The law was apparently objected to by the some Moro groups as an arbitrary and unilateral act of the Philippine government. One of the most controversial provisions of the law is the removal of the scope of ancestral domain of the Bangsamoro people and the jurisdiction of the ARMM government over strategic minerals, all sources of potential energy, lakes and other water forms, national reserves and marine parks found within the area of autonomy.
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It has been widely denounced as to have been passed without proper and sufficient consultations with the people of the ARMM and other stakeholders and that public hearings conducted for the same were hastily done.
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Present major laws governing public land disposition and land registration of Moro ancestral lands: • Act No. 2259 Cadastral Act which provides for the cadastral survey and institution of compulsory and mass judicial proceedings for the settlement and adjudication of claims to all kinds of land in a particular municipality, city or specific tract of land initiated by the Director of Lands upon order of the President whenever public interest requires it
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P.D. 1529 known as the Real Property Registration Decree. Commonwealth Act No. 141 as amended or the third Public Land Act. Although was in enacted 1936, it is still being implemented up to this time as amendments have been made therein from time RA 3872 or An Act to Amend Sections Forty-Four, FortyEight and One Hundred Twenty of Commonwealth Act Number One Hundred Forty One, as Amended, Otherwise known as the “Public Land Act”, and For Other Purposes RA 6371 or Indigenous People’s Rights Act (IPRA of 1997) Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1998 (RA No. 6657) RA 9054 or Strengthening and Expanding the Organic Act for the ARMM (2001)
Land Tenure Stories in Central Mindanao
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