Practice question
Which description best fits a clerical or typographical error under the amended law?
- Every controversial change requested by an applicant.
- Any change that produces a financial benefit.
- A harmless clerical mistake obvious from the records and correctable by reference to existing records, within statutory limits.
- Every alteration of nationality.
- Every change of civil status.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2001/ra_9048_2001.html — RA 9048 sections 3–7: filing, first-name grounds, administrative processing and recourse.
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2012/ra_10172_2012.html — RA 10172 sections 1–4: amended authority, clerical-error definition, documents and publication.
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