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The State shall provide incentives to (c) Agricultural Land refers to land
landowners to invest the proceeds of the devoted to agricultural activity as defined
agrarian reform program to promote in this Act and not classified as mineral,
industrialization, employment and forest, residential, commercial or
privatization of public sector enterprises. industrial land.
Financial instruments used as payment
for lands shall contain features that shall (d) Agrarian Dispute refers to any
enhance negotiability and acceptability in controversy relating to tenurial
the marketplace. arrangements, whether leasehold,
tenancy, stewardship or otherwise, over
The State may lease undeveloped lands lands devoted to agriculture, including
of the public domain to qualified entities disputes concerning farm workers'
for the development of capital-intensive associations or representation of persons
farms, traditional and pioneering crops in negotiating, fixing, maintaining,
especially those for exports subject to changing or seeking to arrange terms or
the prior rights of the beneficiaries under conditions of such tenurial arrangements.
this Act.
It includes any controversy relating to
SECTION 3. Definitions. - For the compensation of lands acquired under
purpose of this Act, unless the context this Act and other terms and conditions
indicates otherwise: of transfer of ownership from landowners
to farm workers, tenants and other
(a) Agrarian Reform means the agrarian reform beneficiaries, whether
redistribution of lands, regardless of the disputants stand in the proximate
crops or fruits produced, to farmers and relation of farm operator and beneficiary,
regular farm workers who are landless, landowner and tenant, or lessor and
irrespective of tenurial arrangement, to lessee.
include the totality of factors and support
services designed to lift the economic (e) Idle or Abandoned Land refers to any
status of the beneficiaries and all other agricultural land not cultivated, tilled or
arrangements alternative to the physical developed to produce any crop nor
redistribution of lands, such as devoted to any specific economic
production or profit-sharing, labor purpose continuously for a period of
administration, and the distribution of three (3) years immediately prior to the
receipt of notice of acquisition by the (j) Other Farmworker is a farmworker
government as provided under this Act, who does not fall under paragraphs (g),
but does not include land that has (h) and (i).
become permanently or regularly
devoted to non-agricultural purposes. It (k) Cooperatives shall refer to
does not include land which has become organizations composed primarily of
unproductive by reason of force majeure small agricultural producers, farmers,
or any other fortuitous event: Provided, farm workers, or other agrarian reform
that prior to such event, such land was beneficiaries who voluntarily organize
previously used for agricultural or other themselves for the purpose of pooling
economic purposes. land, human, technological, financial or
other economic resources, and operated
(f) Farmer refers to a natural person on the principle of one member, one
whose primary livelihood is cultivation of vote. A juridical person may be a
land or the production of agricultural member of a cooperative, with the same
crops either by himself, or primarily with rights and duties as a natural person.
the assistance of his immediate farm
household, whether the land is owned by
him, or by another person under a CHAPTER II
leasehold or share tenancy agreement or COVERAGE
arrangement with the owner thereof.
SEC. 4. Scope. - The Comprehensive
(g) Farmworker is a natural person who Agrarian Reform Law of 1988 shall cover,
renders service for value as an employee regardless of tenurial arrangement and
or laborer in an agricultural enterprise or commodity produced, all public and
farm regardless of whether his private agricultural lands as provided in
compensation is paid on a daily, weekly, Proclamation No. 131 and Executive
monthly or "pakyaw" basis. The term Order No. 229, including other lands of
includes an individual whose work has the public domain suitable for
ceased as a consequence of, or in agriculture.
connection with, a pending agrarian
dispute who has not obtained a More specifically, the following lands are
substantially equivalent and regular farm covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian
employment. Reform Program:
(a) agricultural lessees and share Farmers already in place and those not
tenants; accommodated in the distribution of
(b) regular farm workers; privately-owned lands will be given
(c) seasonal farm workers; preferential rights in the distribution of
(d) other farm workers; lands from the public domain.
