Section 8Sec./Art. 8

Salaries. - Unless otherwise provided by the Regional Assembly, a member of the Regional Assembly shall receive an annual salary of One hundred eighty thousand pesos (P180,000) except the Speaker of the Regional Assembly who shall receive an annual salary of Two hundred thousand pesos (P200,000), subject to the Salary Standardization Law.

The annual compensation of the Speaker and Members of the Regional Assembly may be increased by the Regional Assembly in accordance with existing laws on position classification and compensation of the central government or national government. The increase shall, however, not take effect until after the expiration of the terms of office of the members of the assembly who had approved the increase. The increase shall be funded solely from revenue raised by the Regional Government. No funds or parts thereof provided by the central government or national government for the Regional Government shall be used for salaries, honoraria, per diems or to increase the salaries, honoraria or per diems of the officials or employees of the Regional Government.

They shall not receive during their tenure other emoluments from the Regional Government or from the central government or national government.