Special Disqualifications.
Section 4
SEC. 4. Special Disqualifications.—In addition to violations of Section 10 of Article XII (C) of the Constitution and disqualifications mentioned in existing laws, which are hereby declared as disqualifications for any of the elective officials enumerated in Section 1 hereof, any retired elective provincial, city or municipal official, who has received payment of the retirement benefits to which he is entitled under the law and who shall have been 65 years of age at the commencement of the term of office to which he seeks to be elected, shall not be qualified to run for the same elective local office from which he has retired. Any person who has committed any act of disloyalty to the State, including acts amounting to subversion, insurrection, rebellion or other similar crimes, shall not be qualified to be a candidate for any of the offices covered by this Act, or to participate in any partisan political activity therein: Provided, That a judgment of conviction for any of the aforementioned crimes shall be conclusive evidence of such fact and the filing of charges for the commission of such crimes before a civil court or military tribunal after preliminary investigation shall be prima facie evidence of such fact. Any person who is a permanent resident of, or an immigrant to a foreign country, shall not be qualified to run for any elective office under this Act. Any person who offers a false testimony against a candidate by reason whereof charges are filed against him for any of the offenses above-enumerated shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to suffer the penalty one degree higher than that provided for in the Revised Penal Code and without prejudice to actual, moral and exemplary damages.