(e) actual tillers or occupants of public
lands; SEC. 23. Distribution Limit. - No qualified
(f) collective or cooperatives of the beneficiary may own more than three (3)
above beneficiaries; and hectares of agricultural land.
(g) others directly working on the
land. SEC. 24. Award to Beneficiaries. - The
rights and responsibilities of the
Provided, however, That the children of beneficiary shall commence from the
landowners who are qualified under time the DAR makes an award of the
Section 6 of this Act shall be given land to him, which award shall be
preference in the distribution of the land completed within one hundred eighty
of their parents; and: Provided, further, (180) days from the time the DAR takes
that actual tenant -tillers in the actual possession of the land. Ownership
landholding shall not be ejected or of the beneficiary shall be evidenced by a
removed therefrom. Certificate of Land Ownership Award,
which shall contain the restrictions and
Beneficiaries under Presidential Decree conditions provided for in this Act, and
No. 27 who have culpably sold, disposed shall be recorded in the Register of
of, or abandoned their land are Deeds concerned and annotated on the
disqualified to become beneficiaries Certificate of Title.
under their program.
SEC. 25. Award Ceilings for Beneficiaries.
A basic qualification of a beneficiary shall - Beneficiaries shall be awarded an area
be his willingness, aptitude and ability to not exceeding three (3) hectares, which
cultivate and make land as productive as may cover a contiguous tract of land or
possible. The DAR shall adopt a system several parcels of land cumulated up to
of monitoring the record or performance the prescribed award limits.
of each beneficiary, so that any
For purposes of this Act, a landless as provided herein has been foreclosed
beneficiary is one who owns less than shall thereafter be permanently
three (3) hectares of agricultural disqualified from becoming a beneficiary
land. The beneficiaries may opt for under this Act.
collective ownership, such as co-workers
or farmers' cooperative or some other SEC. 27. Transferability of Awarded
form of collective organization: Provided, Lands. - Lands acquired by beneficiaries
That the total area that may be awarded under this Act may not be sold,
shall not exceed the total number of co- transferred or conveyed except through
workers or members of the cooperative hereditary succession, or to the
or collective organization multiplied by government, or to the LBP, or to other
the award limit above prescribed, except qualified beneficiaries for a period of ten
in meritorious cases as determined by (10) years: Provided, however, That the
the PARC. Title to the property shall be children or the spouse of the transferor
issued in the name of the co-owners or shall have a right to repurchase the land
the cooperative or collective organization from the government or LBP within a
as the case may be. period of two (2) years. Due notice of the
availability of the land shall be given by
SEC. 26. Payment by Beneficiaries. - the LBP to the Barangay Agrarian Reform
Lands awarded pursuant to this Act shall Committee (BARC) of the barangay
be paid for by the beneficiaries to the where the land is situated. The Provincial
LBP in thirty (30) annual amortizations at Agrarian Coordinating Committee
six percent (6%) interest per annum. (PARCCOM), as herein provided, shall, in
The payments for the firs three (3) years turn, be given due notice thereof by the
after the award may be at reduced BARC.
amounts as established by the PARC : If the land has not yet been fully paid by
Provided, That the first five (5) annual the beneficiary, the right to the land may
payments may not be more than five be transferred or conveyed, with prior
percent (5%) of the value of the annual approval of the DAR, to any heir of the
gross production is paid as established beneficiary or to any other beneficiary
by the DAR. Should the scheduled annual who, as a condition for such transfer or
payments after the fifth year exceed ten conveyance, shall cultivate the land
percent (10) of the annual gross himself. Failing compliance herewith, the
production and the failure to produce land shall be transferred to the LBP
accordingly is not due to the beneficiary's which shall give due notice of the
fault, the LBP may reduce the interest availability of the land in the manner
rate or reduce the principal obligation to specified in the immediately preceding
make the payment affordable. paragraph.
