An Act Providing for the Reapportionment of the Province of Southern Leyte Into Two (2) Legislative Districts
Year:
2019
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
February 1, 2019
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This Act provides for the reapportionment of the Province of Southern Leyte into two legislative districts. It aims to enhance representation in the legislative assembly by dividing the province into two distinct districts for the 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. 11198
An Act Providing for the Reapportionment of the Province of Southern Leyte Into Two (2) Legislative Districts
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. Legislative Districts. - On the next national and local elections after the effectivity of this Act, the Province of Southern Leyte is hereby reappointed into two (2) legislative districts, as follows:
Section 2. Holdover. - The incumbent Representative of the Lone Legislative District of the Province of Southern Leyte shall continue to represent the legislative district until the new representatives of the First and Second Legislative Districts shall have been duly elected and qualified.
Section 3. Implementing 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 - All laws, rules and regulations which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed, or modified accordingly.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 September 20, 2017, amended by the Senate on September 3, 2018, and which amendments were concurred in by the House of Representatives on December 3, 2018.
MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA
Secretary of the Senate
DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING
Acting Secretary General
House of Representatives
Approved: February 1, 2019
(Sgd.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines
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