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Except as otherwise provided in RA 6657, no person may own or retain,

directly or indirectly, any public or private agricultural land, the size of which
may vary according to the factors governing a viable family-size farm such
as commodity produced, terrain, infrastructure and soil fertility as
determined by PARC. In no case shall retention of a landowner exceed five
hectares.
LGUs acquiring private agricultural land by expropriation and other modes of
acquisition to be used for actual, direct and exclusive public purpose
consistent with the shall not be subject to the 5-hectare retention limit.
Provided it undergo:
1. Land acquisition and distribution process of the program
2. The ARBenficiaries shall be paid just compensation
Agrarian Reform means redistribution of lands, regardless of crops or fruits produced, to
farmers and regular farmworkers who are landless, irrespective of tenurial
arrangement, to include the totality of factors and support services designed to lift the
economic status of the beneficiaries and all other arrangements alternative to the
physical redistribution of lands, such as production or profit-sharing, labor
administration, and the distribution of shares of stocks, which will allow beneficiaries to
receive a just share of the fruits of the lands they work.
Agricultural Land refers to land devoted to agricultural activity as defined in this Act and not
classified as mineral, forest, residential, commercial or industrial land.
Agrarian Dispute refers to any controversy relating to tenurial arrangements, whether leasehold,
tenancy, stewardship or otherwise, over lands devoted to agriculture, including disputes
concerning farmworkers' associations or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing,
maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of such tenurial arrangements.

Administrative Order No. 03, Series of 2003 which provides for the 2003
Rules of Procedure for Agrarian Law Implementation (ALI) Cases. Under said
Rules of Procedure, the Regional Director has primary jurisdiction over all ALI cases,
while the DAR Secretary has appellate jurisdiction over such cases.
SEC. 24. Award to Beneficiaries. The rights and responsibilities of the
beneficiaries shall commence from their receipt of a duly registered
emancipation patent or certificate of land ownership award and their actual
physical possession of the awarded land. Such award shall be completed in
not more than one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of registration of
the title in the name of the Republic of the Philippines.

SEC. 25. Award Ceilings for Beneficiaries. Beneficiaries shall be awarded


an area not exceeding three (3) hectares, which may cover a contiguous
tract of land or several parcels of land cumulated up to the prescribed award
limits. The determination of the size of the land for distribution shall consider
crop type, soil type, weather patterns and other pertinent variables or factors
which are deemed critical for the success of the beneficiaries. "For purposes
of this Act, a landless beneficiary is one who owns less than three (3)
hectares of agricultural land.
SEC. 27. Transferability of Awarded Lands. Lands acquired by beneficiaries under
this Act or other agrarian reform laws shall not be sold, transferred or conveyed except
through hereditary succession, or to the government, or to the LBP, or to other qualified
beneficiaries through the DAR for a period of ten (10) years: Provided, however, That
the children or the spouse of the transferor shall have a right to repurchase the land
from the government or LBP within a period of two (2) years.
SECTION 50. Quasi-Judicial Powers of the DAR. The DAR is hereby vested with the
primary jurisdiction to determine and adjudicate agrarian reform matters and shall have
exclusive original jurisdiction over all matters involving the implementation of agrarian
reform except those falling under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Department of
Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). It
shall not be bound by technical rules of procedure and evidence but shall proceed to
hear and decide all cases, disputes or controversies in a most expeditious manner,
employing all reasonable means to ascertain the facts of every case in accordance with
justice and equity and the merits of the case. Toward this end, it shall adopt a uniform
rule of procedure to achieve a just, expeditious and inexpensive determination for every
action or proceeding before it.
Notwithstanding an appeal to the Court of Appeals, the decision of the DAR shall be
immediately executory except a decision or a portion thereof involving solely the issue
of just compensation.
"SEC. 50-A. Exclusive Jurisdiction on Agrarian Dispute. No court or prosecutor's
office shall take cognizance of cases pertaining to the implementation of the CARP
except those provided under Section 57 of Republic Act No. 6657, as amended. If there
is an allegation from any of the parties that the case is agrarian in nature and one of the
parties is a farmer, farmworker, or tenant, the case shall be automatically referred by the
judge or the prosecutor to the DAR which shall determine and certify within fifteen (15)
days from referral whether an agrarian dispute exists: Provided, That from the
determination of the DAR, an aggrieved party shall have judicial recourse. In cases
referred by the municipal trial court and the prosecutor's office, the appeal shall be with

the proper regional trial court, and in cases referred by the regional trial court, the
appeal shall be to the Court of Appeals
57. Special Jurisdiction. The Special Agrarian Courts shall have original and
exclusive jurisdiction over all petitions for the determination of just compensation to
landowners, and the prosecution of all criminal offenses under this Act. The Rules of
Court shall apply to all proceedings before the Special Agrarian Courts, unless modified
by this Act. The Special Agrarian Courts shall decide all appropriate cases under their
special jurisdiction within thirty (30) days from submission of the case for decision.
SECTION 65. Conversion of Lands. After the lapse of five (5) years from its award,
when the land ceases to be economically feasible and sound for agricultural purposes,
or the locality has become urbanized and the land will have a greater economic value
for residential, commercial or industrial purposes, the DAR, upon application of the
beneficiary or the landowner, with due notice to the affected parties, and subject to
existing laws, may authorize the reclassification or conversion of the land and its
disposition: Provided, That the beneficiary shall have fully paid his obligation.
SECTION 66. Exemptions from Taxes and Fees of Land Transfers. Transactions
under this Act involving a transfer of ownership, whether from natural or juridical
persons, shall be exempted from taxes arising from capital gains. These transactions
shall also be exempted from the payment of registration fees, and all other taxes and
fees for the conveyance or transfer thereof; Provided, That all arrearages in real
property taxes, without penalty or interest, shall be deductible from the compensation to
which the owner may be entitled.
SECTION 73. Prohibited Acts and Omissions. The following are prohibited: (a) The
ownership or possession, for the purpose of circumventing the provisions of this Act, of
agricultural lands in excess of the total retention limits or award ceilings by any person,
natural or juridical, except those under collective ownership by farmer-beneficiaries. (b)
The forcible entry or illegal detainer by persons who are not qualified beneficiaries
under this Act to avail themselves of the rights and benefits of the Agrarian Reform
Program. (c) The conversion by any landowner of his agricultural land into any
nonagricultural use with intent to avoid the application of this Act to his landholdings and
to dispossess his tenant farmers of the land tilled by them. (d) The willful prevention or
obstruction by any person, association or entity of the implementation of the CARP. (e)
The sale, transfer, conveyance or change of the nature of lands outside of urban
centers and city limits either in whole or in part after the effectivity of this Act. The date
of the registration of the deed of conveyance in the Register of Deeds with respect to
titled lands and the date of the issuance of the tax declaration to the transferee of the
property with respect to unregistered lands, as the case may be, shall be conclusive for

