An Act to Amend Section One Hundred and Thirty-Four of the Administrative Code, as Amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Three.

[ Commonwealth Act No. 639, June 10, 1941 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED BY COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED THREE.

Be it enacted by the Notional Assembly of the Philippines;

Section 1.Section one hundred and thirty-four of the Administrative; Code, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Three, is further amended to read as follows:

"Section 134.Appointment of Justices of the Supreme Court.- The Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines, With the consent of the Commission on Appointments.ℒαwρhi৷The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall be so designated in his Commission; and the Associate Justices shall have precedence according to the dates of their respective commissions, or, when the commissions of two or more o f than bear the same date, according to the order in which their commissions may have been issued by the President of the Philippines:Provided, however,That any member of the Supreme Court who has been reappointed to that court after rendering service in any other branch o f the Government shall retain the precedence to which he is entitled under his original appointment and hi s service in the court shall, to all intents and purposes he considered as continuous and uninterrupted."

Section 2.This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 10, 1941.