In the event of such transfer to the LBP,
The LBP shall have a lien by way of the latter shall compensate the
mortgage on the land awarded to beneficiary in one lump sum for the
beneficiary and this mortgage may be amounts the latter has already paid,
foreclosed by the LBP for non-payment of together with the value of improvements
an aggregate of three (3) annual he has made on the land.
amortizations. The LBP shall advise the
DAR of such proceedings and the latter SEC. 28Standing Crops at the Time of
shall subsequently award the forfeited Acquisition. - The landowner shall retain
landholding to other qualified his share of any standing crops
beneficiaries. A beneficiary whose land unharvested at the time the DAR shall
take possession of the land under landholdings to the Republic of the
Section 16 of this Act, and shall be given Philippines pursuant to Section 20 hereof
a reasonable time to harvest the same. or to qualified beneficiaries, under such
terms and conditions consistent with this
Act, as they may agree upon, subject to
confirmation by the DAR.
CHAPTER VIII
CORPORATE FARMS Upon certification by the DAR,
corporations owning agricultural lands
SEC. 29. Farms Owned or Operated by may give their qualified beneficiaries the
Corporations or Other Business right to purchase such proportion of the
Associations. - In the case of farms capital stock of the corporation that the
owned or operated by corporations or agricultural land, actually devoted to
other business associations, the following agricultural activities, bears in relation to
rules shall be observed by the PARC. the company's total assets, under such
terms and conditions as may be agreed
In general, lands shall be distributed upon by them. In no case shall the
directly to the individual worker- compensation received by the workers at
beneficiaries. the time the shares of stocks are
distributed be reduced. The same
In case it is not economically feasible principle shall be applied to associations,
and sound to divide the land, then it with respect to their equity or
shall be owned collectively by the participation.
worker-beneficiaries who shall form a
workers' cooperative or association which Corporations or associations which
will deal with the corporation or business voluntarily divest a proportion of their
association. Until a new agreement is capital stock, equity or participation in
entered into by and between the favor of their workers or other qualified
workers' cooperative or association and beneficiaries under this section shall be
the corporation or business association, deemed to have complied with the
any agreement existing at the time this provisions of this Act: Provided, That the
Act takes effect between the former and following condition are complied with:
the previous landowner shall be
respected by both the workers' (a) In order to safeguard the right
cooperative or association and the of beneficiaries who own shares of
corporation or business association. stocks to dividends and other
financial benefits, the books of the
SEC. 30. Homelots and Farmlots for corporation or association shall be
Members of Cooperatives. - The subject to periodic audit by
individual members of the cooperatives certified public accountants chosen
or corporations mentioned in the by the beneficiaries;
preceding section shall be provided with (b) Irrespective of the value of
homelots and small farmlots for their their equity in the corporation or
family use, to be taken from the land association, the beneficiaries shall
owned by the cooperative or corporation. be assured of at least one (1)
representative in the board of
SEC. 31. Corporate Landowners. - directors, or in a management or
Corporate landowners may voluntarily executive committee, if one exists,
transfer ownership over their agricultural of the corporation or association;
(c) Any shares acquired by such above, a transitory period, the length of
workers and beneficiaries shall which shall be determined by the DAR,
have the same rights and features will be established.
as all other shares; and
(d) Any transfer of shares of stocks During this transitory period, at least one
by the original beneficiaries shall percent (1%) of the gross sales of the
be void ab initio unless said entity shall be distributed to the
transaction is in favor of a qualified managerial, supervisory and technical
and registered beneficiary within group in place at the time of the
the same corporation. effectivity of this Act, as compensation
If within two (2) years from the approval for such transitory managerial and
of this Act, the land or stock transfer technical function it will perform,
envisioned above is not made or realized pursuant to an agreement that the
or the plan for such stock distribution farmworker-beneficiaries and the
approved by the PARC within the same managerial, supervisory and technical
period, the agricultural land of the group may conclude, subject to the
corporate owners or corporation shall be approval of the DAR.
