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FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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First Regular Session 
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SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 647 
INTRODUCED BY SEN. JINGGOY EJERCITO ESTRADA 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
A comprehensive national land use policy is certainly among the essential 
factors in the collective pursuit of growth and development. The fact that there 
appears to be an absence of such policy partly explains our country's inability to 
move forward as it fails to justly provide for a rational, holistic and just allocation 
and utilization, management and development of the country's land resources that 
will truly ensure their optimum use consistent with the prinCiple of sustainable 
development. 
The proposed measure aims to critically address this predicament with the 
establishment of a "National Land Use Policy" that will institutionalize judicious and 
effective land use through provision of appropriate implementing mechanisms and 
strategies. 
Through this measure, there shall finally be an adoption of a land use and 
allocation pattern that promotes and ensures, among others: 
a) protection of prime agricultural lands; 
b) rational population distribution and settlements; 
c) energy security or energy self sufficiency through sustainable and 
priority development of indigenous energy resources; 
d) an integrated approach to the utilization and management of water 
as a limited resource that will complement and support sustainable 
land utilization and ensure water security; 
e) And others. 
There is so much hope once such policy is institutionalized. Hence, 
immediate passage of this proposed measure is earnestly sought. 
Senator 


FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
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SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 647 
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INTRODUCED BY SEN. JINGGOY EJERCITO ESTRADA 
AN ACT 
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INSTITUTING A NATIONAL LAND USE POLICY, PROVIDING THE 
IMPLEMENTING MECHANISMS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines 
in Congress assembled: 
CHAPTER I 
INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS 
SECTION 1. Title. - This Act shall be known as "The National Land Use 
Act of the Philippines". 
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is the policy of the State to provide for a 
rational, ho.iistic and just allocation, utilization, management and development of 
the country's land resources to ensure optimum use consistent with the principle of 
sustainable development. 
Toward this end, the State shall adopt a land use and allocation pattern that 
promotes and ensures: 
a) Protection of prime agricultural lands for food production activities and 
highest priority to the completion of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform 
Program (CARP): 
b) Food security in basic food commodities with emphasis on self-sufficiency 
in rice and corn production through efficient. and sustainable use of land 
resources consistent with the principles of sound agricultural development, 
natural resources development, and agrarian reform; 
c) Sustainable development, management and utilization of natural resources, 
and maintenance and preservation of environmental integrity and stability; 
d) Rational population distribution and settlements development; 
e) Equitable and sustainable economic growth, and balanced and dispersed 
industrial and tourism development guided by the principles of agrarian 
reform, urban land reform, and rural development; 
f) 
Energy security or energy self-sufficiency through sustainable and priority 
development of indigenous energy resources; 


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g) Harmony between the rights and the varied interests of every Filipino within 
the framework of people empowerment, decentralization, social justice, and 
equity; 
h) Respect and protection of the sustainable traditional resource rights of the 
indigenous cultural communitieslindigenous peoples (ICCs/IPs) to their 
ancestral domains to ensure their economic, social, and cultural well-being 
as well as recognition of the applicability of customary laws and sustainable 
traditional resource use and management, knowledge, and practices in 
ancestral domains; 
i) Protection of the rights of basic sectors to ensure equitable access to the 
country's land and other resources through state regulation of land 
valuation to prevent uncontrolled land speculation resulting in tremendous 
increase in land pricing; and 
j) An integrated approach to the utilization, allocation, development and 
management of water as a limited resource that will complement and 
support sustainable land utilization, and ensure water security. 
It is also the policy of the State to institutionalize land use and physical 
planning as a mechanism for identifying, determining, and evaluating alternative 
land use patterns. 
This shall be supported by a national land use allocation 
system and a land resource information and managernent system. 
Guided by the prinCiple that the use of land bears a social function and that all 
economic agents shall contribute to the common good, landowners shall be held 
responsible for developing and conserving their lands thereby making their lands 
productive and supportive of environmental stability. Multiple land usage is also 
encouraged to optimize utilization of our country's varied, but limited, resources. 
SEC. 3. Scope. ·This Act shall apply to all lands whether public, private, or 
government-owned, and/or in the possession of individuals, communities, or 
groups of people, to guide and/or govern the use, allocation, and management of 
land resources including such activities which bear impact on said resources. 
SEC. 4. Definition of Terms. -As used in and for purposes of this Act, the 
fallowing terms shall mean: 
a) "Agricultural Lands" refer to lands devoted to or suitable for the cultivation 
of the soil, planting of crops, growing of fruit trees, raising of livestock, 
poultry, fish or aquaculture production, including the harvesting of such farm 
products, and other farm activities and practices performed in conjunction 
with such farming operations by persons whether natural or juridical and not 
classified by law as mineral land, forest land, residential land, commercial 
land, or industrial land; 
b) "Agricultural Land Use Conversion" refers to the undertaking of any 
development activities which modify or alter the physical characteristics of 
agricultural lands to render them suitable for non-agricultural purposes with 
an approved order of conversion issued exclusively by the Land Use Policy 
Administration upon the recommendation of the Department of Agrarian 
Reform (DAR); 
c) "Alienable and Disposable Lands" refer to lands of the public domain which 
have been delineated, classified and certified as such and available for 


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disposition under Commonwealth Act No. 141, as amended, otherwise 
known as "The Public Land Act"; 
d) "Ancestral Domains" refer to all areas generally belonging to indigenous 
cultural communitieslindigenous peoples (ICCs/lPs) as defined in Republic 
Act No. 8371, otherwise known as "The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 
1997" or "PRA"; 
e) "Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP)" refers to a document embodying 
a set of policies accompanied by maps and similar illustrations which 
represent the community-desired pattem of population distribution and a 
proposal for the future allocation of land to the various land-using activities, 
in accordance with the social and economic objectives of the people. It 
identifies the location, character and extent of the area's land resources to 
be used for different purposes and induces the process and the criteria 
employed in the determination of the land use. It incorporates the protected 
areas including the protected agricultural lands provided for in Sec. 33 
hereof; 
f) "Comprehensive Land Use Planning" refers to the act of defining the 
allocation, utilization, development, and management of all lands within a 
given territory or jurisdiction according to the inherent characteristics of the 
land itself and supportive of sustainable, economic, demographic, socio-
cultural and environmental objectives as an aid to decision-making and 
legislation; 
g) "Coastal Area / Zone" is a band of dry land and adjacent sea or ocean 
space (water and submerged land) in which terrestrial processes and uses 
directly affect marine or oceanic processes and uses, and vice versa. Its 
landward limit shall be two (2) kilometers from the shoreline at highest high 
tide, to include mangrove swamps, brackish water ponds, nipa swamps and 
estuarine rivers, and its seaward limit shall be up to the 200-meter isobaths, 
to include sandy beaches, coral reefs, algal flats, seagrass beds and other 
soft-bottom areas; 
h) "Customary Laws" refer to a body of written and/or unwritten rules, usages, 
customs and practices traditionally and continually recognized, accepted, 
and observed by respective ICCslIPs consistent with the IPRA; 
i) "Development Plan" refers to a document which defines the activities or 
measures that the national government or local government units (LGUs) 
intend to implement in order to achieve a defined set of development goals. 
It integrates the socio-economic and sectoral plans of the national 
govemment or its instrumentality or a particular LGU with spatial plans such 
as land use or physical framework plans. It may include an analysis of 
problems and resources, definition of goals and objectives, policy 
guidelines, project and target achievements, and an implementation 
mechanism which defines the roles and contributions expected from the 
government and the private sector; 
j) "Disaster-Prone Areas" refer to areas frequently visited and/or prone to 
experience weather/climatic, 
hydrologic, geologic and other natural 
calamities: 
k) "Ecologically-Fragile Lands" refer to lands within the critical watershed, 
brackish and freshwater wetlands, pasture lands and croplands which 
require rehabilitation and whose continued unsustainable use would 


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adversely affect the productivity of lowland agricultural area and the stability 
of the upland system and the viability of other areas; 
I) "Energy Resources" refer to surface or subsurface substances, which serve 
as energy sources. These are traditionally mineral fuel deposits such as 
coal, petroleum, natural gas or resources from geothermal or hydro 
reservoirs, or non-conventional sources such as ocean waves, solar, wind, 
biomass, and other similar resources which serve the same purpose; 
m) "Energy Resource Lands" refer to lands where naturally occurring or 
indigenous energy resources exist in sufficient quantity or quality as to be 
economically viable for exploration, development, production, utilization, 
and distribution purposes; 
n) "Environmentally-Critical Areas" refer to areas declared by law or 
presidential issuance as: (a) protected areas pursuant to Republic Act No. 
7586 or the "NIPAS Act of 1992"; (b) areas for watershed reserves; (c) 
areas set aside as aesthetic potential tourist spots; (d) areas which 
constitute the habitat for any endangered or threatened species of 
indigenous Philippine wildlife (flora and fauna); (e) areas of unique historic, 
archeological and scientific interests; (f) areas that are traditionally occupied 
by the ICCs/IPs; (g) areas with critical slopes; (h) areas frequently visited 
and/or hard hit by natural calamities (geologic hazards, floods, typhoons 
and volcanic activities); (i) areas classified as prime agricultural lands; U) 
recharge areas of aquifers; (k) water bodies; (I) mangrove areas; (m) coral 
reefs; (n) mossy and virgin forests; (0) rivers and river banks; (p) swamp 
forest and marshlands; (q) foreshore lands; and (r) small islands five 
thousand (5,000) hectares and below in size. For purposes of this Act, this 
term shall also refer to other terrestrial, aquatic and marine areas that need 
special 
protection 
and 
conservation 
measures 
because they 
are 
ecologically fragile or they are needed for food security and food self-
sufficiency as determined by concerned agencies and local government 
units in consultation with the concerned sectors; 
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0) "Exhausted Energy Resource Lands" refer to specific energy resource sites 
whose energy reserves of the desired type(s) are no longer in sufficient 
quantity or quality to justify additional expenditure for their extraction and 
utilization; 
p) "Exhausted Mineral Lands" refer to specific sites whose mineral deposits 
are no longer insufficient quantity or quality to justify additional expenditure 
for their extraction and utilization. 
q) "Food Self-Sufficiency" refers to the policy objective of meeting the food 
requirements through intensive local food production in a sustainable 
manner based on the country's existing and potential resource endowments 
and related production advantages; 
r) "Food Security" refers to the policy objective, plan and strategy of meeting 
the food requirements of the present and future generations of Filipinos in 
quantity, ensuring the availability, accessibility and affordability of food to 
all, either though local production or importation, or both, based on the 
country's existing and potential resource endowment and related production 
advantages, 
and 
consistent with the overall national development 
objectives and policies; 


