Full Title
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED SIXTY-THREE, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO LOSS OF CITIZENSHIP.
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View Official Gazette clipping - vol. 56 no. 38 (9/19/1960) page 5852
Congress
4th Congress of the Republic
House Bill No.
H. No. 1830
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Date of Approval
June 18, 1960

Other Details

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Legislative Issuance
Legislative Issuance Type
Republic Act
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Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette volume 56 number 38 (September 19, 1960) page 5852

Full Text of Issuance

June 18, 1960

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2639

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED SIXTY-THREE, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO LOSS OF CITIZENSHIP

SECTION 1. Section one of Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-three, as amended by Republic Act Numbered One hundred six, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:

"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 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 acquired." aisa dc

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 18, 1960

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 56, No. 38, p. 5852 on September 19, 1960.

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