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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Section four hundred and four of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, commonly known as the Revised Administrative Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 404. Certificate of candidacy.—No person shall be eligible for the office of Senator, Representative, or for any elective provincial or municipal office unless, within the time fixed by law, he shall file a duly sworn certificate of candidacy.

"Said certificate shall declare that the person whose signature it bears announces, or permits to be announced, his candidacy for the position in question; that he is a resident of the electoral district or of the province or municipality, as the case may be, in which his candidacy is offered; that he is a duly qualified elector therein, and that he is eligible to the office. The certificate shall also state the name of the political party to which the candidate belongs, or that he belongs to none, if such be the case, and the post-office address of such candidate for all electoral purposes. Each candidate for an insular or provincial office or for municipal president shall sign a sworn statement in which he shall state that his expense budget for the electoral campaign will not exceed one-third of the total emoluments attached to the office for the term of the same. This statement shall be filed together with the certificate of candidacy: Provided, That a group of not less than ten electors may likewise file the certificate of candidacy of any eligible person who does not object to his candidacy, for any municipal office except that of municipal president, without the necessity of such certificate being made under oath: Provided, further, That in case there are two or more candidates for the same elective office who have the same name and surname, any one of them who has at any time been elected to any elective insular, provincial, or municipal office may continue using the name and surname, as well as nicknames, as set forth in his previous certificate of candidacy, while the others shall be obliged to state in their certificates of candidacy only their name and surname and second name or maternal family name, said certificate of candidacy shall not include nor contain nicknames of the other candidate who has at any time been elected to any insular, provincial, or municipal office; and in case these candidates present themselves for the first time for the same elective office, they shall all be obliged to state in the certificate of candidacy, in addition to their name and surname, the second name or maternal family name."

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

Approved, November 22, 1934.