subject to the compulsory coverage of
this Act. SEC. 33. Payment of Shares of
Cooperative or Association. - Shares of a
SEC. 32. Production-Sharing. - Pending cooperative or association acquired by
final land transfer, individuals or entities farmers-beneficiaries or workers-
owning, or operating under lease or beneficiaries shall be fully paid for in an
management contract, agricultural lands amount corresponding to the valuation
are hereby mandated to execute a as determined in the immediately
production-sharing plan with their succeeding section. The landowner and
farmworkers or farmworkers' the LBP shall assist the farmer-
organization, if any, whereby three beneficiaries and worker-beneficiaries in
percent (3%) of the gross sales from the the payment for said shares by providing
production of such lands are distributed credit financing.
within sixty (60) days at the end of the
fiscal year as compensation to regular SEC. 34. Valuation of Lands. - A
and other farmworkers in such lands valuation scheme for the land shall be
over and above the compensation they formulated by the PARC, taking into
currently receive: Provided, That these account the factors enumerated in
individuals or entities realize gross sales Section 17, in addition to the need to
in excess of five million pesos per annum stimulate the growth of cooperatives and
unless the DAR, upon proper application, the objective of fostering responsible
determines a lower ceiling. participation of the workers-beneficiaries
in the creation of wealth.
In the event that the individual or entity
realizes a profit, an additional ten In the determination of a price that is
percent (10%) of the net profit after tax just not only to the individual but to
shall be distributed to said regular and society as will, the PARC shall consult
other farmworkers within ninety days at closely with the landowner and the
the end of the fiscal year. To forestall workers-beneficiaries.
any disruption in the normal operation of
lands to be turned over to the In case of disagreement, the price
farmworker-beneficiaries mentioned determined by the PARC, if accepted by
the workers-beneficiaries, shall be (4) Price support and guarantee
followed, without prejudice to the for all agricultural produce;
landowner's right to petition the Special
Agrarian Court to resolve the issue of (5) Extending to small
valuation. landowners, farmers and farmers'
organizations the necessary credit,
like concessional and collateral-free
loans, for agro-industrialization
CHAPTER IX based on social collaterals like the
SUPPORT SERVICES guarantees of farmers'
organizations;
SEC. 35. Creation of Support Services (6) Promoting, developing and
Office. - There is hereby created the extending financial assistance to
Office of Support Services under the DAR small and medium-scale industries
to be headed by an Undersecretary. in agrarian reform areas;
(7) Assigning sufficient numbers
The office shall provide general support of agricultural extension workers to
and coordinative services in the farmers' organization;
implementation of the program, (8) Undertake research,
particularly in carrying out the provisions development and dissemination of
of the following services to farmer information on agrarian reform,
beneficiaries and affected landowners: plants and crops best suited for
cultivation and marketing, and low
(1) Irrigation facilities, especially cost and ecologically sound farm
second crop or dry season inputs and technologies to
irrigation facilities; minimize reliance on expensive and
(2) Infrastructure development imported agricultural inputs;
and public works projects in areas (9) Development of cooperative
and settlement that come under management skills through
agrarian reform, and for this intensive training;
purpose, the preparation of the (9) Assistance in the identification
physical development plan of such of ready markets for agricultural
settlements providing suitable produce and training in the other
barangay sites, potable water and various aspects of marketing;
power resources, irrigation (10) Conduct and effective
systems, seeds and seedling information dissemination system
banks, post harvest facilities, and through the Department of
other facilities for a sound Agriculture to promote marketing
agricultural development plan. For and minimize spoilage of
the purpose of providing the agricultural produce and products;
aforecited infrastructure and (11) Create a credit guarantee
facilities, the DAR is authorized to fund for agricultural landowners
enter into contracts with interested that will enhance the collateral
private parties on long term basis value of agricultural lands that are
or through joint venture affected or will be affected by
agreements or build-operate- coverage under the agrarian
transfer scheme: reform program; and
(3) Government subsidies for the (12) Administration, operation,
use of irrigation facilities management and funding of
support services programs and (a) Land surveys and titling;
projects including pilot projects and (b) Liberalized terms of credit facilities
models related to agrarian reform and production loans;
as developed by the DAR. (As (c) Extension services by way of
amended by R. A. 7905) planting, cropping, production and post-
SEC. 36. Funding for Support Services. - harvest technology transfer as well as
In order to cover the expenses and cost marketing and management
of support, at least twenty-five percent assistance and support to cooperatives
(25%) of all appropriations for agrarian and farmer organization;
reform shall immediately be set aside (d) Infrastructure such as access
and made available for this purpose: trails, mini-dams, public utilities,
Provided, That for the next five (5) marketing and storage facilities; and
years, a minimum of one (1) Agrarian (e) Research, production and use of
Reform Community (ARC) shall be organic fertilizers and other local
established by the DAR, in coordination substances necessary to farming and
with the local government units, non- cultivation.
