Homestead Free Patent Sales Patent Special Patent Free Patent for Emancipation CARP

Patent Residential Patent

Scope Under the Under the While the Public Alienable and Under RA Under PD 27, All agricultural
Public Land Act, Public Land Act, Land Act allows disposable 10023, it covers coverage is lands, whether
a homestead a free patent for the issuance lands formerly lands zoned as mandatory for public or
patent application only of Sales covered by a residential, as all rice and corn private, except
application only covers ​public Patents over reservation or well as lands under tenanted rice
covers ​public agricultural public lands of the residential lands sharecrop and and corn lands
agricultural lands​ classified agricultural public domain proclaimed as leasehold under PD 27.
lands​ classified as ​alienable lands suitable townsite tenancy Landholdings of
as ​alienable and ​disposable. for residential, reservations agreements, landowners with
and ​disposable. commercial, or whether a total area of 5
industrial classified as hectares and
purposes, RA landed estate or below shall not
730 is more not. However, be covered for
limited as it can the landowner acquisition and
only be availed has a right of distribution.
of by applicants retention over
of patents over not more than 7
public hectares of his
agricultural land.
lands for
residential
purposes with
an area less
than 1000 sq.m.

Who May • Any citizen of ↠Natural-born Sale Patent with Any Filipino Filipino citizen Tenant-farmers Lands shall be
Apply the Philippines Filipino citizens bidding citizen of legal of private distributed to
• over the age ↠Who own not Filipino citizen age, or any Actual occupant agricultural landless
of 18 years or more than 12 Legal age government of the land, by lands primarily residents of the
the head of a hectares corporation, herself/himself devoted to rice same
family ↠Who have Without bidding province, or through and corn, under barangay, or in
• Does not own continuously Filipino citizen municipality or another sharerop and the absence
more than 12 occupied (or Legal age other branches/ leasehold thereof,
hectares of land their Does not own a subdivisions of May be a minor, tenancy. landless
 in the predecessors-in home lot in the the government as long as The tenant will residents of the
Philippines or -interest have municipality represented by be deemed same
has not had the continuously where he legal guardian owner of a municipality in
benefit of any occupied) the resides BUT portion the following
gratuitous land for 30 has constructed constituting a order of priority:
allotment of years prior to his house, in family-size farm (a) agricultural
more than 12 the Public Land good faith,and of 5 hectares if lessees and
hectares of land Act (latest date has actually not irrigated or share tenants;
• Cultivated and is March 28, lived on the 3 hectares if (b) regular
improved at 1990) land over which irrigated farmworkers;
least 1/5 of the ↠Paid real taxes the patent was (c) seasonal
land on the said land applied for farmworkers;
continuously (d) other
since the farmworkers;
approval of the (e) actual tillers
application or occupants of
• Resided for at public lands;
least 1 year in (f) collectives or
the municipality cooperatives of
in which the the above
land is located, beneficiaries;
or in a and (g) others
municipality in directly working
which the land on the land.
is located, or in
a municipality
adjacent to the
same

Applicable Public Land Act The Public Land Public Land Act By special law RA 10023 PD 27 Comprehensive
Law (Act 2874) Act, also known RA 730 or Executive PD 1529, Secs. Agrarian
as Order of the 105 and 104 Reform Law
Commonwealth President EO 228 (RA 6657)
Act 141, as
amended by
Republic Act
6940