QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 11573)
RA 11573 declares the policy of the State to simplify, update, and harmonize related land laws to remove ambiguity, while providing land tenure security by continuing judicial and administrative titling processes.
The maximum area is not more than twelve (12) hectares.
The applicant must have continuously occupied and cultivated the land for at least twenty (20) years prior to filing the application.
The applicant must have paid the real estate tax thereon.
Applications must be filed with the CENRO of DENR; if the province has no CENRO, with the PENRO.
CENRO/PENRO must process the application within one hundred and twenty (120) days from filing, including required notices and legal requirements.
If below 5 hectares: forwarded to the PENRO; if 5 up to 10 hectares: to the DENR Regional Director; if more than 10 up to 12 hectares: to the Secretary of DENR.
Within five (5) days.
Parties may seek proper administrative and judicial remedies.
RA 11573 repealed Section 47 of CA 141 (as amended by RA 7196).
The petition is filed in the Regional Trial Court of the province where the land is located.
Not exceeding twelve (12) hectares.
(a) Those with open, continuous, exclusive, and notorious possession of alienable and disposable agricultural lands under a bona fide claim of ownership for at least 20 years (unless prevented by war or force majeure); (b) those who acquired ownership of private lands or abandoned riverbeds by right of accession or accretion; and (c) those who acquired ownership of land in any other manner provided by law.
At least twenty (20) years immediately preceding the filing of the application (unless prevented by war or force majeure).
It provides that a duly signed certification by a duly designated DENR geodetic engineer that the land is part of alienable and disposable agricultural lands is sufficient proof, and the certification must be imprinted in the approved survey plan with required details and sworn statement.
It is sufficient that the Land Classification (LC) Map Number, Project Number, and date of release indicated in the land classification map be stated in the sworn statement, declaring that the land classification map exists in NAMRIA’s inventory and is being used by DENR.
They are penalized with a fine of not less than P100,000 but not more than P500,000 or imprisonment of not less than 6 months but not exceeding 6 years, or both, at the discretion of the court, for willingly or through gross inexcusable negligence preparing a projection map with false/fraudulent/incomplete data.
The Secretary of DENR must promulgate the IRR within sixty (60) days from effectivity. The Act takes effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or a newspaper of general circulation.