[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 780, March 09, 1982 ]

AUTHORIZING INCREASES IN SALARY TO SOLICITORS AND LAWYERS IN THE OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR GENERAL



WHEREAS, P.D. No. 1726 provides for a new schedule of salaries for lawyers in the Ministry of Justice and its bureau and offices; and

WHEREAS, position in the Office of the Solicitor General did not come under the operation of said Decree; and

WHEREAS, there is a close relationship between the qualification requirements for Fiscals, State Prosecutors, State Counsels in the Ministry of Justice and Solicitors in the Office of the Solicitor General; and

WHEREAS, there is a need to align the salaries of Solicitors and lawyers in the Office of the Solicitor General with lawyers in the Ministry of Justice in the light of new salary rates under P.D. No. 1726;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order and direct:

SECTION 1. The salaries of Solicitors and Trial Attorneys of the Office of the Solicitor General shall be in accordance with the following rates:

No. of Positions

Title

Salary Rate

10

Assistant Solicitor  General

P55,536

10

Solicitor VI

52,848

10

Solicitor V

50,292

10

Solicitor IV

47,856

10

Solicitor III

43,332

10

Solicitor II

41,232

10

Solicitor I

37,344

7

Trial Attorney

32,184

7

Trial Attorney

30,624

6

Trial Attorney

29,148

SECTION 2. Funds needed to implement this Order shall be drawn from salary lapses and savings of the Office of the Solicitor General. Any further augmentation shall come from the Salary Adjustment Fund in the CY 1981 General Appropriations Act and from budgetary reserves. Funds intended to carry out this Order for succeeding fiscal years shall be incorporated in the annual appropriations of the Office of the Solicitor General.

SECTION 3. The rules and regulations necessary to carry out this Order shall be formulated and issued by the Ministry of the Budget.

SECTION 4. This Order shall take effect January 1, 1982.

Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-two.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant