Creation of Southern Leyte Province

Section 3 sets the provincial capital of Southern Leyte as the town of Maasin.
Section 2 ensures that the province follows the general legal framework for regularly organized provinces, subject to the Act’s exceptions.

Section 4 provides that the first provincial governor and members of the Provincial Board of Southern Leyte are appointed by the President of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission on Appointments.
Section 4 provides that the appointed officials hold office until their successors shall have been elected in the regular election next following the effectivity of this Act and shall have qualified.
Section 4 directs that the officers and employees needed to organize the government of Southern Leyte are appointed as provided by law.

Section 5 provides that Southern Leyte has one Representative in the House of Representatives.
Section 5 provides that Leyte has four Representatives in the House of Representatives.
Section 5 provides that the incumbent Representatives from the present Province of Leyte continue to represent the districts for which they were elected until the expiration of their respective terms of office.
Section 6 provides that effective on the date of the regular election for Members of the House of Representatives next following approval of the Act, the Fourth, Fifth, First, and Second Representative Districts of the present Province of Leyte shall be known as the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Representative Districts of Leyte, respectively.

Section 7 requires a proportional division of obligations, funds, assets, and other properties of the present Province of Leyte between Leyte and Southern Leyte.
Section 7 directs that the division is made upon the recommendation of the Auditor General by the President of the Philippines.
Section 7 states that the division occurs upon the effectivity of this Act.

Section 8 provides that the Act takes effect on the first day of July, nineteen hundred sixty.