AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED BY REPUBLIC ACTS NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-FOUR AND ELEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT, RELATIVE TO OFFICES OF REGISTERS OF DEEDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 3674

AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED BY REPUBLIC ACTS NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-FOUR AND ELEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT, RELATIVE TO OFFICES OF REGISTERS OF DEEDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Section 1. Sections one hundred ninety-two, one hundred ninety-two (b), and two hundred one of the Administrative Code, as amended by Republic Acts Numbered One hundred sixty-four and Eleven hundred thirty-eight, are hereby amended further to read as follows:

"Sec. 192. Office of register of deeds. There shall be one register of deeds for each city and one for each province, except in the Mountain Province, where there shall be two; one for the Subprovince of Benguet and another for the rest of the province: Provided, however, That the register of deeds of the City of Baguio or whoever performs his duties shall be ex officio register of said city.

"Sec. 192. (b). Salaries of registers of deeds. The salary of the register of deeds of the City of Manila shall be ten thousand eight hundred pesos per annum: (1) That of the registers of deeds of the provinces of Negros Occidental and Rizal, and Quezon City, nine thousand six hundred pesos per annum; (2) That of the registers of deeds of the provinces of Batangas, Bulacan, Cebu, Iloilo, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Quezon, and Tarlac, eight thousand four hundred pesos per annum; (3) That of the registers of deeds of the provinces of Camarines Sur, Cavite, Cotabato, Davao, Isabela, Laguna, La Union, and Pasay City, seven thousand two hundred pesos per annum; (4) That of the registers of deeds of the provinces of Albay, Bohol, Cagayan, Camarines Norte, Capiz, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Leyte, Mindoro Oriental, Misamis Occidental, Misamis Oriental, Negros Oriental, Nueva Vizcaya, Zambales, Zamboanga del Norte, and Zamboanga del Sur and the cities of Baguio and Lipa, six thousand pesos per annum; (5) That of the registers of deeds of the provinces of Agusan, Antique, Bataan, Bukidnon, Lanao del Norte, Mindoro Occidental, Samar, Sorsogon, and Surigao, the cities of Cavite, Dagupan, Ormoc, San Pablo, and Zamboanga, four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; and (6) That of the registers of deeds of other cities and provinces three thousand six hundred pesos per annum.

"Sec. 201. Discharge of duties of register of deeds in case of vacancy, etc. Until a regular register of deeds shall have been appointed for a city or province, or in case of vacancy in the office, or upon the occasion of the absence, illness, suspension, or inability of the register of deeds to discharge his duties, said duties shall be performed by the following officials, in the order in which they are mentioned below, unless the Secretary of Justice designate another official to act temporarily in the place:

"In case of absence, disability or suspension of the register of deeds, without pay, or in case of vacancy in the position, the Secretary of Justice may, in his discretion, authorize the payment of an additional compensation to the official acting as register of deeds, such compensation with his actual salary shall not exceed the salary authorized for the position thus filled by him."

Section 2. The sum of one hundred fifty thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds existing in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be made available for carrying into effect the salary increases provided for in this Act.

Section 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 22, 1963