governmental organizations and people's
organizations in each legislative district The PARC shall formulate policies to
with a predominant agricultural ensure that support services to farmer-
population: Provided, further, That the beneficiaries shall be provided at all
areas in which the ARCs are to be stages of land reform.
established shall have been fully
subjected under this law. The Bagong Kilusang Kabuhayan sa
Kaunlaran (BKKK) Secretariat shall be
For this purpose, an Agrarian Reform transferred and attached to the LBP, for
Community shall be defined as a its supervision, including all its applicable
barangay or a cluster of barangays and existing funds, personnel,
primarily composed and managed by properties, equipment and records.
Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries who shall
be willing to be organized and undertake Misuse or diversion of the financial and
the integrated development of an area support services herein provided shall
and/or their organizations/cooperatives. result in sanction against the beneficiary
In each community, the DAR, together guilty thereof, including the forfeiture of
with the agencies and organizations the land transferred to him or lesser
above mentioned, shall identify the sanctions as may be provided by the
farmers' association, cooperative or their PARC, without prejudice to criminal
respective federations approved by the prosecution.
farmers-beneficiaries that shall take the
lead in the agricultural development of SEC. 38. Support Services to
the area. In addition, the DAR shall be Landowners. - The PARC, with the
authorized to package proposals and assistance of such other government
receive grants, aids and other forms of agencies and instrumentalities as it may
financial assistance from any source. (As direct, shall provide landowners affected
amended by R. A. 7905) by the CARP and proper agrarian reform
programs with the following services:
SEC. 37. Support Services to the
Beneficiaries. - The PARC shall ensure (a) Investment information, financial
that support services to farmer- and counseling assistance;
beneficiaries are provided, such as:
(b) Facilities, programs and schemes
for the conversion or exchange of bonds CHAPTER X
issued for payment of the lands acquired SPECIAL AREAS OF CONCERN
with stocks and bonds issued by the
National Government, the central bank SEC. 40. Special Areas of Concern. - As
and other government institutions and an integral part of the Comprehensive
instrumentalities; Agrarian Reform Program, the following
principles in these special areas of
(c) Marketing of LBP bonds, as well as concern shall be observed:
promoting the marketability of said
bonds in traditional and non-traditional (1) Subsistence Fishing. - Small
financial markets and stock exchanges; fisher folk, including seaweed
farmers, shall be assured of
(d) Other services designed to utilize greater access to the utilization of
productively the proceeds of the sale of water resources;
such lands for rural industrialization. (2) Logging and Mining
concessions. - Subject to the
A landowner who invests in rural-based requirement of a balanced ecology
industries shall be entitled to the and conservation of water
incentives granted to a registered resources, suitable areas, as
enterprise engaged in a pioneer or determined by the Department of
preferred area of investment as provided Environment and Natural
for in the Omnibus Investment Code of Resources (DENR), in logging,
1987, or to such other incentives as the mining and pasture areas, must be
PARC, the LBP, or other government opened up for agrarian settlements
financial institutions may provide. whose beneficiaries will be required
to undertake reforestation and
The LBP shall redeem a landowner's LBP conservation of products methods.
