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."

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

Approved: June 18, 1960


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