[ Act No. 3564, November 26, 1929 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED BY ACTS NUMBERED TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE AND THIRTY-ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN, IN THE SENSE THAT A JUDGE OF FIRST INSTANCE DETAILED TO A DISTRICT OR PROVINCE OTHER THAN HIS OWN MAY TRY ALL KINDS OF CASES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of  the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the
same:

SECTION 1. Section one hundred and fifty-five of Act Numbered
Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, as
amended by Acts Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and forty-one and
Thirty-one hundred and seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:
    

"SEC. 155. Detail of judge to another
district or province.—If the public interest and
the speedy administration of justice so require, a judge of first
instance may be detailed by the Secretary of Justice to temporary duty,
for a period which shall in no case exceed six months, in a district or
province other than his own for the purpose of trying all kinds of
cases." 

SEC. 2. Section one hundred and fifty-eight of the same Act, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
    

"SEC. 158. Official stations of
auxiliary judges.—One auxiliary judge shall be
stationed at Vigan, Province of Ilocos Sur; one auxiliary judge shall
be stationed at Lingayen, Province of Pangasinan, and another at
Iloilo, Province of Iloilo; one at Cabanatuan, Province of Nueva Ecija;
one at San Fernando, Province of Pampanga; one in the City of Manila;
one at San Pablo, Province of Laguna; one at Lucena, Province of
Tayabas; one at Legaspi, Province of Albay; one at Maasin, Province of
Leyte; one at Cebu, Province of Cebu; one at Sorsogon, Province of
Sorsogon; one at Tagbilaran, Province of Bohol; one at Bacolod, Province
of Occidental Negros; and one at Jolo, Province of Sulu. 

"The provisions of this section to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Secretary of Justice is hereby authorized to change
the station of the auxiliary judges from time to time if the interests
of the administration of justice require it."

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 26, 1929.

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