An Act Establishing the City Prosecution Service in the City of Navotas, Amending for the Purpose Section 55 of Republic Act No. 9387, Otherwise Known as the "Charter of the City of Navotas"
Year:
2019
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Other
Date Approved:
February 21, 2019
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This Act establishes the City Prosecution Service in Navotas, amending the existing provisions of the Charter of the City of Navotas. It aims to enhance the prosecution of cases and ensure the adequacy and quality of prosecution services in the city.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. 11221
An Act Establishing the City Prosecution Service in the City of Navotas, Amending for the Purpose Section 55 of Republic Act No. 9387, Otherwise Known as the "Charter of the City of Navotas"
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. Section 55 of Republic Act No. 9387, otherwise known as the "Charter of the City of Navotas", is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 2. The Department of Justice and the Department of Budget and Management are hereby directed to implement this Act.
Section 3. All laws, decrees, executive orders, rules and regulations which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby amended, repealed or modified accordingly.
Section 4. 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 on May 2, 2017 and November 19, 2018, respectively.
MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA
Secretary of the Senate
DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING
Acting Secretary General
House of Representatives
Approved: February 21, 2019
(Sgd.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines
"Section 55. Ihe Office of the City Prosecution Service and Public Schools Division.—
"The Secretary of Justice shall always ensure the adequacy and the quality of prosecution service in the City of Navotas and, for this purpose, shall, in the absence, lack or insufficiency in the number of assistant city prosecutors as provided hereinabove, designate from among the assistant provincial prosecutors a sufficient number to perform and discharge the functions of the City Prosecution Service.
"Likewise, the public schools division for the cities of Malabon and Navotas shall continue to administer public education in both local government units."
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