Practice question
A registrar refuses to record recovery of citizenship because the person’s original birth certificate already exists. Which is correct?
- Birth registration excludes every later event
- Citizenship cannot change
- Only a private diary may record it
- Article 408 separately includes recovery of citizenship; the existing birth entry does not eliminate that category
- The registrar may destroy the birth record
Legal references
- Civil Code, Articles407-413 and415: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
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