Section 12Sec./Art. 12

Realignment of the Position Items. - Upon the approval of this Act, the Prosecutor General shall transfer vacant excess position items of prosecutors to the cities within the province or to the province of which the cities used to be municipalities or to other cities within the province: Provided, however, That if the position items are occupied , they shall be transferred as soon as they become vacant or when the incumbent prosecutors consent to their transfer.

When new cities or provinces are created and court branch seats are realigned or redistributed, the Secretary of Justice shall correspondingly realign position items of prosecutors to the new cities or provinces from the provinces where cities are located or the provinces used to be part of, without prejudice to the provision of Section 8 hereof.

After the approval of this Act, branches of the Regional Trial Court that are seated t the city and hitherto try and hear criminal cases filed by either the office of the provincial prosecutor or office of the city prosecutor shall proportionally divide themselves into branches where criminal and other cases filed , and those to be prosecuted and or defended by the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor shall be exclusively raffled to, tried and heard, and branches where criminal and other cases filed, and those to be prosecuted or defended by the Office of the City Prosecutor shall be exclusively raffled to, tried and heard. Upon such division, the Secretary of Justice shall also realign position items of prosecutor of the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor and the Office of the City Prosecutor affected.