Manner of Electing Philippine Citizenship

The option to elect Philippine citizenship must be expressed in a statement that the party concerned must sign and swear to before any officer authorized to administer oaths.
The signed and sworn statement must be filed with the nearest civil registry.
The party concerned must accompany the statement with an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the Government of the Philippines.
The officer before whom the statement is sworn must be authorized to administer oaths.

If the party concerned is absent from the Philippines, the party may make the authorized statement before any officer of the Government of the United States authorized to administer oaths.
When the statement is made before a United States officer due to absence from the Philippines, the party must forward the statement, together with the oath of allegiance, to the Civil Registry of Manila.

Section 3 requires the civil registrar to collect ten pesos as filing fees for the statement.

Section 4 imposes a penalty on anyone found guilty of fraud or falsehood in making the statement prescribed by the Act.
The penalty under Section 4 is prisión correccional, or a fine not exceeding ten thousand pesos, or both.
Liability attaches specifically to fraud or falsehood in the making of the required citizenship option statement.