Amendments to Revised Administrative Code Re: Office of Provincial Fiscal

June 18, 1960

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2673

AN ACT TO FURTHER AMEND SECTIONS SIXTEEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-THREE AND SIXTEEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AS AMENDED

SECTION 1. Section sixteen hundred seventy-three of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 1673. Office of provincial fiscal. — Except as otherwise provided, there shall be a provincial fiscal for each province. To be eligible for appointment to this position, a person shall be a citizen of the Philippines, who has been duly admitted to practice in the courts of the Philippines, and has been in actual practice for at least six years prior to his appointment, or has held during a like period, within the Philippines, the office of clerk of court, law clerk in a bureau of the National Government, or an office requiring the services of a lawyer. He must be able to speak and write the Spanish language or the English language and, being conversant with one, he shall have at least a fair knowledge of the other. No person shall hold the office of city fiscal, or assistant city fiscal of Manila, provincial fiscal, or assistant provincial fiscal after he attains the age of sixty-five years; and after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, any city fiscal or assistant city fiscal of Manila, provincial fiscal, or assistant provincial fiscal over sixty-five years of age shall vacate his office. cdt

"The salary of the provincial fiscal and all other expenses incident to the maintenance of his office shall be paid by the province or provinces to which the service rendered pertains.

"Clerks, interpreters, and other subordinates in the office of the provincial fiscal shall be appointed and their salaries fixed in the same manner as in the case of employees in other provincial offices."

SECTION 2. Section sixteen hundred seventy-four of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended, insofar as it concerns the number of assistant provincial fiscals in the Province of Ilocos Sur, is further amended to read as follows:

"Ilocos Sur, six assistant provincial fiscals;"

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

Approved: June 18, 1960

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 56, No. 46, p. 7025 on November 14, 1960