SECTION 1. Four (4) additional branches of the Regional Trial Court to be stationed in San Pablo City, Province of Laguna are hereby created in the Fourth Judicial Region.

The Supreme Court shall assign the respective branch numbers of the newly created branches of the Regional Trial Court in the Ninth Judicial Region.

SEC. 2. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, in coordination with the Secretary of the Department of Justice, shall immediately include in Court's program the operationalization of the four (4) additional branches of the Regional Trial Court branch to be stationed in San Pablo City, Province of Laguna. The funds necessary for the operation of the courts herein created shall be appropriated and released only upon the actual organization of the court and the appointment of its personnel.

SEC. 3. Section 14(e) of Batas Pambansa Blg. 129, otherwise known as "The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980", as amended, and all other laws, rules and regulations which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby amended, repealed or modified accordingly.

SEC. 4 .This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in any newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,

 

(SGD.) VICENTE C. SOTTO III             President of the Senate

(SGD.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO            Speaker of the House of Representatives

This Act which originated in the House of Representatives was passed by the House of Representatives on May 15, 2018, as amended by the Senate of the Philippines on May 27, 2019 and which amendments were concurred in by the House of Representatives on June 3, 2019.

 

(SGD.) MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA             Secretary of the Senate

(SGD.) DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING             Acting Secretary General House of Representatives

Approved: AUG 22 2019

(SGD.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
    President of the Philippines