COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM LAW

OF 1988 .REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6657

Prepared by: Balois, Harry Kim B.

Declaration of Principles and Policies

It is the policy of the State to pursue a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The welfare of the landless farmers and farm workers will receive the highest consideration to promote social justice and to move the nation towards sound rural development and industrialization, and the establishment of owner cultivator ship of economic-sized farms as the basis of Philippine agriculture.

Scope The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform

Law of 1988 shall cover, regardless of tenurial arrangement and commodity produced, all public and private agricultural lands as provided in Proclamation No. 131 and Executive Order No. 229, including other lands of the public domain suitable for agriculture.

Schedule of Implementation

The distribution of all lands covered by this Act shall be implemented immediately and completed within ten (10) years from the affectivity thereof.

Retention Limits

Upon the effectivity of this Act, any sale, disposition, lease, management contract or transfer of possession of private lands executed by the original landowner in violation of this Act shall be null and void

IMPROVEMENT OF TENURIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS

SEC. 12. Determination of Lease RentalsDistribution of lands in public domain

SEC. 12-A. Incentives SEC. 13. Production-Sharing Plan

REGISTRATIONS Registration of Landowners

- Within one hundred eighty (180) days from the effectivity of this Act

Registration of Beneficiaries The DAR in coordination with the Barangay Agrarian Reform

Committee (BARC) as organized in this Act

Determination of Just Compensation

Valuation and Mode of Compensation

Incentives for Voluntary Offers for Sale

Voluntary Land Transfer Payment of Compensation

by Beneficiaries Under Voluntary Land Transfer

Subsistence Fishing Logging and Mining

concessions Sparsely Occupied Public

Agricultural lands Idle, abandoned,

foreclosed and sequestered lands

Rural Women Veterans and Retirees Agriculture Graduates

COMPENSATION

SPECIAL AREAS OF CONCERN

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

The Presidential Agrarian Reform Council

Executive CommitteeSecretariatProvincial Agrarian Reform

Coordinating Committee (PARCCOM)Barangay Agrarian Reform

Committee (BARC)

GENERAL PROVISIONSConversion of LandsConversion into Fishpond and Prawn FarmsProtection of Mangrove AreasExemptions from Taxes and Fees of Land TransfersFree Registration of Patents and TitlesImmunity of Government Agencies from Undue

InterferenceAssistance of Other Government EntitiesDisposition of Private Agricultural LandsBank MortgagesLeases, Management, Grower or Services Contracts,

Mortgages and Other Claims

Approved: June 10, 1988

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