Lands classified as residential, commercial, or industrial by the housing and Land Use Regulatory

Board (HLURB) prior to the effectivity of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) are not
subject to agrarian reform.

What is the new name of HLURB according to a recent law?

Ans. - Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development

The authority or jurisdiction to issue, recall or cancel Certificates of Land Transfer or Certificates of
Land Ownership Awards (CLOAs) falls within the DAR Secretary's administrative jurisdiction as
implementor of agrarian reform laws.

Ans. – True

The burdensome procedures on "Twin-Expropriation Rule" or "Double-Expropriation Rule" are as

follows:

1st - If a Local Government Unit (LGU) expropriates a private agricultural land for actual, direct, and
exclusive purposes, the DAR should first subject it to CARP Coverage. The National Government
through the DAR acquires the land;

2nd - By way of expropriation, the land should first be acquired by the National Government
through the DAR, the latter fully paying just compensation to the landowner in order to acquire titles
of the land (First Expropriation Rule);

3rd - Thereafter the DAR will distribute the land to the agrarian reform beneficiaries;

4th - After distribution, the land will be expropriated again by the Local Government Unit (LGU)
which will pay the agrarian reform beneficiaries the just compensation (Second Expropriation Rule)

Are lands actually, directly, and exclusively used and found to be necessary for seeds and seedling
research and pilot production center, which shifted operation to another economic pursuit, covered
by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law? (Mali ang Yes)

Ans. - No

Private lands actually, directly, and exclusively used for prawns and fishponds – no
Lands actually, directly, and exclusively used and found to be necessary for research and
quarantine centers – no
Other lands of the public domain suitable for agriculture – yes
All lands of the public domain with 18% slope or over as permanent forests or forest reserves
regardless of the condition of vegetative cover, occupancy, or use of any kind – no
All other lands owned by the Government devoted to or suitable for agriculture – yes
Private lands with a total area of five (5) hectares and below – no
Lands cultivated by farmers within a forest reserve - coverage is stayed until a legislative
enactment to that effect

Lands not devoted to agricultural activity v – no

All public and private agricultural lands – yes
Ancestral lands – No
All alienable and disposable lands of the public domain devoted to or suitable for agriculture –
yes
Lands devoted to livestock and poultry raising – no

Which of the following is a significant provision on Priorities?

Ans. - In no case should the Agrarian Reform Beneficiary's sex, economic, religious, social, cultural,
and political attributes adversely affect the distribution of lands.

Incorporation Test of Nationality - the nationality of a corporation is that of a state of incorporation,

regardless of the nationality of its shareholders

Public Domain - lands to which the government has proprietary rights

Ancestral lands -
lands of the public domain that have been in open, actual, exclusive, and occupation and cultivation
by members of the Indigenous Cultural Communities by themselves or through their ancestors,
under a claim of ownership since time immemorial according to their customs and traditions

Agri-business – sum total of all operations

Commercial farms - private agricultural lands devoted to saltbeds, fruit farms, orchards, vegetable,
and cut-flower farms, and cacao, coffee, and rubber plantations

What are the Modes of Acquisition of Commercial Farms? (Select all that apply.)

Ans. – DPS, VOS, CA

Section 6-A on "Exception to Retention Limits" is a new provision engrafted into R.A. No. 6657 by
R.A. No. 9700 which took effect on 1 July 2009.

Ans. – False, Should be RA 7900

A comprehensive inventory system in consonance with the national land use plan shall be instituted
by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), in accordance with the Revised Penal Code, for the
purpose of properly identifying and classifying farmlands within one (1) year from the effectivity of
CARL, without prejudice to the implementation of the land acquisition and distribution.

Ans. – False, in acc with LGCode

In the schedule of Priorities in Land Acquisition and Distribution, to which phase belongs all lands
foreclosed by government financial institutions such as DBP, GSIS, and SSS?

Ans. – Phase One

Which of the following statements is true about ancestral lands?

Ans. -
lands of the public domain that have been in open, actual, exclusive, and occupation and cultivation
by members of the Indigenous Cultural Communities by themselves or through their ancestors,
under a claim of ownership since time immemorial according to their customs and traditions.

Certificate of title issued under the __________________________ is binding against the whole
world and it is indefeasible, incontestable, conclusive and oncontrovertible, free from all liens,
charges, and encumbrances.

Ans. – Torrens

Which of the following is true about the Right of Retention?

Ans. - The landowner should exercise his right of retention within sixty (60) days from receipt of the
Notice of Coverage (NOC) or date of publication of NOC.

Acquired commercial farms are distributed to qualified beneficiaries in accordance with the priority
provided in _____________________ .

Ans - Section 22 of R.A. 6657