s) "Forestlands" refer to those lands of the public domain which have been 
subjected to land evaluation and classification and have been legally 
designated as such for production forest and protection/amenity forest. 
They include the public forest, the permanent forest or forest reserves, and 
forest reservations; 
t) "Foreshore Lands" refers to a string of land that margins a body of water or 
the shore between the lowest low waterline or a low tide terrace and the 
upper limit of wave wash at highest high tide, usually marked by a beach 
scarp or berm; 
u) "Geo-Hazard Areas" refer to areas where natural or man-induced 
geological processes that have the potential to cause destruction and pose 
threat or risk to man's life and property take place; 
v) "Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs)" refer to 
a group of people or homogenous societies defined under Republic Act No, 
8371, otherwise known as "The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997" or 
"IPRA"; 
w) "Indigenous Energy Resources" refer to energy resources, which originate 
or occur naturally in the Philippines; 
x) "Inland Waters" refer to waters which are not coastal and marine waters not 
subject to acquisitive prescription consistent with the provisions of 
Presidential Decree No.1 067, otherwise known as "The 'Water Code of the 
Philippines"; 
y) "Land" refers to resources, both natural and man-made, found on the 
surface, below and above the ground including inland waters and the air 
therein; 
z) "Land Sub-classification" refers to the act of determining and assigning the 
uses of classified public lands such as Jorest or timber lands, national 
parks and mineral lands in accordance with existing laws; 
(aa) "Land Use" refers to the manner of utilizing the land, including its 
allocation, development and management; 
(bb) "Land Use Classification" refers to the act of delineating or 
allocating lands according to protection land use, production land use, 
settlements development, infrastructure development; and other land 
uses as defined and provided for in this Act; 
(cc) 
"Land 
Use Policy Administration (LUPA)" refers to an 
administrative, regulatory and quasi-judicial body provided for under this 
Act which shall he the final authority in all matters relating to land use 
planning; 
(dd) 
"Mandatory Public 
Hearings/Consultations" refers to the 
mechanism for ensuring the involvement of the affected stakeholders in 
·Iand use planning from local to national level. It involves giving notice of 
hearing/consultation to affected stakeholders by publication or posting in 
conspicuous cases, conduct of reasonable number of hearings, 
solicitation of positions and public presentation and validation of the 
planning results before its finalization; 
(ee) "Mineral Lands" refer to lands where mineral resources are found; 


(ff) "National Parks" refer to land of the public domain classified as such 
in the 1987 Philippine Constitution which include all areas under the 
National Integrated Protected Areas System pursuant to Republic Act 
No. 7586 or the "NIPAS Act of 1992"; 
(gg) "Non-agricultural Land Use Conversion" refers to the act of 
changing the current use of a piece of non-agricultural land into some 
other uses; 
(hh) "Non-Government Organization (NGO)" refers to a private, non-
profit voluntary organization that is committed to the task of political, 
socio-economic, physical, cultural and environmental development and 
established primarily to provide service to marginalized sectors in these 
areas; 
(ii) "People's Organization (PO)" refers to a private, ion-profit, voluntary 
and community-based organization established primarily to provide 
service to its members and the community in general; 
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"Physical Framework Plans" refer to indicative plans based on 
comprehensive land use plans (CLUPs) and national policies whether 
national, regional, or provincial which provide policy guidelines for all 
decisions relating to land use and environmental management to 
prevent or mitigate the adverse effects of inappropriate resource 
utilization on food security, the people's welfare and their environment. It 
embodies both policies and strategies necessary to carry out 
development goals and objectives; 
'(kk) "Premature or Illegal Conversion of Agricultural Land" refers to the 
undertaking of any activity whose results will modify or alter the physical 
characteristics of agricultural lands to render them suitable for non-
agricultural purposes without an approved order of conversion from the 
LUPA, 
(II) "Prime Agricultural Lands" refer to lands that can be used for various 
or specific agricultural activities and can provide optimum and 
sustainable yield with a minimum of inputs and development costs; 
(mm) "Production Land Use" refers to the direct and indirect utilization 
of land to generate outputs resulting from the following activities: 
agricultural, fish farming or aquaculture, timber or agro-forestry, grazing 
and pasture, mining, industrial, tourism, and indigenous energy resource 
development; 
(nn) "Protected Area" refers to identified portions of land and water set 
aside by reason of their unique physical and biological significance, 
managed to enhanced biological diversity and protected against 
destructive human exploitation pursuant to Republic Act No. 7586 or the 
"NIPAS Act of 1992", For purposes of this Act, it shall include 
agricultural lands identified and delineated under Sec. 33 hereof; 
(00) "Protection Land Use" refers to the utilization of land primarily for 
the rehabilitation, conservation and protection purposes and the 
promotion of the country's ecological and life-support systems; 


(pp) "Public Domain" refers to lands belonging to the State which may 
either be agricultural, forest or timber, mineral or national park as 
provided for in the Constitution; 
(qq) 
"Public Lands" refer to lands which have not been subject to 
private property rights or subject to sale or other modes of acquisition of 
:concession, under the general laws, and are devoted to public use; 
(rr) "Resettlement Areas" refer to areas identified by the appropriate 
national agency or by the local government unit with respect to areas 
within its jurisdiction, which shall be used for the relocation of the 
underprivileged, homeless citizens, and informal settlers; 
(ss) 
"Settlement" refers to the habitat, community or built-up 
environment where people prefer to live in; 
(tt) "Settlements Development" refers to any improvement on existing 
settlements, or any proposed development of certain areas for 
settlement purposes. 
It also involves the spatial distribution of 
population, identification of the roles and functions of key urban centers, 
and determination of relationships among settlement areas, and the 
provision of basic services and facilities of identified major settlement 
areas or growth centers; 
(uu) "Shoreline" is the line where shore and water meet. "Shore" is the 
narrow strip of rand in immediate contact with any body of water, 
including the area between high and low water lines; 
(vv) 
"Socialized Housing" refers to housing programs and projects 
undertaken by the Government or the private sector for the 
underprivileged, homeless citizens, and informal settlers which shall 
include sites and services development, long-term financing, liberalized 
terms on interest payments, and such other benefits in accordance with 
the provisions of Republic Act No. 7279, otherwise known as the "Urban 
Development and Housing Act of 1992" (UDHA); 
(ww) 
"Socialized Housing Zones" refer to lands identified and 
designated by the local government units as sites for socialized housing 
pursuant to Article 1 V of Republic Act No. 7279 and its implementing 
guidelines; 
(xx) 
"Sub-Classification Or Reclassification Of Agricultural Lands" 
refers to the process undertaken by the local government units of 
allocating in their respective territorial jurisdictions the declared 
agricultural lands to specific uses such as residential, industrial or 
commercial purposes. It shall serve as one of the bases for application 
. for land conversion by the owners thereof and shall constitute the power 
of the local government units to reclassify lands under Sec. 20 of 
Republic Act No. 7160, otherwise known as the "Local Government 
Code of 1991" consistent with the provisions of this Act; 
(yy) "Sustainable Development" refers to the development objective of 
meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of 
future generations to meet their own weds consistent with the principles 
of social equity, efficiency and environmental integrity; 
(zz) "Tourism Development Areas" refer to specific sites for tourism 
development located in areas identified as priorities in the national and 