bonds at face value: Provided, that the Subject to existing laws, rules and
proceeds thereof shall be invested in a regulation, settlers and members
BOI- registered company or in any agri- of tribal communities must be
business or agro-industrial enterprise in allowed to enjoy and exploit the
the region where the landowner has products of the forests other than
previously made investments, to the timber within the logging
extent of thirty percent (30%) of the concessions.
face value of said LBP bonds, subject to (3) Sparsely Occupied Public
guidelines that shall be issued by the Agricultural lands. - Sparsely
LBP. occupied agricultural lands of the
public domain will be surveyed,
SEC. 39. Land Consolidation. - the DAR proclaimed and developed as farm
shall carry out land consolidation projects settlements for qualified landless
to promote equal distribution of people based on an organized
landholdings, to provide the needed program to ensure their orderly
infrastructure in agriculture, and to and early development
conserve soil fertility and prevent Agricultural land allocations will be
erosion. made for ideal family-sized farms
as determined by the PARC.
Pioneers and other settlers will be
treated equally in every respect.
Subject to the prior rights of (7) Agriculture Graduates. -
qualified beneficiaries, uncultivated Graduates of agricultural schools
lands of the public domain shall be who are landless shall be assisted
made available on a lease basis to by the government, through the
interested and qualified parties. DAR, in their desire to own and till
Parties who will engage in the agricultural lands.
development of capital-intensive,
traditional or pioneering crops will
be given priority.
The lease period, which shall not
be more than a total of fifty (50) CHAPTER XI
years, shall be proportionate to the PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
amount of investment and
production goals of the lessee. A SEC. 41. The Presidential Agrarian
system of evaluation and audit will Reform Council. - The Presidential
be instituted. Agrarian Reform Council (PARC) shall be
(4) Idle, abandoned, foreclosed composed of the President of the
and sequestered lands. - Idle, Philippines as Chairman, the Secretary of
abandoned, foreclosed and Agrarian Reform as Vice-Chairman and
sequestered lands shall be planned the following as members: Secretaries of
for distribution as homelots and the Departments of Agriculture;
family-sized farm lots to actual Environment and Natural Resources;
occupants. If land area permits, Budget and Management ; Local
other landless families will be Government; Public Works and
accommodated in these lands. Highways; Trade and Industry; Finance;
(5) Rural Women. - All qualified Labor and Employment; Director-General
women members of the of the National Economic and
agricultural labor force must be Development Authority; President, Land
guaranteed and assured equal Bank of the Philippines; Administrator,
rights to ownership of the land, National Irrigation Administration; and
equal shares of the farm's produce, three (3) representatives of affected
and representation in advisory or landowners to represent Luzon, Visayas
appropriate decision-making and Mindanao: Provided, that one of
bodies. them shall be from the cultural
(6) Veterans and Retirees. - In communities.
accordance with Section 7 of Article
XVI of the Constitution, landless SEC. 42. Executive Committee. - There
war veterans and veterans of shall be an Executive Committee
military campaigns, their surviving (EXCOM) of the PARC composed of the
spouse and orphans, retirees of the Secretary of the DAR as Chairman, and
Armed Forces of the Philippines such other members as the president
(AFP) and the Integrated National may designate, taking into account
Police (INP), returnees, Article XIII, Section 5 of the Constitution.
surrenderees, and similar Unless otherwise directed by the PARC,
beneficiaries shall be given due the EXCOM may meet and decide on any
consideration in the disposition of and all matters in between meetings of
agricultural lands of the public the PARC: Provided, however, That its
domain. decisions must be reported to the PARC
immediately and not later than the next cultural communities, the latter shall
meeting. likewise have one (1) representative.
