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Lecture Land Admnstration Services Edited2
Lecture Land Admnstration Services Edited2
DA
R
Agencies Dealing with Lands
NC
IP
• National Commission on Indigenous Peoples
-Lands occupied, possessed and utilized
by individuals, families, and clans who are members
of the Indigenous Cultural
Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs)
Agencies Dealing with Lands
• Land Registration Authority
=Registration of titles issued
by DAR/DENR/NCIP
=Approval of plans covering
LR titled properties
LR
A
Court of Justice
Agencies Dealing with Lands
• Public Alienable and Disposable (A&D)
lands
• Free patent – agricultural lands
• Residential Free patent – residential lands
• Sales patent for Agricultural/Commercial/
Industrial
• Foreshore/Miscellaneous lease –
foreshore/offshore area
• Special patent
- School sites
- Public areas
• Patrimonial properties
DEN • IGPSA – Insular Government Property Sales
Application
R • Friar lands
• Friar lands application -
Agencies Dealing with Lands
DEN
R
MANDATE
The Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) through the Land Management
Bureau (LMB) and field offices is mandated to
administer, survey, manage and dispose :
Agricultu Fore
ral st
47% 50%
Unclassifi
ed 3%
Total Land Area = 29.7 M. Has. Total Population = 100+ million Total
Estimated Land Parcels =22 million
PRIVATE RIGHTS
TO LAND
During Pre-Hispanic Filipinos
( before Spanish Era)
Torrens System
- system of land registration
in which a certificate of title
is issued by the government
as an evidence of
ownership.
Creation of the Bureau of Public Lands and the 1st
Public Land Act
Bureau of Public
*mandate*
supervising the survey and distribution of public lands in the
Philippine Islands.
Consisted of the following original force:
• director,
• chief clerk
• a translator
• 2 clerks
• 1 messenger
Act 926 (Public Land Act of 1903) - basis of
public land disposition.
Dispositions of public land under this act were:
1. homestead patent
2. free patent
3. Sales patent
4. lease of public lands suitable for agriculture