An Act Separating the City of Mandaue from the Sixth Legislative District of the Province of Cebu to Constitute the Lone Legislative District of the City of Mandaue
Year:
2019
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
April 5, 2019
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This Act separates the City of Mandaue from the Sixth Legislative District of the Province of Cebu, establishing it as the Lone Legislative District of the City of Mandaue. It aims to facilitate the representation of Mandaue in the Philippine Congress by allowing it to elect its own representative in future elections.Full Text
Seventeenth Congress
Third Regular Session
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-third day of July, two thousand eighteen.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 11257
An Act Separating the City of Mandaue from the Sixth Legislative District of the Province of Cebu to Constitute the Lone Legislative District of the City of Mandaue
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. The City of Mandaue is hereby separated from the Sixth Legislative District of the Province of Cebu to constitute the Lone Legislative District of the City of Mandaue, which shall commence in the next national and local elections after the effectivity of this Act.
Section 2. The incumbent Representative of the present Sixth Legislative District of the Lone District until the new Representative of the Lone Legislative District of the City of Mandaue shall have been elected and qualified.
Section 3. The Commission on Elections shall issue the necessary rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this Act within thirty (30) days after its effectivity.
Section 4. All laws, rules and regulations which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.
Section 5. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
Approved,
VICENTE C. SOTTO III
President of the Senate
GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO
Speaker of the House of Representatives
This Act which originated in the House of Representatives was passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Philippines on December 2, 2018 and February 4, 2019, respectively.
MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA
Secretary of the Senate
DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING
Acting Secretary General
House of Representatives
Approved: April 5, 2019
(Sgd.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines
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