INCREASING THE SALARIES OF THE PRESIDING JUSTICE AND THE ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, THE PRESIDING JUDGES AND JUDGES OF SPECIALIZED COURTS, AND JUDGES OF LOWER C…

WHEREAS, under Section 10, Article X of the New
Constitution, which took effect on January 17, 1973, the annual salaries
of the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
have been increased to seventy-five thousand pesos (P75,000) and
sixty-thousand pesos (P60,000), respectively, which increases in pay
have been made effective by Presidential Decree No. 103, dated January
18, 1973;

WHEREAS, Section 6, Article XV of the New Constitution, has
removed the income tax exemption privileges previously enjoyed by
members of the Judiciary;

WHEREAS, in view of the removal of such exemption and
considering the duties and responsibilities of the Justices of the Court
of Appeals and the Judges of other inferior courts, it is necessary
that their salaries be fixed at commensurate levels;

WHEREAS, under Appropriation Decree No. 233, there has
already been appropriated the sum of P14,185,000 for salary
differentials of the Justices, Judges, and other officials of the
Judiciary;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, do hereby
decree as follows:

SECTION 1. The provisions of existing laws to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Presiding Justice and Associate Justices of the
Court of Appeals and the Presiding Judges and Judges of other inferior
courts shall receive the following salaries:

(a) The Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals shall
receive a salary of P54,000 per annum; and each Associate Justice
shall receive a salary of P50,000 per annum.

(b) The Judges of the Courts of First Instance, Circuit Criminal
Courts, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts shall each receive a
salary of P40,000 per annum.
(c) The Presiding Judges of the Court of Tax Appeals, the Court
of Agrarian Relations and the Court of Industrial Relations shall each
receive P42,000 per annum; and each of the Associate Judges of said
courts shall receive P40,000 per annum.

SEC. 2. The salary differentials resulting from the
adjustment of salaries as provided in this Decree shall be paid out of
the specific appropriation in Presidential Decree No. 233, which is
hereby programmed for expenditure effective as of January 1, 1974.

Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of January, in the year of Our
Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.