American Period Philippine Bill of 1902 Land Registration Act of 1902 (Act No.

496) Public Land Act of 1903 Tenancy Act of 1933 Sets ceilings on the hectarage that private individuals and corporations may acquire All land titles of the Filipinos must be registered upon the implementation of the Torrens System. Introduced the homestead system (public lands were distributed) Regulated relationship between landowners and tenants of rice and sugarcane lands.

Commonwealth Period Commonwealth Act No. 178 Certain controls in the landlord-tenant relationships National Rice and Corn Corporation Established price of rice and corn Commonwealth Act No. 461 Reasons for dismissal of tenants approval of tenancy division Rural Program Administration Purchase and lease of haciendas and their lease to the tenants Commonwealth Act No. 441 Created the National Settlement Administration Japanese Occupation The Hukbalahap controlled Central Luzon o Those who supported the Japanese lost their lands to peasants o Those who supported the Huks earned fixed rentals Philippine Republic President Manuel Roxas Republic Act No. 34 Regulated share-tenancy contracts with the 70-30 sharing arrangements Republic Act No. 55 More effective safeguard against arbitrary ejectment of tenants President Elpidio Quirino Executive Order No. 355 Replaced the National Land Settlement Administration with Land Settlement Devt Corp. President Ramon Magsaysay Republic Act No. 1160 Abolished LASEDECO; established the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Admin. Republic Act No. 1999 Provided security of tenure of tenants. Republic Act No. 1400 Created the Land Tenure Administration Republic Act No. 821 Creation of Agricultural Credit Cooperative Financing Administration President Diosdado Macapagal Republic Act No. 3844 Abolished President Ramon Magsaysay the KASAMA system. President Ferdinand Marcos Republic Act No. 6839 & Created the Department of Agrarian Reform and the Agrarian Reform Special Account Fund Republic Act No. 6390 Presidential Decree No. 2 Declared country under land reform program Presidential Decree No. 27 Restricted land reform scope to rice and corn lands President Corazon Aquino Republic Act No. 6657 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) Distributed land among farmers President Fidel V. Ramos Republic Act No. 7881 Exempted fish ponds and prawns from CARP Republic Act No. 7905 Strengthened implementation of CARP Republic Act No. 8435 Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act- aims to strengthen agriculture and fishery Republic Act No. 8532 Agrarian Reform Fund Bill additional 50B fir CARP and extension of 10 years President Joseph Estrada Executive Order No. 151 Farmers Trust Fund MAGKASAKA (Magkabalikat Para sa Kaunlarang Agraryo) President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Executive Order No. 364 Widen the areas of operation of the Department of Land Reform Executive Order No. 456 Department of Land Reform to Department of Agrarian Reform Land Tenure Improvement Land distribution and leasehold KALAHI ARZONE KALAHI Agrarian Zone - Agrarian Reform Communities