regional tourism master plans as well as those designated through 
legislative and executive issuances as tourist spots and tourist zones 
which can be developed into tourism estates or integrated resort, leisure 
and recreation complexes, and other tourism related facilities; 
(aaa) "Tourism Estates" refer to large tracts of land with well-defined 
boundaries in any area identified in the Philippine Tourism Master 
Plan, Regional Tourism Master Plans, by proclamation of the 
President and/or by acts of Congress including local and integrated 
tourism 
and 
resort 
complex 
including 
but 
not 
limited 
to 
accommodation facilities, food and beverages outlets, convention 
and meeting areas, sports, recreational and leisure centers and 
commercial outlets among others. The estate shall be under one 
unified and continuous management; 
(bbb) "Tourist Zone" refers to a geographic area with well-defined 
boundaries proclaimed as such by the President and/or by acts of 
Congress and is established for the enhancement and/or the 
conservation of natural attributes and man-made resources as well 
as the preservation of cultural and historical heritage for the 
appreciation and enjoyment of the local population and the visitors; 
(ccc) "Tourist Spot" refers to a particular area, site or spot, whether 
man-made or natural, known for its unique tourist or visitor drawing 
attributes and activities. It may be classified according to its social, 
cultural, natural, historical, scientific, religious and recreational 
significance; 
(ddd) "Urban areas" refer to all cities regardless of their population 
density and to municipalities with a population density of at least five 
hundred (500) persons per square kilometer; 
(eee) 
"Urbanizable areas" refer to sites and lands which, 
considering present characteristics and prevailing conditions, display 
marked and great potential of becoming urban areas within the 
period of five (5) years; 
(fff) "Water Security" is sufficient access throughout the year to the 
minimum daily requirement of clean water to maintain a healthy life; 
(ggg) "Water Use" is the appropriation of water for domestic, 
municipal, irrigation, power generation, inland fisheries, poultry and 
livestock, industrial and commercial, environmental, and recreational 
use; 
(hhh) 
"Watershed" refers to a catchment area or drainage basin 
from which the waters of a stream or stream system are drawn; 
(iii) "Zoning" refers to the regulatory tool for delineating the specific 
uses of lands in accordance with the approved comprehensive land 
use plan within the territorial jurisdiction of a city or municipality and 
specifying the conditions for their regulation, subject to the limitations 
imposed by law and competent authority; and, 
Ojj) "Zoning Ordinance (ZO)" refers to a local legislation approving 
the development/land use plan and providing for the regulations and 
other conditions on the uses of land including the limitation on the 


infrastructure that may be placed within the territorial jurisdiction of a 
city or municipality, It incorporates the protected areas under Section 
14 (a) and the protected agricultural lands under Section 33 hereof. 
CHAPTER" 
NATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR LAND USE PLANNING 
Article One 
Physical Framework and Land Use Plans 
SEC. 5. National Land Use Planning and Zoning Guidelines and 
Standards . • Within six (6) months from the effectivity of the Act, the Land Use 
Policy Administration (LUPA), created under this Act, shall, in consultation with the 
concerned stakeholders through rnandatory conduct of public hearings, formulate 
national land use planning and zoning guidelines and standards which shall guide 
the local government units (LGUs) in formulating their Comprehensive Land Use 
Plans (CLUPs) and enacting their zoning ordinances (ZOs). Standards and 
guidelines on land we shall be set at the national level for major island groupings 
based on available data provided by the existing mapping program. The guidelines 
and standards shall, among others, include: (a) the implementing rules and 
regulations of this Act; (b) the delineated protected areas 
including the agricultural lands that are given protection under Section 33 of this 
Act which areas shall be incorporated in the following plans and shall not be 
subject to reduction except by laws or issuances from the concerned national 
agencies; and, (c) the spatial implications of relevant national policies, national 
development plan, and existing sectoral plans which are consistent with the 
provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 6. City and Municipal Land Use Plans. -Consistent with the 
preceding section and in consultation with the concerned stakeholders through 
mandatory conduct of public hearings, the cities and the municipalities through 
their local development councils shall prepare their respective CLLJPs to 
determine the specific uses of their land and other physical resources, including 
the delineation of actual boundaries on the ground on the territorial jurisdiction of 
the city or municipality and the translation and integration of sectoral plans in their 
respective plans. Protected areas pursuant to Section 14 and other existing laws 
and issuances as well as the agricultural lands identified and delineated under 
Section 33, and the identified socialized housing sites under Sections 58 and 59 
hereof shall be incorporated in the CLUPs but the respective LGUs shall not 
diminish the areas included therein. 
SEC. 7. Provincial and Regional Physical Framework Plans. -In 
consultation with the concerned stakeholders through mandatory conduct of public 
hearings, the Provincial Development Council (PDC) and the Regional Land Use 
Committee (RLUC) as provided for in Section 25 hereof shall prepare their 
respective provincial and regional physical framework plans (PPFPs and RPFPs) 
which shall consolidate, integrate, harmonize, and reconcile the land use plans of 
the component cities and municipalities of respective provinces or the land use 
plans of respective provinces and independent and highly urbanized cities located 
in the concerned regions, as the case may he, based on the preceding standards 
and guidelines as well as the city and municipal CLUPs. 
SEC. 8. Land Use Plans for Ancestral Domains. - Land use plans for the 
delineated and recognized ancestral domains shall be formulated by the 
indigenous cultural communitieslindigenous peoples (ICCs/lPs) themselves in 
accordance with their particular needs and traditional resource and management 
systems with the assistance of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples 


(NCIP) and the LGUs concerned. Such plans shall be recognized and integrated in 
the CLUPs as well as in the provincial, regional and national physical framework 
plans. CLUPs or physical framework plans made prior to delineation of ancestral 
domains included in such plans or ordinances shall be without prejudice to the 
right of the ICCslIPs concerned to adopt different land use categories in 
accordance with their particular needs and traditional resource and management 
systems. 
SEC. 9. National Physical Framework Plan. -Based on the completed 
CLUPs, the PPFP, and the RPFP, the LUPA may revise the standards and 
guidelines in Section 5 hereof, except with respect to the delineated and protected 
areas which may be subject to review every five (5) years, and formulate the 
National Physical Framework Plan (NPFP). The NPFP shall define the objectives, 
pOlicies and strategies on the indicative uses of land and other physical resources 
of the country to guide and support the implementation of the national 
development plan. Upon its completion, all subsequent planning processes 
pertaining ,to the use of land resources shall conform to the mandatory provisions 
of the NPFP, particularly with respect to the protected areas. 
However, in case of national emergency or security, or when public interest 
so demands, as certified by the President, the LUPA is empowered to review 
and/or revise the NPFP whenever necessary, without prejudice to actions that may 
be taken by affected individuals, groups, or entities, whether public or private. 
Article Two 
Local Land Use Planning and Zoning 
SEC. 10. Basis of City / Municipality Land Use Plans. -The CLUPs of 
cities and municipalities shall be formulated in consonance with the results of 
mandatory consultations of the various stakeholders in the community and subject 
to the nationally prescribed standards and guidelines pursuant to Sections 5 and 9 
hereof. 
SEC. 11. Coverage and Basis of Zoning. - Zoning shall cover all alienable 
and disposable lands, government-owned lands, and private lands in the territorial 
jurisdiction of the city or municipality incorporating those declared as protected 
areas including those areas given protection under Section 33 hereof. The zoning 
plan and ordinance of LGUs shall be based on their respective approved CLUPs. 
SEC. 12. Period to Conduct Land Use Planning and Zoning. - Within six 
(6) months from the issuance of the guidelines and standards as provided for in 
Section 5 of this Act, all cities and municipalities shall prepare and enact their 
respective CLUPs and 20s. The actual zoning of communities based on the 
standards and guidelines shall be conducted before the approval of the NPFP. 
Thereafter, the CLUPs and ZOs based on NPFP as provided for in Section 9 
hereof may be subject to review or revision every seven (7) years or as mandated 
by the LUPA. 
Article'Three 
Framework for Land Use Planning 
SEC. 13. Basic Land Use Planning Considerations. -In determining the 
various land uses as provided for in Section 14 hereof, the physical characteristics 
of the land including the following shall be considered: 
a) Geology, geomorphology, geologic hazards, (e.g., seismic, volcanic, mass 
movements, landslide, (etc.) soil and slope; 


b) Demography (population size, growth and distribution); 
c) Food security, socio-economic and related development activities; 
d) Energy security and self-sufficiency; 
e) Existing and potential land use; 
f) Environmental, natural resources, and other constraints; 
g) Existing government policies on land allocation, utilization, management 
and disposition. 
SEC. 14. Categories of Land Uses for Planning Purposes. -In determining 
and defining the NPFF, RPFPs/PPFPs and the CLUPs, land uses shall be 
grouped into four major functional uses as follows: 
a) Protection Land Use. - the adoption of which intends to protect. preserve 
and enhance critical ecosystems from any human encroachment, 
regenerate and rehabilitate degraded land and other physical resources, 
ensure safeguard against environmental hazards including those resulting 
from unregulated activities, and enhance and sustain the benefits derived 
from maintaining the integrity of the nation's land resources. Areas to be 
covered under this category are those under the National Integrated 
Protected Areas System (NIPAS) as provided for by R.A. No. 7506 and 
those outside the NIPAS which require rehabilitation and protection as 
identified by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources 
(DENR), in coordination with concerned LGUs and national government 
agencies (NGAs), and in consultation with concerned stakeholders; 
b) Production Land Use. - the adoption of which aims to determine the most 
efficient, sustainable, and equitable manner of utilizing, developing and 
managing land for productive purposes. Areas included under this category 
are agricultural lands even though identified and delineated as protected 
under Section 33 hereof, coastal zones excluding those declared by DENR 
and other similar government agencies that are in environmentally critical 
conditions, production forest, mineral lands, energy resource lands, 
industrial development areas, and tourism development areas; 
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c) Settlements Development. - the adoption of which seeks to promote an 
orderly, equitable, and sustainable development of human settlements 
responsive to the needs of its inhabitants and the environment. 
Classification shall be made based on the predominant economic and 
socio-cultural activities, as urban or mal, and based on the topography and 
slope of land as upland, hillside, lowland, or coastal. Major uses under this 
category shall include: residential, including relocation and resettlement 
sites for socialized housing as provided for in R.A. No. 7279 (or the "Urban 
Development and Housing Act of 1992' or 'UDHA') and socialized housing 
zones; commercial, industrial; institutional, (e.& sites of government offices, 
health and education), utilities; tourism, recreational, including parks, urban 
forests, open or green space; waste disposal; and roads, rail transportation 
networks, and facilities; 
d) Infrastructure Development. -which shall cover areas identified by the 
LGUs, the National Economic and Development, Authority (NEDA), and 
other concerned agencies as sites for priority infrastructure projects which 
shall include, among others: power plantslstations and major substations; 
indigenous energy resource exploration and development; irrigation and 
flood control sewerage and drainage facilities; water supply system and 
treatment plants; airports/seaports/fishports; major road, bridge, and railway 
trunklines; farm-to-market roads; agricultural research and development 
farms and/or stations; waste disposal facilities; educational facilities; health 


