An Act Reapportioning the First Legislative District of the Province of South Cotabato Thereby Creating the Lone Legislative District of General Santos City
Year:
2019
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
March 11, 2019
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This Act reapportions the First Legislative District of the Province of South Cotabato to create the Lone Legislative District of General Santos City. It aims to facilitate representation for the newly established district in upcoming national and local 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. 11243
An Act Reapportioning the First Legislative District of the Province of South Cotabato Thereby Creating the Lone Legislative District of General Santos City
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. Reapportioning of the First Legislative District. - The First Legislative District of the Province of South Cotabato is hereby reapportioned in order to create the Lone Legislative District of General Santos City to commence in the next national and local elections after the effectivity of this Act. The Legislative Districts of the Province shall now be composed of the following:
Section 2. Holdover. - The incumbent Representatives of the present First and Second Legislative Districts of the Province of South Cotabato shall continue to represent the districts until the new Representatives shall have been elected and qualified.
Section 3. Rules and Regulations. - The Commission on Elections shall issue the necessary rules and regulations to implement this Act within thirty (30) days after its effectivity.
Section 4. Repealing Clause. - All laws, rules and regulations which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.
Section 5. Effectivity. - 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 on May 2, 2017, amended by the Senate on September 3, 2018, and which amendments were concurred in by the House of Representatives on January 29, 2019.
MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA
Secretary of the Senate
DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING
Acting Secretary General
House of Representatives
Approved: March 11, 2019
(Sgd.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines
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