Practice question
After approval of the Judiciary's total budget, a judicial appropriation item is deficient and another judicial item has lawful savings. All other legal conditions are met. Who is expressly authorized by RA 12233 to augment the deficient judicial item from those savings?
- Any provincial governor
- Any individual trial judge without further authority
- The Chief Justice
- A private litigant who paid a filing fee
- The Secretary of Justice acting as court administrator
Legal references
- Republic Act No. 12233, Judiciary Fiscal Autonomy Act, August 14, 2025: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/99555; Section 4(a).
- 1987 Constitution, Article VI, Section 25(5): https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353
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