[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3834, June 22, 1963 ]

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 Philippines in 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:

"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 acquired."


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

Approved, June 22, 1963.