facilities; telecommunications stations / other facilities; disaster mitigation 
facilities; and market sites: Provided, That the determination of functional 
uses of lands within ancestral domains need not necessarily follow the land 
use categories provided for in this Act and separate land use categories for 
delineated ancestral domains may be formulated by the concerned 
ICCs/IPs themselves in accordance with their particular needs and 
traditional resource and management systems. 
SEC. 15. Multiple Land Uses. -Subject to the provisions of this Act, the LUPA 
shall encourage multiple land uses as long as they are complementary and not 
incompatible with each other. 
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SEC. 16. Categories of Water Uses for Planning Purposes. -For purposes 
of this' Act, the categories of water uses for planning purposes shall be in 
accordance with existing laws. Notwithstanding such laws, the categories to be 
adopted must complement and support the foregoing categories for land use 
planning. Within six (6) months from the effectivity of this Act, after the conduct of 
public consultations, the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) and the LUPA 
shall jointly adopt and issue implementing guidelines, rules, and regulations that 
will promote the integration of sound water resource utilization, allocation, 
management, and development with the requirements of sustainable land use 
planning. 
CHAPTER III 
IMPLEMENTINGSTRUCTURE AMD NIECHANISM 
Article One 
Land Use Policy Administration 
SEC. 17.' Creation of the Land Use Policy Administration (LUPA). -The 
Land Use Policy Administration (LUPA) is hereby created which shall he the 
highest policy making body on land use and shall perform the task of integration of 
efforts, monitoring of developments relating to land use, evolution of policies, and 
regulation and direction of land use planning processes. The powers and functions 
vested by law 10 the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) and to the 
National Land Use Committee (NLUC) under the National Economic Development 
Authority (NEDA) pertaining to land use are hereby transferred to the LUPA. 
SEC. 18. Executive Board. -The LUPA shall have an Executive Board, 
hereinafter referred to as the Board, whose main function is to direct the 
implementation of the provisions of this Act, and shall be composed of nineteen 
(19) members. 
a) The Executive Secretary as Chairperson; 
b) The Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources 
(DENR) and the Director-General of the National Economic Development 
Authority (NEDA) as Vice-Chairpersons; 
c) The Secretaries of Agriculture; Agrarian Reform; Trade and Industry; Public 
Works and Highways; Transportation and Communications; Energy; 
Science and Technology; Tourism; Interior and Local Governments and 
Justice as members; 
d) The Chairperson of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating 
Council (HUDCC) as member; 


e) Four (4) representatives from the different basic sectors with direct 
involvement in sustainable land use such as urban poor, peasants, 
fisherfolks, and indigenous peoples -who shall be appOinted by the 
President based on the nomination and recommendation of the sectors that 
they respectively represent as members; 
f) The Administrator of the LUPA, as ex-officio member, who shall likewise act 
as Secretary to the Board. 
A consultative body composed of representatives from the Leagues of 
Municipalities, Cities, and Provinces and from non-government sector such as the 
business sector, NGOs and POs, and the academic community shall likewise be 
convened every two (2) months. 
SEC. 19. Powers and Functions. -The LUPA shall have the following powers 
and functions: 
a) Formulate policies on, and promulgate, in consultation with all concerned 
stakeholders, national standards and guidelines on land use and zoning 
under Sections 5 and 9 hereof, and issue corresponding rules and 
regulations to enforce in compliance thereof; 
b) Formulate NPFP and RPFPs based on land use plans at the local levels 
that shall serve as guide in translating the national development plan and 
pertinent sectoral plans consistent with the provisions of this Act into 
physical and spatial terms; 
c) Establish a National Land Use Allocation System which shall provide 
detailed guidelines on land use policy areas or categories for land use 
p'lanning under Section 14 hereof; 
d) Establish a National Land Resource Information and Management System, 
which shall integrate and process information on land use and allocation 
generated by the various national government agencies, define information 
requirements at various levels, and standardize information inputs/outputs 
including scales and symbols in the case of territorial and sectoral maps; 
e) Undertake the gathering of data, the conduct of studies pertaining to land 
use planning, including studies on the management of identified land uses, 
and such other stUdies not undertaken by other government agencies; 
f) Coordinate with, and assist other government agencies and LGUs in 
planning, developing, and implementing their land use classification 
programs, and to furnish, to the extent possible, technical assistance and 
guidance; 
g) Monitor and coordinate concerned agencies and entities of the government 
in the enforcement and implementation of policies and regulations relating 
to land use and resource management and development; 
h) Hear mid resolve conflicts in land use planning, classification, and allocation 
that may arise: (1) at the first instance -between NGAs, between an NGA 
and an LGU, between an NGA and any regional or local planning bodies, 
and other cases not falling under its appellate capacity; (2) in its appellate 
capacity -with respect to conflicts arising from the disapproval/ modification 
of CLUPs of component cities and municipalities by provinces and from the 
disapproval/modification of PPFPs of provinces by the RLUCs or of Die 


CLWs of independent component and highly-urbanized cities also by the 
RLUCs; 
i) Call on and deputize any department, bureau, office, agency or 
instrumentality of the government, including the police forces, and or private 
entities and organization for cooperation, support, and assistance in the 
performance of its functions; 
j) Adopt its own organizational plan and staffing pattern, create central and 
regional offices, and assist the LGUs in the ton nation of local land use 
committees; and, 
k) Perform such other acts and functions and exercise such other powers as 
may be necessarily implied, inherent, incident, or related to the foregoing. 
SEC. 20. Offices, Units and Staff SUpport. - The LUPA shall be assisted by a 
secretariat under the general supervision of the Administrator. 
The Administrator may organize at the central and regional levels such 
offices as may be necessary subject to civil service rules and regulations. 
Subject to existing laws, rules and regulations aid until such time that LUPA 
shall have been fully organized and operational, agencies performing functions 
related to land use shall continue to discharge the same, under the operational 
supervision and control of LUPA and consistent with the national guidelines and 
standards set forth in Section 5 hereof. 
SEC. 21. Powers and Functions of the Administrator. -The Administrator 
shall have the following powers and functions: 
a) Act as the executive bead of the LUPA and perform the powers and 
functions incidental to said position; 
b) Be responsible for the implementation and overall execution of the policies, 
rules and regulations, and decisions adopted by the Board; and as such, 
he/she 
shall 
issue 
the 
corresponding 
implementing 
administrative 
issuances, and promulgate opinions and interpretative circulars and rulings 
to ensure expeditious and effective implementation thereof; and, 
c) Perform such other powers and functions as may be inherent, incidental, or 
related to the foregoing. 
The decisions of the Administrator may be appealed to the LUPA Board. 
SEC. 22. Qualifications of the Administrator. -The Administrator must have 
a background or Significant training preferably in the field of environmental and/or 
physical planning, land resources .management, or development planning, and 
management for a period of at least five (5) years. He/she shall he appointed by 
the President and shall have the rank of a Cabinet Secretary. 
SEC. 23. Qualifications, Rank and Duties of the Deputy Administrator. -
The Administrator shall be assisted by a Deputy Administrator who shall be 
appointed by the President upon the recommendation of the Board. The Deputy 
Administrator shall have the same qualifications as the Administrator and shall 
have the rank of an Undersecretary. 


