four of the Administrative Code, as Amended

REPUBLIC ACT No. 2208

An Act to Provide One Additional Assistant Provincial Fiscal for the Province of Samar, Amending for the Purpose Section Sixteen Hundred Seventy-Four of the Administrative Code, as Amended

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. Section sixteen hundred seventy-four of the Administrative Code, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Seventeen hundred ninety-nine, is further amended to read as follows:

Section 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: May 15, 1959.

"Section 1674.  Assistant Provincial Fiscals.— In the following provinces there shall be assistant provincial fiscals in such numbers as are hereinafter provided:

Provided, That one assistant provincial fiscal shall be assigned to the Subprovince of Siquijor with station at Larena;

Assistant provincial fiscals shall receive such salaries as hereinafter provided:

"These officers shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the Congress of the Philippines, and their salaries shall be paid by the provinces concerned, The salary of the assistant provincial fiscal shall be included in the annual appropriation of the province in the same manner as the salary of the provincial fiscal. To be eligible for appointment to this position, a person must be a citizen of the Philippines who has been duly admitted to practice law in the Court of said Islands, and has been in actual practice for at least five years prior to his appointment: Provided, However, That incumbent assistant provincial fiscals whose appointments have been duly acted upon and approved by the Commission on Appointments of the Congress of the Philippines prior to the approval of this Act, shall be deemed reappointed and their appointments confirmed and, therefore, entitled to the benefits of this Act."