SEC. 47. Functions of the BARC. - In SEC. 49. Rules and Regulations. - The
addition to those provided in Executive PARC and the DAR shall have the power
Order No. 229, the BARC shall have the to issue rules and regulations, whether
following function: substantive or procedural, to carry out
the objects and purposes of this Act.
(a) Mediate and conciliate between Said rules shall take effect ten (10) days
parties involved in an agrarian after publication in two (2) national
dispute including matters related to newspapers of general circulation.
tenurial and financial
arrangements;
(b) Assist in the identification of
qualified beneficiaries and CHAPTER XII
landowners within the barangay; ADMINISTRATIVE ADJUDICATION
SEC. 50. Quasi-Judicial Powers of the themselves to represent such party or
DAR. - The DAR is hereby vested with group before any DAR proceedings.
primary jurisdiction to determine and
adjudicate agrarian reform matters and Notwithstanding an appeal to the Court
shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of Appeals, the decision of the DAR shall
over all matters involving the be immediately executory.
implementation of agrarian reform,
except those falling under the exclusive SEC. 51. Finality of Determination. - Any
jurisdiction of the Department of case or controversy before it shall be
Agricultural (DA) and the Department of decided within thirty (30) days after it is
Environment and Natural Resources submitted for resolution. Only one (1)
(DENR). motion for consideration shall be
allowed. Any order, ruling or decision
It shall not be bound by technical rules of shall be final after the lapse of fifteen
procedure and evidence but shall (15) days from receipt of a copy thereof.
proceed to hear and decide all cases,
disputes or controversies in a most SEC. 52. Frivolous Appeals. - To
expeditious manner, employing all discourage frivolous or dilatory appeals
reasonable means to ascertain the facts from the decisions or orders on the local
of every case in accordance with equity or provincial levels, the DAR may impose
and the merits of the case. Toward this reasonable penalties, including but not
end, it shall adopt a uniform rule of limited to, fines or censures upon erring
procedure to achieve a just, expeditious parties.
and inexpensive determination of every
action or proceeding before it. SEC. 53. Certification of BARC. - The
DAR shall not take cognizance of any
It shall have the power to summon agrarian dispute or controversy unless a
witnesses, administer oaths, take certification from the BARC that the
testimony, require submission of reports, dispute has been submitted to it for
compel the production of books and mediation and conciliation without any
documents and answers to success of settlement is
interrogatories and issue subpoena, and presented: Provided, however, that if no
subpoena duces tecum and to enforce its certification is issued by the BARC within
writs through sheriffs or other duly thirty (30) days after a matter or issue is
deputized officers. It shall likewise have submitted to it for mediation or
the power to punish direct and indirect conciliation, the case or dispute may be
contempt in the same manner and brought before the PARC.
subject to the same penalties as
provided in the Rules of Court
SEC. 61. Procedure on Review. - Review (b) All receipts from assets recovered
by the Court of Appeals or the Supreme and from sale of ill-gotten wealth
Court, as the case may be, shall be recovered through the Presidential
governed by the Rules of Court. The Commission on Good Government;
Court of Appeals, however, may require
the parties to file simultaneous (c) Proceeds of the disposition of the
memoranda within a period of fifteen properties of the Government in foreign
(15) days from notice, after which the countries;
case is deemed submitted for decision.
(d) Portion of amounts accruing to the
SEC. 62. Preferential Attention in Courts. Philippines from all sources or official
- All courts in the Philippines, both trial foreign aid grants and concessional
and appellate, are hereby enjoined to financing from all countries, to be used
give preferential attention to all cases for the specific purposes of financing
arising from or in connection with the production credits, infrastructures, and
implementation of the provisions of this other support services required by this
Act. Act;
All cases pending in court arising from or (e) Other government funds not
in connection with the implementation of otherwise appropriated.
this Act shall continue to be heard, tried
and decided into their finality, All funds appropriated to implement the
notwithstanding the expiration of the provisions of this Act shall be considered
ten-year period mentioned in Section 5 continuing appropriations during the
hereof. period of its implementation.