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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5052
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5052 - AN ACT PROVIDING TWO ADDITIONAL JUDGES FOR THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT TO PRESIDE OVER THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF BULACAN, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE SECTIONS FIFTY AND FIFTY-TWO OF THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1948

Section 1. The fifth paragraph of Section fifty of Republic Act Numbered Two hundred ninety-six, otherwise known as the Judiciary Act of 1948, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

"Nine judges shall be commissioned for the Fifth Judicial District. Three judges shall preside over the Court of First Instance of Pampanga and shall be known as judges of the first, second and third branches thereof, respectively; one judge shall preside over the Court of First Instance of Bataan; and five judges shall preside over the Court of First Instance of Bulacan and shall be known as judges of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth branches thereof, respectively."

Sec. 2. The seventh paragraph of Section fifty-two of the same Act, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

"For the Fifth Judicial District, two judges shall be stationed in the Municipality of San Fernando, Province of Pampanga; and one judge shall be stationed in the Municipality of Guagua, Province of Pampanga; one judge in the Municipality of Balanga, Province of Bataan; two judges in the Municipality of Malolos, Province of Bulacan; the judge of the third branch, in the Municipality of Valenzeula, same province; and those of the fourth and fifth branches, in the municipalities of Baliwag and Sta. Maria, same province, respectively.

Sec. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand pesos or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.

Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Enacted without Executive approval, June 17, 1967.

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