GENERAL ORDER NO. 39, September 19, 1973

[ GENERAL ORDER NO. 39, September 19, 1973 ]

AMENDING GENERAL ORDER NO. 12, DATED SEPTEMBER 30, 1972, BY GIVING MILITARY TRIBUNALS CONCURRENT JURISDICTION OVER CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST TOURISTS AND TRANSIENTS.

General Order No. 12, dated September 30, 1972, as amended, is further amended by adding the following provision:

"23. Crimes where the offended party is a tourist or a transient."

The civil courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the military tribunals over the said crimes, provided that civil courts shall dispose of such cases within 24 hours after the filing thereof by the arresting officers. The courts or tribunal that first assumes jurisdiction shall exercise jurisdiction to the exclusion of all others.

Done in the City of Manila, this 19th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ROBERTO V. REYES

Acting Executive Secretary