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The Deputy Administrator shall be the operational administrative manager 
of the LUPA and shall assist the Administrator in his/ her routine housekeeping 
functions. 
Article Two 
Land Development Councils and Land Use Committees 
SEC. 24. Local Development Councils and Land Use Committees. -The 
formulation of the CLUPs and PPFPs shall be the primary responsibility of the 
Local Development Councils (LDCs). The LGUs without existing LDCs as 
mandated by R.A. No, 7160 shall create their respective LDCs within one (1) year 
from the effectivity of this Act. 
Local land use committees pertain to the provincial, city, or municipal land 
use committees (PLUCs, CLUCs, MLUCs) formed by the LDCs. Existing and 
newly formed LDCs shall create within one (1) year from the effectivity of this Act 
or from their creation as the case may be, a local land use committee to assist 
them in performing such functions as defined in this Act: Provided, That 
membership therein must, among others, include representatives from concerned 
NGOs and POs, such as but not limited to peasants, fisherfolks, urban poor, and 
indigenous cultural communities/indigenous peoples, Other concerned sectors 
shall also be invited during committee deliberations and public hearings. The 
CLUCs/MLUCs shall likewise solicit the land use positions, views, perspectives 
and issues raised and articulated by the concerned communities through their 
respective barangay representatives who shall also participate during the public 
hearings. Until such time that the LUPA shall have created its counterpart 
committees at the regional level, the Regional Land Use Committees (RLUCs) 
under the Regional Development Councils (RDCs) shall act as the counterpart of 
the LUPA and shall perform such functions as defined under this Act. 
Article Three 
Adoption, Approval and Review of Land Use Plans 
SEC. 25. Component Cities and Municipalities. -Component cities and 
municipalities shall have the power and authority to adopt and approve their 
respective CLUPs and ZOs through their respective sanggunians but subject to 
the power of review of their respective provinces only with respect to the 
consistency of the CLUPs and ZOs with Sections 5 and 9 hereof. 
SEC. 26. Provinces and Independent and Highly-Urbanized Cities. -
Provinces and independent and highly urbanized cities shall have the power and 
authority to adopt and approve their respective CLWs and ZOs through their 
respective sanggunians but subject to the power of review of the LUPA through its 
RLUCs or as provided for in Section 25 hereof and only with respect to the 
consistency of the CLUPs and ZOs with Sections 5 and 9 hereof. 
Article Four 
Responsibilities of the National Government Agencies and LGUs 
SEC. 27. National Base Mapping Program. -A National Mapping Program 
shall be implemented, coordinated, and monitored through the creation of an inter-
agency technical committee composed of the LUPA, as the lead agency, the 
National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA), the Bureau of 
Soils and Water Management (BSWM), the Mines and Geosciences Bureau 
(MGB), the Forest Management Bureau (FMB), the Land Management Bureau 
(LMB), the Protected Areas And Wildlife Bureau (PAWB), the Philippine Institute of 


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Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), the Department of Agrarian Reform 
(DAR), the National Water Resources Board (NWRB), the Department of Energy 
(DOE), and other concerned government agencies/ bureaus. 
For purposes of uniformity and standardization, the LGUs, to be assisted by 
the appropriate agencies of the national government, shall likewise prepare their 
respective territorial maps using scales, symbols, and other indicators to he 
prescribed in accordance with this Act. 
SEC. 28. National Geo-hazard Mapping Program. - A nationwide Geo-
hazard Mapping Prograrn shall be implemented jointly though the LUPA by the 
PHIVOLCS, the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM), the Philippine 
Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), 
and the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB), in coordination with the National 
Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), the Regional Disaster Coordinating 
Councils (RDCCs), and other concerned government agencies. The program shall 
include the generation of indicative geo-hazard zoning maps that will outline areas 
in the Philippines prone to liquefaction, landslides, flooding, lahar, ground 
rupturing, tsunami, river erosion, coastal erosion, sinkhole collapse, earthquake, 
lava flow, pyroclastic flow, base surge, and other natural hazards. 
For purposes of uniformity and standardization and in order 'to develop a 
safe built environment, the LGUs shall incorporate and integrate the generated 
geo-hazard zoning maps in the preparation of their respective CLUPs and 205. 
The geo-hazard maps shall serve as guide for all the LGUs in the preparation of 
their own hazards-constrained development plans. 
SEC. 29. Scope and Nature of Responsibilities of Other National 
Government Agencies (NGAs). -All concerned NGAs shall periodically report to 
the LLPA on the various activities and. accomplishments relative to land use. 
Likewise, they shall provide for their respective sectoral development plans and 
render technical and administrative support if called upon by the LUPA relative to 
the implementation of the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 30. Submission of Annual Report on the Implementation of 
CLUPs and ZOs. -The LDCs shall submit an annual report on the implementation 
of their land use plans and zoning ordinances to the LUPA through the 
Sangguniang Panlalawigan, or in the case of highly- urbanized and independent 
cities, through their respective Sangguniang Panlungsod. 
CHAPTER IV 
SPECIAL AREAS OF CONCERN 
Article One 
Agricultural Lands 
SEC. 31. Priority Areas for Agricultural Development. -Priority areas for 
agricultural development must be based on the Strategic Agricultural and Fisheries 
Development Zones (SAFDZs) as defined in R.A. No. 8435, otherwise known as 
the Agricultural and fisheries Modernization Act of 1997 (AFMA). 
SEC. 32. Conversion of Agricultural Lands. -Agricultural lands are 
deemed converted to "on-agricultural uses upon approval of the application for 
conversion by the LUPA as recommended by the DAR and as certified by the DA. 
Prime agricultural lands and specific types of lands to the extent necessary for 
attaining food self-sufficiency in rice and corn and food security in other basic 


commodities, as determined by the DA, subject to mandatory consultation with the 
LGUs, the private sector, the NGOs, and POs shall be protected from conversion. 
Such protection shall include, but not limited to, areas under the Network of 
Protected Areas for Agricultural and Agro-Industrial Development (NPAAAD): 
Provided, That all irrigated and irrigable lands, all lands with existing or potential 
for high value crops, all agricultural lands that are ecologically fragile and whose 
conversion will result into serious environmental problems shall be given full 
protection from conversion. Such protected agricultural lands and areas shall be 
subject, to review every five (5) years by the DA, after the conduct of mandatory 
public hearings/consultations: Provided, further, That consistent with the State 
policy on giving priority to the completion of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform 
Program (CARP), all the remaining lands subject to CAW, including those lands 
covered under the notice of compulsory acquisition/voluntary offer to sell, 
production or profit-sharing, or commercial farm deferment of the CARP, shall also 
be fully protected from conversion pending the distribution and installation of the 
farmer beneficiaries; but thereafter, Section 65 of R.A. No. 6657 shall apply: 
Provided, finally, That pending the completion of the mapping, the identification of 
specific areas under the NPAAAD and the SAFDZs under R.A. No. 8435, the 
revision thereof pursuant to the foregoing, and the incorporation thereof in the 
NF'FP, there shall be a moratorium in all applications for conversion of agricultural 
lands into non-agricultural uses commencing from the effectivity of this Act, except 
for priority infrastructure projects that are of national interest pursuant to Sec. 63 
and 64 hereof. The application for conversion of these protected areas shall not be 
given due course by the DAR and the LUPA. 
SEC. 33. Sub-classification or Reclassification of Agricultural Lands 
by LGUs.- Sub-classification or reclassification of agricultural lands to other uses 
under Section 20 of R.A. No. 7160 or the Local Government Code of 1991 shall 
exclude the protected agricultural lands as stated in the preceding section. The 
result of such sub-classification/reclassification shall constitute the actual plan for 
allocating the future uses of lands within the territorial jurisdictions of LGUs and is 
not synonymous to conversion. After the completion of the mapping of protected 
agricultural lands, the DA and the DAR shall provide the LGUs with a complete list 
and maps thereof. 
Article Two 
Other Land Use Conversion 
SEC. 34. Conversion of Non-Agricultural Lands. -The approved CLUPs 
and 20s of cities or municipalities shall be the basis for authorizing the change of 
non-agricultural lands to other uses, such as from residential to commercial and/or 
industrial 
subject, 
however, to 
national 
guidelines 
and 
standards, 
and 
subsequently, the NPFP. A public hearing is required before any CLUP/ZO is 
passed. The Sangguniang Panlungsod or Sangguniang Bayan shall approve any 
application for change of land use of non-agricultural lands based on the 
recommendation of the CLUC/MLUC. 
Article Three 
Forestlands and Preservation of Watersheds 
SEC.35. Reversion of Alienable and Disposable Lands to Forestlands -
Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the DENR, duly reviewed and 
endorsed by the LUPA, and after due consultations with the concerned LGUs and. 
affected parties, Congress may authorize the reversion of alienable and 
disposable lands of the public domain or portion thereof to forestlands. 


SEC. 36. Determination of Forest Limit. -Within one (1) year after the 
release of the budget appropriated for the purpose of classifying, reclassifying, and 
delineating all lands of the public domain, the OENR shall submit the final 
inventory of lands after which, Congress, shall within a period of one hundred 
twenty (120) working days, determine by law the specific limit of forestlands and 
national parks, and endangered forests and watershed areas, marking clearly their 
boundaries on the ground. Thereafter, such forestlands and national parks shall be 
conserved and may not be diminished, except by law. 
SEC. 37. Coverage of Production Forest. -Production forests include: the 
residual dipterocarp forests; pine forests available for logging; rangelands for 
grazing; areas under industrial forest plantation management; areas for community 
forest program; integrated social forestry; and other forestlands for special uses, 
excluding the critical watersheds as identified by the OENR, in coordination with 
Concerned LGUs and NGAs, and subject to mandatory public consultations with 
concerned sectors. 
SEC. 38. Criteria for the Sub-classification of Public Lands for Timber 
Production, Agro-forestry, Grazing and Pasture and Other Purposes. -The 
sub-classification of public lands shall be guided by the following: 
a) Geology, geomorphology, soil and slope; 
b) Classified public lands below fifty percent (50%) slope may be sub-
classified for timber production, ago-forestry, grazing or pasture land 
activities provided that the use of such areas shall not result in soil 
degradation or any adverse ecological condition; 
c) Watershed may be subject to multiple uses provided that the area is 
utilized, managed and developed for the primary, purpose by which it has 
been established excluding critical watersheds as identified by the OENR, 
in coordination with concerned LGUs and NGAs, and subject to mandatory 
public hearings/consultations with concerned sectors; 
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d) All :public lands above fifty percent (50%) slope shall be sub-classified into 
appropriate protection or production land uses provided that such land use 
shall not engender significant adverse environmental effects; and 
e) The overall carrying capacity of classified public lands, including their 
existing and potential land uses shall serve as the basis for determining 
their sub-classification. 
SEC. 39. Critical Watershed Areas. -The DENR, in coordination with the OA, 
the LGUs, and other government agencies, including government-owned-and-
controlled corporations, and with mandatory public hearings/consultations, shall 
identify and delineate critical watershed areas that need to be protected, 
rehabilitated, enhanced, and/or withdrawn from uses that contribute to its further 
degradation. 
SEC. 40. Formulation and Implementation of Integrated Watershed 
Management Plans. -With the assistance of the OENR in collaboration with the 
NWRB, and upon mandatory consultations with the concerned stakeholders, the 
LGUs through their local land use committees shall prepare their watershed 
management plans which shall be integrated with their respective CLUPs. The 
formulation and integration of the plan shall be guided, among others, by the 


