Amendment to R.A. No. 1125 (Creation of Court of Tax Appeals)
Republic Act No. 3457, enacted on June 16, 1962, amends the original Republic Act No. 1125, which established the Court of Tax Appeals in the Philippines. The amended provisions detail the structure of the court, consisting of a Presiding Judge and two Associate Judges, all appointed by the President with the Commission on Appointments' consent. The compensation for the Presiding Judge is set at eighteen thousand pesos annually, while Associate Judges will earn seventeen thousand pesos. The judges serve during good behavior until the age of seventy or until incapacitated, and the act includes a budget allocation for its implementation. This law took effect on January 1, 1962.
June 16, 1962
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3457
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE, ENTITLED "AN ACT CREATING THE COURT OF TAX APPEALS," AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
SECTION 1. Section one of Republic Act Numbered One thousand one hundred and twenty-five is hereby amended to read as follows: cd
"Sec. 1. Court; judges; qualifications; salary; tenure. — There is hereby created a Court of Tax Appeals which shall consist of a Presiding Judge and two Associate Judges, each of whom shall be appointed by the President, with the consent of the Commission on Appointments. The Presiding Judge shall be so designated in the commission issued to him by the President, and the Associate Judges shall have precedence according to the date of their commissions. The Presiding Judge shall receive a compensation of eighteen thousand pesos per annum and shall have the same qualifications, rank, category and privileges as the Presiding Judge of the Court of Industrial Relations. The Associate Judges shall each receive a compensation of seventeen thousand pesos per annum and shall have the same qualifications, rank, category and privileges as a member of the Court of Industrial Relations. The Presiding Judge and the Associate Judges shall be appointed to hold office during good behavior, until they reach the age of seventy, or become incapacitated to discharge the duties of their office, unless sooner removed for the same causes and in the same manner provided by law for members of the judiciary of appellate rank."
SECTION 2. The sum of twelve thousand pesos or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the provisions of this Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-one to nineteen hundred sixty-two. Thereafter, such amount as may be necessary shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect as of January first, nineteen hundred and sixty-two.
Approved: June 16, 1962.
Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 58, No. 42, p. 6845 on October 15, 1962