R.A. 3040

REPUBLIC ACT No. 3040

AN ACT TO APPORTION REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS IN THE PHILIPPINES, AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE SECTION ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN AND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED.

Section 1. Section one hundred sixteen of the Administrative Code, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 116. Membership of House. The House of Representatives has one hundred twenty Members, consisting of one Member from each province of representative district hereinafter specified and apportioned as follows:

Section 2. Section one hundred twenty-three of the same Code, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 123. Representative districts in certain provinces. The provinces entitled to elect more than one Member are divided into representative districts as follows, each of which district shall elect one Member, thus constituting the full complement of the representation of such province;

Section 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval: Provided, That the representative districts herein apportioned shall be filled beginning with the general elections on November fourteen, nineteen hundred and sixty-one.

Approved: June 17, 1961