principle that the management and development of inland water resources shall be 
at the watershed level. 
In cases where the watershed areas transcend the boundaries of a 
particular municipality, an inter-LGU committee composed of representatives from 
local land use committees of the LGUs where the watershed area is located shall 
be formed. With the assistance of the DENR and upon mandatory consultations 
with the concerned stakeholders, the inter-LGU committee shall be tasked to 
formulate the watershed management plan for the said watershed area. 
The DENR and the concerned LGUs shall jointly implement the watershed 
management plan subject to regular consultations with and involvement of the 
community stakeholders in the implementation of the plan. 
Article Four 
Costal Zones 
SEC. 41. Classification of Coastal Zones. -All public lands in the coastal 
zones shall be SUb-classified as fishponds, mangrove, fisherfolk settlement and 
recreational tourism areas with the end in view of attaining bio-diversity 
conservation. 
SEC. 42. Guidelines for the Allocation and Utilization of Lands within the 
Coastal Zones. -The allocation and utilization of lands within the coastal zones 
shall he guided by the following: 
a) Areas vegetated with mangrove species shall be preserved for mangrove 
production and will not be converted to other uses; 
b) Areas that meet all accepted criteria on elevation, soil type, soil depth, 
topography supply for successful fishpond development and devoid of any 
mangrove stands, may be utilized for aquaculture purposes; 
c) Areas sub-classified as mangrove and still suitable for use as such, or due 
to environmental conditions need to be preserved as mangrove, but of 
which the land is devoid of mangrove stands will not be converted to other 
uses. The DENR shall ensure that these lands shall be reforested within a 
given period of time; 
d) Areas that are neither sub-classified as mangrove or fishpond may be 
devoted for recreational and/or tourism purposes, provided that such 
undertaking will not result in environmental degradation; 
e) Areas which are considered as traditional fishing grounds shall be used 
primarily for such purpose; 
f) Areas which are allocated for small infrastructures needed by fisherfolk 
shall be allowed; 
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g) Areas which form part of foreshore lands as defined in this Act including 
those that are under lease agreements/arrangements should undergo 
zonation and evaluation to determine their boundaries and actual sizes and 
corresponding uses; and, 
h) Areas which are classified for fisherfolk settlement and housing shall be 
allocated to: 


(1) traditional fishers or fisherfolk who are inhabitants of the, coastal 
communities; and 
(2) members of legitimate fisherfolk organizations and/or holders of 
stewardship, lease contracts, or titles to ancestral domains or any form of 
property rights 
arrangements, who 
participate in coastal resource 
management initiatives. 
SEC. 43. Coastal Zone Land Sub-classification by LGUs. -Sub-
classification of coastal zones to different uses, which shall exclude the protected 
areas as stated in this Act, by the LGUs shall be subject to prior consultation with 
local Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Management Councils (FARMCs) formed 
under R.A. No. 8550. 
SEC. 44. Disposition of Public Lands for Fishpond. - Upon the effectivity 
of this Act but subject to existing rights and the preceding section, no fishpond 
lease agreement (FLA) shall be issued for tidal swamps, mangroves and oilier 
swamps, marshes, ponds, foreshore lands, and coastal areas within public lands, 
including those presently declared available for fishpond development. The LUPA, 
in coordination with the DENR, the DA, the FARMCs and the LGUs shall set aside 
a portion of available public lands for fish propagation, fish sanctuary, 
conservation, ecological purposes and fisherfolk settlement areas. 
Fishponds covered by existing FLA, hut, are abandoned or not operating 
efficiently, and are found suitable for mangroves shall be allowed to be 
revegetated back as mangrove forest. 
Se;C. 45. Tourism and Recreation Zone. -The designation of areas for 
tourism. and resorts near to or over fishery areas or ports thereof, shall be with the 
consent of the concerned LGUs and FARMCs, and subject to the policies and 
guidelines set forth in this Act. 
Article Five 
Mineral Lands 
SEC. 46. Guidelines for the Utilization and Allocation of Land for Mining 
Purposes. -To ensure that the objectives of maintaining ecological balance and 
maximizing economic returns to mining operations are realized and consistent with 
R.A. No. 7942, the allocation and utilization of lands for mining purposes shall be 
guided by the following: 
a) Mining operations shall be undertaken with due consideration to the 
utilization, development, and protection of land and other physical 
resources; 
b) Small-scale mining shall be allowed provided that safeguards are instituted 
to prevent environmental degradation of the mining sites and adjacent 
areas; and, . 
c) Mineral reservations which had become non-operational for more, than five 
(5) years shaJl be placed under appropriate surface management by the 
DENR. 
SEC. 47. Reversion of Mineral Lands. -All exhausted mineral lands shall 
automatically revert to the category of forestlands, unless the DENR has otherwise 
classified such areas for other purposes. 


SEC. 48. Criteria for the Classification of Mineral Lands as Alienable and 
Disposable Lands. - Exhausted mineral lands may be classified as alienable and 
disposable lands only upon the satisfaction of all of the following conditions: 
a) The slope of the exhausted mineral lands shall not be above eighteen 
percent (18%); 
b) The rehabilitation of exhausted mineral lands can be accelerated if such 
areas are released for other purposes; 
c) The area can promote and sustain economic activities that would support 
development of settlements without incurring significant environmental 
problems. The area shall then be subject to an environmental impact 
assessment (EN), the findings of which shall serve as basis for making any 
recommendation on its classification; and 
d) The land is found to be environmentally-safe from natural hazards. 
Article Six 
Energy Resource Lands 
SEC. 49. Guidelines for the Utilization and Allocation of Lands for Energy 
Resource Exploration, Development, Production, Utilization and Distribution 
Purposes. ·To ensure that the objectives of maintaining ecological balance and 
maximizing the harnessing of power potential from indigenous energy resources in 
the most economical and environmentally-acceptable means are realized, the 
allocation and utilization of lands for said purposes shall be guided' by the 
following, consistent with the existing laws and DOE regulations on energy 
resources; 
a) Indigenous energy resource exploration and development for the purpose 
of a National Energy Resource Inventory and Data Base as well as Energy 
Resource Block Map shall be allowed subject to the implementation of 
complementary watershed management plans; 
b) Indigenous 
energy 
resource 
exploration, 
development, 
production, 
utilization and distribution shall be subject to the appropriate requirements 
and process of the Philippine EIS System. Each project shall secure an 
Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) prior to project implementation 
to ensure adequate and appropriate environmental management measures 
and optimum methods for resource access and recovery utilized. 
c) Energy reservations or portions thereof which have been established to he 
no'n-economically viable to operate or are no longer used for energy 
purposes shall be released to give way to other land uses subject to 
existing laws covering energy reservations. 
SEC. 50. Reversion of Energy Resource Lands. ·AII exhausted indigenous 
energy resource lands not covered by proclamations shall automatically revert to 
the category of forestlands or agricultural lands, whichever is appropriate, unless 
the DEW and/or the DAR respectively classify such areas for other purposes. 
SEC. 51. Energy Resource Exploration as a Temporary Land Use. • 
Premature conversion of agricultural lands as defined in this Act shall exclude use 
of the land for energy resource exploration, which is a temporary use of the land, it 


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being a necessary activity for the confirmation of the energy resource: Provided, 
however, That conversion of the land to a permanent land use shall proceed once 
the energy resource is confirmed for production and prior to commercial 
development: Provided, further, That the LUPA shall set a time limit on such 
exploration as a temporary land use, taking into account the different factors 
affecting exploration. 
Article Seven 
Settlements Development 
SEC. 52. Town, City, and Settlements Development. -The development 
of town, city and settlements through the zoning ordinances (ZOs) of cities and 
municipalities shall be guided by urban zoning standards designed to maximize 
existing urban spaces and reasonably restrain urban expansion to be formulated 
by the LUPA and included in guidelines and standards to be issued under 
Sections 5 and 9 hereof. 
SEC. 53. Settlements with Geo-hazard Areas. -Settlements within gee-
hazard areas may be allowed provided that mitigating and/or protective measures 
are adopted to address the potential danger or risk to lives and properly within 
such settlements, In coordination with the concerned agencies of the government, 
the LUPA'shall provide assistance to concerned LGUs and settlers in instituting 
safely and corrective measures to address the potential danger or risk. 
SEC. 54. Protection of Ecological Harmony. -To ensure the ecological 
harmony of towns, cities, and settlements, certain projects which will alter the 
present use of a zoned area shall be issued a building permit, business permit, 
and/or development permit, as the case may be. The identification of these 
projects shall be done in coordination with the concerned LGUs. 
SEC. 55. Designation of Waste Disposal Site. -Each city or municipality 
shall identify, designate and allocate land within their territorial jurisdiction to serve 
as waste disposal site within one (1) year from the effectivity of this Act. The 
LGUs, in coordination with the DENR and/or competent authority, shall identify 
solid waste disposal sites in order to fast track the conduct of environmental 
impact assessment (HA) study and to facilitate processing of the environmental 
compliance certificate (ECC). This site or area shall be identified in the 
city's/municipality's CLUP and ZOo For this purpose, cities and municipalities shall 
establish their solid waste management program. Likewise, as provided for under 
Section 33 of RA No. 7160, cities and municipalities may, through appropriate 
ordinances, bind themselves towards the establishment of a common solid waste 
management program. Within ninety (90) days from the effectivity of this Act, the 
DENR, in coordination with concerned agencies, shall promulgate the necessary 
guidelines and standards for the formulation and establishment of solid waste 
management program by cities and municipalities, and shall submit the same to 
the LUPA for review and approval. 
SEC. 56. Designation of Socialized Housing Sites in Urban and 
Urbanizing Areas. - Each city or municipality in urban and urbanizing areas shall 
identify, designate and allocate land within their territorial jurisdiction to ensure the 
availability of adequate land to meet the shelter needs of poor residents in their 
respective city or municipality or 10 he used as sites for socialized housing 
pursuant to Article IV of UDHA. 
Within ninety (90) days from the effectivity of this Act, the LUPA, in 
coordination with the concerned agencies, and pursuant to existing laws, rules and 


