Claims on Public Land - Filing Extension

Act No. 3672 authorizes delayed filing of claims of title to certain parcels that are or will be declared public land due to failure to timely file during the applicable legal filing period.

Section 1 grants a right to petition to all persons claiming title to parcels of land that have been the object of cadastral proceedings.
Section 1 covers claimants who were unable to file their claim in the proper court within the time limit established by law.
Section 1 limits coverage to cases where, due to failure to file such claim, the parcels have been, or are about to be, declared land of the public domain by virtue of judicial proceedings instituted within the ten years next preceding the approval of this Act.
Section 1 restricts the grant to parcels that have not been alienated, reserved, leased, granted, or otherwise provisionally or permanently disposed of by the Government.

Section 1 permits reopening only with respect to parcels that have not been alienated, reserved, leased, granted, or otherwise provisionally or permanently disposed of by the Government.
Section 1 requires the petitioner’s right to depend on the parcel’s status as of the filing within the covered one-year period.

Section 1 requires petitions to be filed within one year after the date when this Act shall take effect.
Section 1 establishes that reopening is available only within that one-year period following effectivity.

Section 1 provides that the petition is filed for reopening of the judicial proceedings under the provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-two hundred and fifty-nine, as amended.
Section 1 requires that the reopening be ordered only after the competent court receives and processes the petition in accordance with the Act’s conditions.
Section 1 directs the competent Court of First Instance to conduct action after receiving the petition, including providing for notice to the Government and hearing the parties.

Section 1 requires the Court of First Instance, upon receiving the petition, to notify the Government through the Attorney-General.
Section 1 requires the Court of First Instance to hear the parties after notice.

Section 1 provides that the court shall order the judicial proceedings reopened only if, after hearing, the court finds that all conditions herein established have been complied with.
Section 1 states that, when reopening is ordered, the judicial proceedings are reopened “as if no action has been taken on such parcels.”

Section 1 ties the covered parcels to judicial proceedings instituted within the ten years next preceding the approval of this Act.
Section 1 requires that the parcels have been declared or be about to be declared land of the public domain by virtue of those prior judicial proceedings.

Act No. 3672 provides for petition-based reopening and court orders based on compliance with conditions, without establishing a penalty scheme for petitioners or other parties.

Act No. 3672 establishes effectivity through the specific proclamation-and-approval mechanism in Section 2 and contains no express separability, sunset, or repealing clause in its operative provisions.