SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS ) RECENED

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )

First Regular Session ) pate. 08 AUG 2016
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Introduced by Representative Maximo B. Rodliguez, Jf
House Bill No, 2572 REGISTRATION UNIT
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EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill was originally introduced as House Bill No. 3153 duting the 14”
Congress where it was approved by the House of Representatives and transmitted to
the Senate. It was again re-filed during the 15” Congress as House Bill No. 604
where it was again approved by the Committee on National Cultural Communities
and substituted by House Bill No, 3747, approved on 2™ reading, approved on 3”
reading and was transmitted to the Senate where it was not acted upon. It was again
re-filed during the 16” Congress where it was approved by the Committee.

R.A. 8371, otherwise known as the Indigenous People Rights Act of 1997
(IPRA) was a landmark legislation intended to address the concems of the cultural
communities and indigenous people throughout the country,

While there are some constitutional and legal questions against certain
provisions of said law, the IPRA remains in effect. Under Section 64 of IPRA, the
National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) is mandated to take appropriate
actions to recover legal domains which were illegally acquired.

The NCIP Is given two (2) years to perform such functions as provided for

under Section 64 but the prescribed period has already expired on 22 November
1999.

This bill seeks to remedy this technical flaw in the law. Hence, it is hereby

proposed that the NCIP be granted a new twenty (20) year period to perform the
same task as provided under Sec. 64 of the indigenous People Rights Act.

HM.

MAXIMO 'B, RODRIGUEZ, JR.

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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Maximo 8, Rodriguez, Jr.
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House BillNo,_2972

AN ACT
EXTENDING THE PERIOD FOR INDIGENOUS CULTURAL
COMMUNITIES/INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO EXERCISE THE OPTION TO
SECURE TITLE TO THEIR ANCESTRAL LANDS UNDER LAND REGISTRATION
ACT 496 AND GRANTING A NEW FIVE (5)-YEAR PERIOD TO THE NATIONAL
COMMISSION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (NCIP) TO TAKE APPROPRIATE
LEGAL ACTION FOR THE CANCELLATION OF OFFICIALLY DOCUMENTED
TITLES WHICH WERE ILLEGALLY ACQUIRED, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE
SECTIONS 12 AND 64 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8371, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS
“THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS ACT OF 1997"

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The option to secure a Cerificate of Title under Commonwealth Act
141, as amended, or the Land Registration Act 496 as provided for under Section 12
of Republic Act No. 8371 is hereby extended for another twenty (20) years effective
upon the expiration of the first period.

‘SEC. 2. The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) is hereby granted
a new five (5}year period within which to take appropriate legal action for the
cancellation of officially documented titles which were acquired illegally, as provided
for under Section 64 of Republic Act No, 8371.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in any
newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,