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    This document is a Republic Act from the Philippines that extends the period for filing applications for free patents and judicial confirmation of imperfect land titles in the public domain to December 31, 2020. It amends Sections 45 and 47 of Commonwealth Act No. 141. The amendments extend the deadline for filing such applications to perfect title to parcels of land up to 12 hectares in size from the public domain. It also provides that pending applications filed before this amendment will be treated as having complied with the amended law.

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    This document is a Republic Act from the Philippines that extends the period for filing applications for free patents and judicial confirmation of imperfect land titles in the public domain to December 31, 2020. It amends Sections 45 and 47 of Commonwealth Act No. 141. The amendments extend the deadline for filing such applications to perfect title to parcels of land up to 12 hectares in size from the public domain. It also provides that pending applications filed before this amendment will be treated as having complied with the amended law.

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    Republic of the Philippines

    Congress of the Philippines


    Metro Manila
    Twelfth Congress
    Second Regular Session
    Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-second day of July, two thousand two.
    Republic Act No. 9176

    November 13, 2002

    AN ACT EXTENDING THE PERIOD UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2020 FOR THE FILING OF
    APPLICATIONS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE LEGALIZATION (FREE PATENT) AND JUDICIAL
    CONFIRMATION OF IMPERFECT AND INCOMPLETE TITLES TO ALIENABLE AND
    DISPOSABLE LANDS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, AMENDING
    Be it enacted by the Senate and Hose of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress
    assembled:
    Section 1. Section 45, Chapter VII of Commonwealth Act No. 141, as amended, is hereby further
    amended to read as follows:
    "Section 45. The President of the Philippines, upon recommendation of the Secretary of
    Environment and Natural Resources, shall from time to time fix by proclamation the period within
    which applications for free patents may be filed in the Community Environment and Natural
    Resources Office or region specified in such proclamation, and upon the expiration of the period
    so designated, unless the same be extended by the President, all the lands comprised within
    such district, chartered city, province, municipality or region subject thereto under the provisions
    of this chapter may be disposed of as agricultural public land without prejudice to the prior right of
    the occupant and cultivator to acquire such land under this Act by means other than free patent.
    The time to be fixed in the entire Archipelago for the filing of applications under this Chapter shall
    not extend beyond 31 December 2020: Provided, that the period shall apply only when the area
    applied for does not exceed twelve (12) hectares. The period fixed for any district, chartered city,
    province or municipality shall take effect thirty (30) days after the publication of the proclamation
    in one (1) newspaper of general circulation in the city, province or municipality concerned. A
    certified copy of said proclamation shall be furnished by the Secretary of Environment and
    Natural Resources within thirty (30) days counted from the date of the presidential proclamation
    to the Community Environment and natural Resources office and to the provincial board and
    municipal board or city council and barangay council affected, and copies thereof shall be posted
    on the bulletin board of the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office and at such
    conspicuous places in the provincial capitol. It shall moreover be announced and aired over the
    government station in the concerned local area."
    Section 2. Section 47, Chapter VIII of the same ACT, as amended, is hereby further amended to
    read as follows:
    "Section 47. The persons specified in the next following section are hereby granted time, not to
    extend beyond December 31, 2020 within which to avail of the benefits of this Chapter: Provided,
    That this period shall apply only where the area applied for does not exceed twelve (12) hectares:
    Provided, further, That the several periods of time designated by the President in accordance with
    Section Forty-Five of this Act shall apply also to the lands comprised in the provisions of this
    Chapter, but this Section shall not be construed as prohibiting any said persons from acting under
    this Chapter at any time prior to the period fixed by the President.
    Section 3. All pending applications filed before the effectivity of this amendatory Act shall be
    treated as having been filed in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

    Section 4. Repealing Clause - All laws, decrees, executive orders, executive issuance or letters of
    instruction, rules and regulations, or any part thereof, inconsistent with or contrary to the
    provisions of this Act, are hereby deemed repealed, amended or modified accordingly.
    Section 5. Separably Clause - If, for any reason or reasons, any part or parts of this Act shall be
    declared unconstitutional or invalid by any competent court, other parts or provisions thereof not
    affected thereby shall continue to be in full force and effect.
    Section 6. Effectivity Clause - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in
    two(2) national newspaper of general circulation.
    Approved,
    FRANKLIN DRILON
    President of the Senate
    JOSE DE VENECIA JR.
    Speaker of the House of Representatives
    This Act, which is a consolidation of House Bill No. 4628 and Senate Bill No. 1695 was finally
    passed by the House of Representative and the Senate on September 2, 2002 and September 3,
    2002 respectively.
    OSCAR G. YABES
    Secretary of Senate
    ROBERTO P. NAZARENO
    Secretary General
    House of Represenatives
    Approved: November 13, 2002
    GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO
    President of the Philippines

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