THIRTEENTH CONGRXSS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
S. No. 
182 
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IN’I‘RODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VILLAR, J R .  
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This Bill seeks to amend Republic Act No. 910, as amended entitled “An Act to 
Provide the Retirement of Justices of the Supreme Court and of the Court of Appeals, 
for the Enforcement of the Provisions Hereof by the Government Service Insurance 
System, and to Repeal Commonwealth Act Numbered Five Hundred and Thirty Six.’’ 
On July 13, 2004, in an En Banc Resolution, The Supreme Court granted the 
request of the Retired RTC Judges Association that R.A. 910, as amended be amended 
in order that the Retired Judges, both first (RTC) and second (MTC) levels should 
receive the same monthly pension being receive by the incumbent Judges RTC and 
MTC. Said Resolution is quoted as follows: 
July 13, 2004 
“A.M. No. 04-5-12-SC. - Re: Request of Retired Judge Doroteo N. 
Cafieba, RTC, Manila, for the Retired RTC Judges Association.-Acting on 
the letter dated 11 May 2004 of retired Judge Doroteo N. Cdeba, 
requesting funding and/or allocation from the Judiciary Development 
Fund (JDF) for the increase in the retirement benefits under Republic Act 
No. 910, as amended, of retired Judges of the Regional Trial Court, the 
Court Resolved, upon the recommendation of the Office of the Chief 
Attorney, to DIRECT and AUTHORIZE the Court Administrator to assist 
the retired Judges in pursuing the passage of an amendatory law to 
Section 3-A of Republic Act No. 910, as amended by Republic Act No. 
1797, in order that retired judges of first and second level courts may 
enjoy an automatic increase in pensions upon an increase in salary or 
compensation of incumbent judges.” 
Consequently, the Supreme Court committed to fund the difference of the 
prevailing monthly pension of retired Judges so that their monthly pension will be at 
par with the incumbent Judges chargeable against the Judiciary Development Fund 
(JDF) of the Supreme Court. 
These being no problem as to the funding of this Bill, approval of the same is 
hereby recommended. 
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INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VILLAR, JR. 
AN ACT 
PROVIDING FOR THE RETIREMENT BENEFITS OF MEMBERS OF THE 
JUDICIARY, FURTHER AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE SECTION 1 OF REPUBLIC 
ACT NO. 910, AS AMENDED 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Section 1 of Republic Act No. 910, as amended, is hereby further 
amended to read as follows: 
SEC. 1. When a justice of the Supreme Court or of the Court of 
appeals(,) OR a judge of (Court of First Instance, Industrial 
Relations, 
Agrarian Relations, Tax Appeals, Juvenile and Domestic Relations, or a 
city or municipal judge) THE COURT OF TAX APPEALS, REGIONAL 
TRIAL COURT, METROPOLITAN TRIAL COURT, MUNICIPAL TRIAL 
COURT, 
MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT 
TRIAL COURT, SHARI'A DISTRICT 
COURT, SHARI'A CIRCUIT COURT OR ANY OTHER COURT HEREAFTER 
ESTABLISHED who has rendered at least twenty (20) years service in 
the judiciary or in any other branch of the Government, or in both, (a) 
retires for having attained the age of seventy years, or (b) resigns by 
reason of his incapacity to discharge the duties of his office, he shall 
receive during the residue of his natural life, in the manner hereinafter 
provided, the salary which he was receiving at the time of his retirement 
or resignation: PROVIDED, THAT THE AMOUNT THEREOF SHALL BE 
AUTOMATICALLY INCREASED WHENEVER THERE IS AN INCREASE 
IN THE 
SALARY OF INCUMBENT JUSTICES OR JUDGES OF THE 
SAME RANK. [And] When a justice of the Supreme Court or of the Court 
of Appeals(,) OR a judge of (Court of First Instance, Industrial Relations, 
Agrarian Relations, Tax Appeals, Juvenile and Domestic Relations, or a 
city or municipal judge) THE COURT OF TAX APPEALS, REGIONAL 
TRIAL COURT, METROPOLITAN TRIAL COURT, MUNICIPAL TRIAL 
COURT, MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURT, SHARI'A DISTRICT 
COURT, SHARIA CIRCUIT COURT OR ANY OTHER COURT HEREAFTER 
ESTABLISHED, has attained the age of sixty (60) year and has rendered 
at least twenty years service in the Government, the last five years of 
which shall have been continuously rendered in the judiciary, he shall 
likewise be entitled to retire and receive during the residue of his natural 
life, also in the manner hereinafter provided, the salary which he was 
then receiving. It is a condition of the pension provided for herein that 
no retiring justice or judge of a court of record or city or municipal judge 
during the time that he is receiving said pension shall appear as counsel 
before any court in any civil case wherein the Government or any 
subdivision or instrumentality thereof is the adverse party, or in any 
criminal 
case wherein an officer or employee of the Government is 
accused of an offense committed in relation to his office, or collect any 
fee for his appearance in any administrative proceedings to maintain an 


interest adverse to the Government, national, provincial or municipal, or 
to any of its legally constituted officers. It is also a condition of the 
pension provided for herein that when a member of the judiciary entitled 
to the benefits of this Act shall assume an elective public office, he shall 
not, upon assumption of office and during his term, receive the monthly 
pension due him. 
SECTION 2. Such sum coming from the Judiciary Development Fund (JDF) of the 
Supreme Court 
as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this amendatory 
Act 
pursuant to the EN BANC Resolution, dated July 13,2004 under AM No. 04-5-12- 
SC shall be made available by the Supreme Court. 
SECTION 3. All laws, degrees, orders, rules and regulations, and all other 
issuances, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. 
SECTION 4. If any part or provisions of this Act is held unconstitutional or 
invalid, other parts of provisions hereof which are not affected thereby shall continue 
to be in full force and effect. 
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect after fifteen (15) days following its 
complete publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved,