An Act Amending Section One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-Six of the Revised Administrative Code so as to Include Other Lawyers to Assist the Fiscals

REPUBLIC ACT No. 1277

An Act Amending Section One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-Six of the Revised Administrative Code so as to Include Other Lawyers to Assist the Fiscals

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

Section 1. Section one thousand six hundred eighty-six of the Revised Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

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

Approved: June 14, 1955.

"Sec. 1686. Additional counsel to assist fiscal.— The Secretary of Justice may appoint any lawyer in the government service, or a competent person but not in the public service, temporarily to assist a fiscal or prosecuting attorney in the discharge of his duties, and with the same authority therein as might be exercised by the Solicitor General: Provided, That if the person to be appointed in the public service is outside the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice, such appointment may only be made with the consent of the department head concerned."

"In addition to travel expenses, such appointee, if not in the government service, shall receive such compensation as shall be stipulated for, not exceeding thirty pesos per day for the time employed."