DAR Rules for Registration of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries

General: Develop a comprehensive data bank of potential and qualified beneficiaries for effective program implementation.
Specific:
1. Identify actual and potential farmer-beneficiaries.
2. Establish baseline data for validation against landowners' sworn statements (LISTASAKA).
3. Gather data to aid planning and program development for beneficiaries.

Applies to all agricultural lessees, share tenants, and farmworkers on public and private lands cultivating rice, corn, and other crops.
Beneficiary categories include:
1. Agricultural lessees and share tenants
2. Regular, seasonal, and other farmworkers
3. Actual tillers or occupants of public lands
4. Cooperatives or collectives of beneficiaries
5. Children of landowners qualified under Section 6 of R.A. 6657
Beneficiaries must show willingness, aptitude, and ability to cultivate and maximize land productivity.
Excludes beneficiaries under P.D. 27 who have sold or abandoned lands culpably and those who already own at least three hectares under P.D. 27.

Agricultural Lessee: Person who cultivates land owned or possessed by another for a price (money or produce).
Agricultural Share Tenant: Tenant who shares production output with landowner, contributing labor and possibly other inputs.
Immediate Farm Household: Family members or dependents who assist the lessee.
Agricultural Lands: Lands devoted to farming excluding mineral, forest, residential, commercial, or industrial lands.
Farmer: Natural person primarily engaged in cultivation, with or without land ownership.
Farmworker: Person employed or rendering services for value in agricultural activities.
Regular Farmworker: Permanently employed farmworker on an agricultural enterprise.
Seasonal Farmworker: Intermittently or periodically employed worker, including dumaan and sacada types.
Other Farmworker: Farmhands who do not fit into regular or seasonal categories, often unpaid.
Principal Crop: Predominantly planted or produced crop on a landholding.

Pre-Registration:
1. Organize BARCs in every barangay.
2. Conduct nationwide information campaigns with farmers' organizations and NGOs.
3. Hold orientation briefings/workshops for DAR fieldmen, BARC members, and farmer groups.
4. Establish registration centers supervised by DAR personnel and managed by BARC representatives or barangay council members.
Actual Registration:
1. Prospective beneficiaries obtain and complete registration forms at barangay centers.
2. Forms reviewed by DAR Agrarian Reform Technologists (ART) and BARC members.
3. Forms signed by registrants (signature or right thumbmark) and attested by BARC officials.
4. Registration is to be done at the barangay where beneficiaries usually work or reside.
5. Each beneficiary may register only once; registering multiple times is punishable.
6. Beneficiaries working on multiple farmholdings may register at any corresponding registration center.
Information required includes registrant's and household members' names, landowner information, land location and area, crop and production details, shares or wages, and other relevant data.
Registration deadline was December 31, 1989, with continuing registration of new registrants thereafter.
Post-Registration:
1. Lists posted publicly for 15 days for validation and objections.
2. BARC resolves objections and prepares certified masterlists submitted to the DAR Provincial Office.

Executive Committee: Headed by the Undersecretary for operations; responsible for policy formulation, organizing task forces, ensuring funding, generating forms, training personnel, and monitoring registration.
Regional Registration Committee (RRC): Led by the Assistant Regional Director; oversees administration, planning campaigns, supplying forms, and monitoring regional registration.
Provincial Registration Committee (PRC): Headed by the Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer; manages registration conduct, organizes provincial task forces, supplies forms, monitors progress, and oversees data processing.
Municipal Registration Committee (MRC): Led by the Municipal Agrarian Reform Officer; supervises municipality registration, coordinates with BARC, manages reports and records.
Barangay Registration Committee (BRC): Led by BARC Chairman; sets up registration centers, screens beneficiaries, oversees registration, verifies forms, prepares masterlists, submits reports, and maintains records.