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regulation~, shall promulgate the necessary guidelines for the identification and 
designation of socialized housing sites. All cities and municipalities in urban and 
urbanizing areas shall identify and designate their socialized housing sites within 
six (6) months from the effectivity of this Act and must submit the list of these sites 
and their respective hectarage to the HUDCC. 
SEC. 57. Zonification of Identified Sites for Socialized Housing. -These 
socialized housing sites shall be identified and designated as socialized housing 
zones in the city's/municipality's CLUP and shall be established through 
appropriate and approved zoning ordinances. The current zoning ordinances of 
the LGUs shall be reviewed and revised to include these socialized housing 
zones. These sites shall be used exclusively for housing that qualifies as 
socialized housing under the UDHA. 
SEC. 58. Valuation of Lands for Socialized Housing. -Equitable land 
valuation guidelines for socialized housing shall be set by the Department of 
Finance on the basis of the market value reflected in the zonal valuation, or in its 
absence, on the latest real property tax declaration. For sites already occupied by 
qualified beneficiaries under the UDHA and sites identified as Socialized Housing 
Zones as defined in this Act, the Department of Finance shall factor into the 
valuation, the blighted status of the land as certified by the LGUs or the National 
Housing Authority. 
SEC. 59. Urban Forest or Green Space. -Each city or highly urbanizing 
municipality shall identify, designate, and allocate lands owned by the city or 
municipality as urban forest or green space, based on the guidelines and 
standards to be issued by the DENR and approved by the LUPA. 
Article Eight 
Industrial Development Areas 
SEC. 
60. 
Designation of Industrial Areas. 
-The identification and 
establishment of industrial development areas shall conform with the provisions of 
R.A. No. 7916, otherwise known as the Philippine Economic Zone Authority 
(PEZA) Law, R.A. No, 7279, or the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA), 
and Section 33 hereof, taking into consideration the following: 
a) Identified network of areas for agricultural development and protected 
agricultural areas pursuant to Section 33 hereof; 
b) National policies on the regional dispersal of industries and agri-based 
industrial development; 
c) Identified growth areas and corridors in the National Development Plan; 
d) National Integrated Protection Area Systems and other protected areas; 
e) National Urban Development Framework; 
f) Identified Socialized Housing Zones; 
g) National Settlements Development Plan; and, 
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The designated industrial development areas shall become an integral part of 
the land use plan and zoning ordinance of the city or municipality where these 
areas are located. 
Article Nine 
Tourism Development Areas 
SEC. 
61. 
Designation of Tourism 
Development Areas. 
·The 
identification, selection and development of tourism development areas shall be 
done in consultation and coordination with the concerned LGUs, national 
government agencies, the private sector, and the affected communities. 
Consistent with Sections 33 and 34 hereof,' these areas shall likewise include 
those covered by legislation and executive issuances which designate specific 
sites as tourist spots and tourist zones, as well as those identified in the national 
and regional tourism master plans. 
Historical and Cultural Heritage Sites shall be included in these areas so as 
to promote their protection, preservation and development for tourism purposes 
and rel~ted activities. Designated areas for tourism development shall become 
part of the CLUPs and 20s of the cities or municipalities where these are located. 
Article Ten 
Infrastructure Development 
SEC. 62. Allocation and Use of Land for Infrastructure Development .• 
Land, whether public or private, shall be allocated and utilized for priority 
infrastructure projects that are supportive of national or local development 
objectives. The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), in 
consultation with the Concerned NGAs, LGUs and the private sector shall identify 
and periodically review, update and/or revise the list of priority infrastructure 
projects. In determining and evaluating the list of priority infrastructure projects, 
consideration shall he given to those that: 
a) Respond to immediate and vital reqUirements of the national 
economy with priority on food security and self-sufficiency concerns; 
b) Upgrade existing facilities to international standards; 
c) Address the need for sustainable settlements development; and, 
d) Help mitigate the destructive effects of natural disaster-causing 
phenomena or those that shall serve as alternatives to existing 
infrastructures fond in natural hazard-prone areas. 
Provided, that the provision and implementation of infrastructure support 
shall be made compatible with existing' environmental conditions and the physical, 
whether natural or man-made, and cultural character of the area. Mandatory public 
hearings/consultations shall be held prior to the conduct of all infrastructure 
projects that will necessarily involve dislocation or displacement of people living in 
the area: Provided, further, That the concemed NGA that will implement the 
infrastructure projects in areas occupied by the urban poor and in identified 
socialized housing zones shall follow the rules on mandatory consultation as 
provided for in RA 7160, as well as the rules on just and humane demolitions or 
eviction under Section 20 of UDHA and said NGA shall submit a report complying 
with the aforementioned provisions to the concemed LGU prior to project 
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SEC.63. Infrastructure Projects within Environmentally-Critical Areas. 
- Construction of priority infrastructure projects within protected, hazard-prone, or 
environmentally-critical areas shall be allowed provided that mitigating and/or 
preventive measures are adopted to address the potential adverse economic, 
socio-cultural and measures, are adopted to address the potential adverse 
economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts that will emanate from these 
infrastructure projects subject to the findings and recommendations of a feasibility 
study and an environmental impact assessment in accordance with p.o. Nos. 
1586 and 4846. 
Existing infrastructures found to be improperly located as well as those 
posing threats to the environmental integrity of historic, archeologic, or 
scientifically significant areas, or impinging on critical ecosystems may be 
terminated immediately, or gradually phased out and relocated, or maintained up 
to their life span, subject however to mitigating measures: Provided, That the 
concerned NGA that will implement the Infrastructure projects in socialized 
housing zones are mandated to follow the rules on mandatory consultation as 
provided for in R.A. No. 7160, as well as the rules on just and humane demolitions 
or eviction under Section 20 of UD":Provided, further, That said NGA shall submit 
a report complying with the aforementioned provisions to the concerned LGU prior 
to project implementation. 
The DPWH, DOE, DOTC, in coordination with the concerned NGA, the 
LGUs and the private sector shall identify and assess all major infrastructure 
projects in environmentally-critical areas and submit their recommendations to the 
LLPA within six (6) months from the effectivity of this Act. 
Article Eleven 
Training, Education, and Value Formation 
SEC. 64. Mandatory Curriculum. - In order to create a well informed, 
responsiv(l and committed citizenry who value the protection, conservation and 
development of the country's limited land and other physical resources, the State 
shall mandate the inclusion of sustainable land use education, or any subject 
related' thereto in the curricula of primary, secondary and tertiary education. 
SEC. 65. Information and Education Campaign. -The LUPA shall 
coordinate a nationwide education information campaign in land use and physical 
planning to be implemented by local and national government agencies. The DILG 
and concerned agencies shall formulaic and implement a land use management 
capability-building program for national and local government officials, community 
leaders, NGOs, pas, religious sector, and the general pUblic. 
CHAPTER V 
INCENTIVES, SANCTIONS, AND PENALTIES 
Article One 
Incentives and Awards 
SEC. 66. Formulation of a System of Incentives and Awards. -The LUPA 
shall come out with a system of incentives and awards to LGUs that regularly 
update their CLUPs/ZOs within the prescribed period as follows: 
a) Provinces, highly urbanized cities, and independent component cities once 
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b) and Component cities and municipalities -once every five (5) years or less; 
SEC. 67. Priority in Giving Technical Assistance to LGUs. -In providing 
technical assistance and other forms of support related to land use management 
and implementation of development plans, national government agencies (NGAs) 
shall give priority to cities and municipalities with approved CLUPs and ZOs. 
SEC.58. Incentives for Voluntary Transfer. -Subject to existing laws and 
ordinances, the LUPA, in coordination with the Board of Investments, shall provide 
for incentiyes to affected industries that, within a specified period, would voluntarily 
transfer tq identified Industrial Development Areas. 
Article Two 
Sanctions and Penalties 
SEC. 
69. 
Fine 
on Non-Completion 
and Non-Commencement of 
Development of Agricultural Lands with Approved Order of Conversion. -Any 
landowner and/or his/her deSignated developer or duly authorized representative 
who fails to commence and/or complete the development of agricultural lands with 
approved order of conversation shall be penalized, jointly or severally, with any of 
the following fines based on the zonal value of the land at the time the fine is 
imposed: 
a) On failure to commence within one year from the date of conversion order: 
(1) Six percent (6%) of the zonal value of the subject land for the first 
three (3) hectares; 
(2) Fifteen percent (15%) of the zonal value of the subject land for the 
next three (3) hectares; and 
(3) Thirty percent (30%) of the zonal value of the subject land for the 
remaining area. 
