An Act to Amend the Last Paragraph of Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-Three, as Amended, Relating to Loss of Citizenship
Year:
1963
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
June 22, 1963
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This Act amends the last paragraph of Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-Three, which relates to the loss of Philippine citizenship. It ensures that natural born Filipino citizens acquiring citizenship from certain countries will not lose their Philippine citizenship if agreed upon by treaty.Full Text
REPUBLIC ACT No. 3834
An Act to Amend the Last Paragraph of Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-Three, as Amended, Relating to Loss of Citizenship
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. The last paragraph of Section one of Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-three, as amended by Republic Acts Numbered One hundred six and Twenty-six hundred thirty-nine, is amended to read as follows:
Section 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: June 22, 1963.
"The provisions of this section notwithstanding, the acquisition of citizenship by a natural born Filipino citizen from one of the Iberian and any friendly democratic Ibero-American countries or from the United Kingdom shall not produce loss or forfeiture of his Philippine citizenship if the law of that country grants the same privilege to its citizens and such had been agreed upon by treaty between the Philippines and the foreign country from which citizenship is required."
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