QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 6955)
To protect Filipino women from exploitation and to ensure and guarantee a decent standard of living, particularly in their pursuit of economic upliftment.
It is unlawful to (1) establish/carry on a business matching Filipino women for marriage to foreign nationals on a mail-order basis or through personal introduction; (2) advertise/publish/print/distribute propaganda materials calculated to promote the prohibited matching; (3) solicit/enlist/induce Filipino women to join clubs/associations whose objective is such matching (including for a fee/free); and (4) use the postal service to promote the prohibited acts.
Yes. It expressly includes matching Filipino women to foreign nationals both on a mail-order basis and through personal introduction.
Using the postal service to promote the prohibited matching acts is itself declared unlawful.
Newspaper, magazine, television/radio stations, media, advertising agencies, printing companies, or similar entities—through their manager/officer-in-charge/advertising manager—are penalized if they knowingly allow or consent to the prohibited acts.
If an association/club/partnership/corporation or other entity violates the Act, the incumbent officers who knowingly participated in the violation are held liable.
Imprisonment of not less than six years and one day but not more than eight years, and a fine of not less than ₱8,000 but not more than ₱20,000.
The foreign offender shall be immediately deported and barred forever from entering the country after serving the sentence and paying the fine.
The incumbent officers who have knowingly participated in the violation may be held liable, per Section 3.
No. Section 5 states that nothing in the Act shall be interpreted as restricting freedom of speech and association for purposes not contrary to law as guaranteed by the Constitution.
It prohibits advertising, publishing, printing, or distributing brochures, fliers, and other propaganda materials calculated to promote the prohibited matching acts.
That the person/entity established or carried on a business whose purpose is matching Filipino women for marriage to foreign nationals, either on a mail-order basis or through personal introduction.
It prohibits soliciting/enlisting/inducing Filipino women to become members in a club/association whose objective is matching Filipino women for marriage to foreign nationals, whether the offer is free or for a free (as stated in the text).
Under Section 2, the manager/officer-in-charge/advertising manager may be held liable because the Act makes knowingly allowing or consenting to the prohibited acts punishable.
All laws, decrees, orders, instructions, rules, and regulations, or parts thereof inconsistent with the Act are repealed or modified accordingly.
Upon its publication for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation.
To protect Filipino women from exploitation in disregard of human dignity, especially in their pursuit of economic upliftment, by criminalizing matchmaking practices and their promotional mechanisms.