Provided, that in such case, the order of conversion shall be deemed 
revoked automatically and the land shall revert back to its original agricultural use 
aid shall be covered by the DAR through compulsory acquisition for distribution to 
qualified beneficiaries. 
b) On failure to complete fifty percent (50%) of the approved conversion plan 
within a specified time frame, the DAR shall impose a tine equivalent to fifty 
percent (50%) of the zonal value of the subject land and shall automatically 
issue an order revoking the conversion plan on the undeveloped portion 
which shall automatically revert to its original use as agricultural land. The 
same shall be covered, under the CARP and processed for land distribution 
as soon as possible. 
SEC. 70. Authority to Impose Fine. -The DAR shall impose the penalty 
imposed under the preceding section. 
SEC. 71. Withdrawal of Local Development Permits and/or Licenses. -
Upon receipt of notice from the DAR, the concerned agencies, city or municipality 
shall withdraw and/or revoke 'my development permit and/or oilier licenses that 
may be necessary to develop the agricultural land subject of conversion. 
SEC. 72. Utilization of Fines. -The fines collected under Section 70 hereof 
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provisions of R.A. Act No. 6657, otherwise known as the Comprehensive Agrarian 
Reform Law. 
SEC. 73. Failure to Formulate, Enforce, and/or Implement the CLUPs and 
ZOs.-Consistent with due process, the LUPA in coordination with the DILG shall 
investigate, review and recommend the filing of charges against local chief 
executives and other local officials and employees responsible for the formulation, 
enforcement, and/or implementation of the CLUPs in case of any of the following: 
a) Failure to implement and enforce the CLUP/ZO due 10 negligence of duty; 
b) Failure to 
provide 
appropriate 
budgetary 
allocation 
to 
effect 
its 
implementation; 
c) Failure to complete the preparation of the CLUE' despite the availability of 
funds, resources, and support by the sanggunian concerned; and, 
d) Failure of the CLUPs/ZOs to conform to the prescribed national guidelines 
and standards as provided for in Section 5 hereof and thereafter, with 
NPFP RS stated in Section 9 hereof; 
Any public official or employee, regardless of whether or not elected or 
appointed or holding office or employment in a casual, temporary, holdover, 
permanent or regular capacity, found to be responsible to any of the foregoing 
acts, after due notice and hearing by the appropriate body or agency, shall be 
punished with forfeiture of salaries and allowances and suspension from: 
a) Six (6) to nine (9) months, in case of non-implementation of the 
CLUP; or 
b) Three (3) to six (6) months, in case of non-completion of the CLUP. 
SEC. 74. Premature or I/Iegal Conversion. -Paragraph 2, Section 11 of 
R.A. No. 8435, is hereby amended and shall read as follows: 
"Any person found guilty of premature or illegal 
conversion as defined in this Act shall be penalized 
with imprisonment of seven (7) to twelve (12) years, or 
a fine equivalent to fifty percent (50%) of the market 
value of the subject land, or both, at the discretion of 
the court and accessory penalty of forfeiture of the land 
and any improvement thereon: Provided, that if the 
offender is a juridical person, the penalty shall he 
imposed on the responsible officers thereof." 
In addition, the DAR may impose the following penalties, after determining, 
in an administrative proceeding, that violation of this Act has been committed: 
a) Cancellation or withdrawal of the authorization for land use conversion; and, 
b) Blacklisting or automatic disapproval of pending or subsequent conversion 
applications that they may file with the DAR. 
SEC. 75. Person/s Abetting I/Iegal Conversion. -Any person initiating, 
causing, inducing, or abetting illegal conversion shall, upon conviction, be 
penalized with imprisonment of seven (7) to twelve (12) years and a fine of not 
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the court: Provided, That if the offender is a public official or employee, the penalty 
shall, in addition thereto, includes perpetual disqualification and forfeiture of all 
his/her benefits and entitlements accruing to his/her public position. 
SEC. 76. Imposition of Penalty for Reclassification of Protected 
Agricultutal Lands. 
Any person initiating, causing, inducing, or abetting the 
reclassification of protected agricultural areas as defined in Section 33 hereof into 
non-agr.icultural uses shall be penalized with imprisonment of seven (7) to twelve 
(12) years and a fine of not less than one hundred thousand pesos (POO,OOO.OO) 
pesos, or both, at the discretion of the court: Provided, That if the offender is a 
public official or employee, the penalty shall, in addition thereto, include perpetual 
disqualification and forfeiture of all his/her benefits and entitlements accruing to 
his/her public position; Provided, further, That if the offender is a juridical person, 
the penalty shall be imposed on the responsible officers thereof. 
CHAPTER VI 
MISCELLANEOUS, TRANSITORY AND FINAL PROVISIONS 
Article One 
Mandatory Review 
SEC. 77. Mandatory Review Every Seven (7) Years. ·Congress shall 
undertake a mandatory review of this Act at least once every seven (7) years from 
the date of effectivity, or as often as it may deem necessary to ensure that land 
use policies and guidelines remain responsive to changing circumstances. For this 
purpose, Congress may call on the LUPA to undertake the necessary researches, 
consultations and public hearings. 
Article Two 
Transitory Provisions 
SEC. 78. Convening of the LUPA. -Within thirty (30) days after the 
effectivity of this Act, the Executive Secretary as Chairman shall convene the 
LUPA. The Deputy Director General for Land Use of NEDA and the Chief 
Executive Officer of the HLURB shall sit temporarily as ex-officio members of the 
LUPA Executive Board until such time that a regular Administrator shall have been 
appointed by the President. 
SEC. 79. Preparation of Implementing Rules and Regulations and 
Other Immediate Tasks.· Within one hundred twenty (120) days from the 
effectivity of this Act, the LUPA, in coordination with the Senate and House 
Committees on Natural Resources, Agriculture, Agrarian Reform, Housing and 
Urban 
Development, 
Rural 
Development, 
National 
Cultural 
Communities, 
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Appropriations and Ways and Means, shall undertake the preparation of the 
implementing rules and regulations of this Act with mandatory consultations with 
social development NGOs and POs and the private sector. 
Within the same period, the LUPA shall also review existing rules and 
regulations on land use, and bases, therefrom, revise such rules and regulations, 
or cause concerned agencies to revise them for the efficient and effective 
implementation of the provisions of this Act. All concerned national government 
agencies and bodies shall inform the LUPA of the status of the implementation of 
such rules and regulations. 
The LUPA shall likewise undertake the organization of its units and create 
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Within one (1) year from the effectivity of this Act, the LUA shall review and 
revise, if appropriate, all existing national planning guidelines and standards to 
facilitate the exercise of land use planning and zoning functions of local 
government units. 
All existing rules and regulations shall he in force and effect unless revoked 
by the LUPA or other competent authorities. 
SEC. 80. Effectivity of the Creation of LUPA. -Until such time that the 
LUPA shall have been organized and fully operational, the NLUC, HLURB, and 
other agencies performing functions related to land use shall continue exercising 
such powers and functions and their personnel shall receive the same salary, 
emoluments and privileges. Hiring, separation, replacement and appointment of 
personnel shall be in accordance with existing Civil Service rules and regulations: 
Provided, however, That in filling up the personnel requirements of the LUPA, 
preferential consideration shall be given to eXisting officers and employees of the 
NLUC, HLURB and the other agencies referred to above, who will be displaced: 
Provided, further, That they possess the appropriate and necessary skills and 
eligibility and meet the qualification standards for the positions. 
SEC. 81. Appropriations. -The amount necessary to carry out the 
provisions of this Act shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the 
year folioiNing its enactment into law and thereafter. 
In case such amount is insufficient, the LUPA may request for 
augmentation of funds from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). 
Thereafter, the LUPA shall be included in the General Appropriations for the next 
year. 
Congress shall appropriate an amount to the DENR necessary for it to 
conduct the classification and demarcation activities needed in the final inventory 
of all lands as provided herein. 
SEC. 82. Review of Existing Land Use Plans. -Provinces, cities and 
municipalities with existing land use plans shall review, revise, reconcile and 
harmonize the same with the guidelines and standards set forth under this Act. 
Article Three 
Final Provisions 
SEC. 83. Repealing Clause.- Section 9 of Republic Act No. 8435 and all 
other laws and administrative issuances are hereby modified by Section 33 hereof 
All other general and special laws, acts, decrees, executive orders, proclamations, 
administrative rules and regulations, or part thereof, inconsistent with the 
provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly. 
SEC. 84. Non-Impairment Clause. - Nothing in this Act shall be construed 
as to diminish, impair, or repeal rights recognized, granted, or available to 
marginalized or basic sectors under existing laws including but not limited to R.A. 
Nos. 7279, 6657, 8371 ,and 8550. 
SEC.85. Separability Clause. -If for any reason any section or provision of 
this Act, or any portion thereof, or the application of such section, provision or 
portion to any person, group or circumstances is declared invalid or 
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provIsion or portion thereof to other persons, groups or circumstances shall 
continue to be in full force and effect. 
SEC. 86. Effectivity. -This Act shall lake effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved,