Proclamation No. 52




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 52, July 20, 1966 ] MAKING PUBLIC THE CONVENTION ON CONSENT TO MARRIAGE, MINIMUM AGE FOR MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES, SIGNED AT NEW YORK ON DECEMBER 10, 1962. WHEREAS, the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages was concluded at New York on December 10, 1962 and signed by the Philippines on February 5, 1963; WHEREAS, the Senate of the Philippines, by its Resolution No. 44 adopted on May 21, 1964, concurred in the ratification of said Convention in accordance with the Constitution; WHEREAS, the Instrument of Ratification of said Convention was deposited by the Philippines with the Secretary-General of the United Nations on January 21, 1965, with the following declaration: “The Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages was adopted for the purpose, among other things, of insuring to all persons complete freedom in the choice of a spouse. The first paragraph of Article 1 of the Convention requires that the full and free consent of both parties shall be expressed in the presence of the competent authority and of witnesses. “Considering the provisions of its Civil Code, the Philippines, in ratifying this Convention interprets the second paragraph of Article 1 (which authorizes, in exceptional cases, the solemnization of marriage by proxy) as not imposing upon the Philippines the obligation to allow within its territory the celebration of proxy marriages or marriages of the kind contemplated in that paragraph, where such manner of marriage is not authorized by the laws of the Philippines. Rather, the solemnization within Philippine territory of a marriage in the absence of one of the parties under the conditions stated in said paragraph will be permitted only if so allowed by Philippine law;” and WHEREAS, Article 6 of the Convention stipulates that it shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the deposit of the Instrument of Ratification, and accordingly, said Convention takes effect on April 21, 1965; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, have caused the said Convention, a certified copy of which in the English text is hereto attached, to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled in good faith by the Republic of the Philippines and the citizens thereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1 Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-six. (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation