Ban on Matching Filipino Women to Foreigners

Section 2 makes it unlawful for any person, natural or juridical, association, club, or any other entity to commit, directly or indirectly, the prohibited acts.
Section 2 prohibits establishing or carrying on a business for the matching of Filipino women for marriage to foreign nationals either:
- on a mail-order basis, or
- through personal introduction.
Section 2 prohibits advertising, publishing, printing, or distributing (or causing such acts) any brochure, flier, or propaganda material calculated to promote the prohibited matching business.
Section 2 prohibits soliciting, enlisting, or in any manner attracting or inducing any Filipino woman to become a member in any club or association whose objective is matching women for marriage to foreign nationals either on a mail-order basis or through personal introduction for a free.
Section 2 prohibits using the postal service to promote the prohibited acts involving matching Filipino women for marriage to foreign nationals.
Section 2 also imposes liability on the manager or officer-in-charge or advertising manager of any newspaper, magazine, television or radio station, or other media, or of an advertising agency, printing company or other similar entities, when such manager knowingly allows or consents to the prohibited acts.

Section 3 provides that when an association, club, partnership, corporation, or any other entity violates the Act, the incumbent officers who have knowingly participated in the violation are held liable.

Section 4 requires courts to impose, for any person found guilty of violating any prohibited act, imprisonment of not less than six years and one day but not more than eight years.
Section 4 requires a fine of not less than PHP 8,000 but not more than PHP 20,000 for any person found guilty.
Section 4 mandates that if the offender is a foreigner, the offender shall be immediately deported and barred forever from entering the country after serving the sentence and paying the fine.

Section 5 provides that nothing in the Act restricts freedom of speech and of association for purposes not contrary to law as guaranteed by the Constitution.

Section 6 repeals or modifies laws, decrees, orders, instructions, rules, and regulations (or parts thereof) that are inconsistent with the Act.
Section 7 sets effectivity upon publication for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation.

Republic Act No. 6955 is approved on June 13, 1990.
Republic Act No. 6955 is titled: “AN ACT DECLARE UNLAWFUL THE PRACTICE OF MATCHING FILIPINO WOMEN FOR MARIAGE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS ON A MAIL-ORDER BASIS AND OTHER SIMILAR PRACTICES, INCLUDING THE ADVERTISEMENT, PUBLICATION, PRINTING OR DISTRIBUTION OF BROCHURES, FLIERS AND OTHER PROPAGANDA MATERIALS IN FURTHERANCE THEREOF AND PROVIDING PENALTY THEREFOR.”
Republic Act No. 6955 originated in the Senate and was finally passed by the Senate on June 5, 1989 and by the House of Representatives on May 15, 1990.