AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 1 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9727, REAPPORTIONING THE PROVINCE OF CAVITE INTO EIGHT (8) LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS

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. 11069

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 1 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9727, REAPPORTIONING THE PROVINCE OF CAVITE INTO EIGHT (8) LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1. Section 1 of Republic Act No. 9727 is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 2. Incumbent Representatives. – The incumbent Representatives of the Sixth and Seventh Legislative Districts of the Province of Cavite shall continue to represent their respective legislative districts until the new Representative shall have been elected and qualified.

Section 3. Rules and Regulations. – The Commission on Elections shall issue the necessary rules and regulations within thirty (30) days upon the approval of this Act.

Section 4. Repealing Clause. – Republic Act No. 9727 and all other laws, rules and regulations which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.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 15, 2017, amended by the Senate on March 5, 2018, and which amendments were concurred in by the House of Representatives on July 31, 2018.

MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA
Secretary of the Senate

DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING
Acting Secretary General
House of Representatives

Approved: September 14, 2018

(Sgd.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines

"Section 1. Legislative Districts. — The Province of Cavite, which shall have eight (8) legislative districts to commence on the next national and local elections after the effectivity of this Act, is hereby reapportioned as follows: