[ Act No. 3727, November 21, 1930 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FIFTH PARAGRAPH OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED BY ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN.

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. The fifth paragraph of section two hundred and seven of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, commonly known as the Revised Administrative Code, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-one hundred and seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"In the future no person shall be appointed justice of the peace for any provincial capital who has not practised law in the Philippine Islands for at least two years or who, being a qualified lawyer, has not held for a like period the office of clerk of court, deputy clerk of a Court of First Instance in the Philippine Islands, law clerk or assistant law clerk in a bureau or office of the Insular Government, or any office in the Philippine Islands for which a lawyer's diploma is an indispensable requisite, and no person shall hereafter be appointed justice of the peace of any first-class municipality unless he has been admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved, November 21, 1930.

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