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. The Administrative Code is hereby amended by striking from the list of Acts thereby repealed in their entirety, Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-seven.

SEC. 2. Sections three and four of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-seven are hereby declared again in force.

SEC. 3. Whoever in a solemn affirmation made in any of the cases covered by section three of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-seven makes a false statement shall incur the penalties prescribed by said section three.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 17, 1917.