An Act Setting a New Time Limit Within Which Imperfect or Incomplete Titles Covering Lands of the Public Domain May be Judicially Confirmed, Amending for This Purpose Sections Forty-Five and Forty-Seven of the Public Land Act, as Amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Ninety-Two

REPUBLIC ACT No. 106

An Act Setting a New Time Limit Within Which Imperfect or Incomplete Titles Covering Lands of the Public Domain May be Judicially Confirmed, Amending for This Purpose Sections Forty-Five and Forty-Seven of the Public Land Act, as Amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Ninety-Two

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. Section one of Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-three is amended to read as follows:

Section 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval, but the benefits thereunder shall accrue to persons who, prior thereto, have lost Philippine citizenship under the provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-three but come within the proviso of paragraph (4) of section one of said Act as herein amended.

Approved: June 2, 1947

"Sec. 1. How citizenship may be lost.— A Filipino citizen may lose his citizenship in any of the following ways and/or events:

"(a) The Republic of the Philippines has a defensive and/or offensive pact of alliance with the said foreign country; or

"(b) The said foreign country maintains armed forces on Philippine territory with the consent of the Republic of the Philippines: Provided, That the Filipino citizen concerned, at the time of rendering said service, or acceptance of said commission, and taking the oath of allegiance incident thereto, states that he does so only in connection with his service to said foreign country: And Provided, finally, That any Filipino citizen who is rendering service to, or is commissioned in, the armed forces of a foreign country under any of the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (a) and (b), shall not be permitted to participate nor vote in any election of the Republic of the Philippines during the period of his service to, or commission in, the armed forces of said foreign country. Upon his discharge from the service of the said foreign country, he shall be automatically entitled to the full enjoyment of his civil and political rights as a Filipino citizen;