the purpose of this Act. (f) The sale, transfer or conveyance by a beneficiary of the right
to use or any other usufructuary right over the land he acquired by virtue of being a
beneficiary, in order to circumvent the provisions of this Act.
Sec.73 Prohibited Acts or Omissions
(d) The willful prevention or obstruction by any person, association or entity of the
implementation of the CARP.
2003 Rules on ALI Cases
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1. Classification and Identification of Landholdings for coverage under
agrarian reform program and Initial issuance of CLOAs and EPs,
including protests or oppositions thereto and petition for lifting of such
coverage
2. Classification, identification, inclusion, exclusion, qualification or
disqualification of potential/ actual Farmer beneficiaries
3. Subdivision Survey of Land under CARP
4. Recall or Cancellation of provisional lease rentals, CLTs and CARP BC in
cases outside the purview of PD 816 including the issuance, recall, or
cancellation of EPs or CLOAs not yet registered with the Register of
Deeds
5. Exercise of the right of Retention by landowner
6. Application for exemption from coverage under Sec. 10 of RA 6657
7. Application for exemption pursuant to DOJ No. 44(1990)
8. Exclusion from CARP coverage of Agricultural land used for livestock,
swine and poultry raising
9. Cases of exemption /exclusion of fishpond and prawn farms from CARP
coverage pursuant to RA 7881
10.
Issuance of Certificate of Exemption for land subject to VOS and
CA found unsuitable for agricultural purposes
11.
Application for Conversion of agricultural land to RCI and other
non agricultural purposes including protests and oppositions thereto
12.
Determination of the Rights of agrarian reform beneficiaries to
homelots
13.
Disposition of excess area of the tenant/FBs landholdings
14.
Increase in area of tillage of T/FB
15.
Conflict of claims in landed estates administered by DAR and its
predecessors
16.
Such Other agrarian cases, disputes, matters or concerns
referred to it by the DAR Secretary

2009 DARAB Rules


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1. The Rights and obligations of persons, whether natural or juridical,
engaged in the management, cultivation, and use of all agricultural lands
covered by R.A. No. 6657, otherwise known as the Comprehensive
Agrarian Reform Law (CARL), as amended, and other related agrarian laws
2. The Preliminary administrative determination of reasonable and just
compensation of lands acquired under Presidential Decree (PD) No. 27
and the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)
3. Those cases involving the Annulment or cancellation of lease contracts
or deeds of sale or their amendments involving lands under the
administration and disposition of the DAR or Land Bank of the Philippines
(LBP), and the amendment of titles pertaining to agricultural lands under
the administration and disposition of the DAR and LBP; as well as EPs
issued under PD 266, Homestead Patents, Free Patents, and
miscellaneous sales patents to settlers in settlement and re-settlement
areas under the administration and disposition of the DAR
4. Those cases involving the Ejectment and dispossession of tenants
and/or leaseholders
5. Those cases involving the Sale, alienation, pre-emption, and
redemption of agricultural lands under the coverage of the CARL, as
amended or other agrarian laws
6. Those involving the Correction, partition, secondary and subsequent
issuances such as reissuance of lost/destroyed owners duplicate copy
and reconstitution of Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOAs) and
Emancipation Patents (EPs) which are registered with the Land
Registration Authority
7. Those cases involving the Review of leasehold rentals and fixing of
disturbance compensation
8. Those cases involving the Collection of amortization payments,
foreclosure and similar disputes concerning the functions of the LBP, and
payments 7 for lands awarded under PD No. 27, RA No. 3844, as
amended, and R.A. No. 6657, as amended by R.A. No. 9700, and other
related laws, decrees, orders, instructions, rules, and regulations, as well

as payment for residential, commercial, and industrial lots within the


settlement and resettlement areas under the administration and
disposition of the DAR
9. Those cases involving Boundary disputes over lands under the
administration and disposition of the DAR and the LBP, which are
transferred, distributed, and/or sold to tenant-beneficiaries and are
covered by deeds of sale, patents, and certificates of title
10. Those cases involving the Determination of title to agricultural lands
where this issue is raised in an agrarian dispute by any of the parties or a
third person in connection with the possession thereof for the purposes of
preserving the tenure of the agricultural lessee or actual tenant-farmer or
farmer-beneficiaries and effecting the ouster of the interloper or intruder
in one and the same proceeding
11. Those cases previously falling under the original and exclusive
jurisdiction of the defunct Court of Agrarian Relations under Section 12 of
PD No. 946 except those cases falling under the proper courts or other
quasi-judicial bodies
12. Such other agrarian cases, disputes, matters or concerns referred to it
by the Secretary of the DAR.

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