Certificate of candidacy.
Section 15
SEC. 15. Certificate of candidacy.—No person shall be eligible for election as Member of the Batasang Pambansa unless he files a sworn certificate of candidacy not later than March 27, 1984. No fee shall be collected for the filing thereof. No person shall be eligible to be a candidate in more than one constituency and if he files certificates of candidacy for more than one constituency, he shall not be eligible for any of them. However, before midnight of March 27, 1984, the person who has filed more than one certificate of candidacy may declare under oath the constituency for which he desires to be a candidate and such declaration shall ipso facto cancel the certificate of candidacy for the other constituency or constituencies. The filing of a certificate of candidacy shall not affect whatever civil, criminal or administrative liabilities a candidate may have incurred: Provided, however, That hearings of the case involving the same shall be suspended during the election period, unless such hearings are sought by the candidate himself.