SECTION 1. Filing fees. - No protest, counter-protest or petition for quo warranto shall be accepted for filing without the payment of a filing fee in the amount of Three Thousand Pesos (P3,000.00) for each interest. If claims for damages and attorney's fees are set forth in a protest or counter-protest, additional filing fees shall be paid in accordance with the schedule provided for in Rule 141 of the Rules of Court, as amended.

SEC. 2. Cash deposit. -

1. In addition to the fees prescribed in the preceding section, the protestant in an election protest requiring revision of ballots or examination, verification or re-tabulation of election returns, or which may require the bringing to the court of copies of other election documents and paraphernalia, shall make a cash deposit with the court in the following amounts:
1. One Thousand Pesos (P1,000.00) for each precinct involved in the protest or counter-protest; provided that, in no case shall the deposit be less than Twenty-Five Thousand Pesos (P25,000.00) to be paid upon the filing of the election protest (counter-protest);


2. If the amount to be deposited does not exceed One Hundred Thousand Pesos (P100,000.00), the same shall be paid in full within ten days after the filing of the protest; and


3. If the deposit exceeds One Hundred Thousand Pesos (P100,000.00), a cash deposit in the amount of One Hundred Thousand Pesos (P100,000.00) shall be made within ten days after the filing of the protest. The balance shall be paid in such installments as may be required by the court with at least five days advance notice to the party required to make the deposit.

The cash deposit shall be applied by the court to the payment of the compensation of revisors as provided under Section 3, Rule 10 of these Rules and of all expenses incidental to revision but not limited to supplies and miscellaneous expenses of the revision committee. When the court determines that the circumstances so demand, as when the deposit has been depleted, it may require additional cash deposits. Any unused cash deposit shall be returned to the party making the same after complete termination of the protest or counter-protest.

The same amount of cash deposit shall be required from the protestee (counter-protestant), should continuation of revision be ordered pursuant to paragraph 2, Section 9, Rule 10 of these Rules. Once required, the protestee (counter-protestant) shall pay the cash deposit within a non-extendible period of three days from receipt of the corresponding order.

2. Failure to make the cash deposits required within the prescribed time limit shall result in the automatic dismissal of the protest, or counter-protest.

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