Section 1 -CARL of 1998
- Applies to agricultural lands
- Valid exercise of police power
Section 2 - Principles and Policies
Objective – breakup agriculutural lands transform to econimic
sized farms to be owned by beneficiaries
Economic size- permits efficient use of labor and capital
resoources of the farm
Section 4 - SCOPE
- all public and private agricultural lands
exceptions: landholdings of land owners with 5 hectares and
below shall not be covered for acquisition and distribution to
qualified farmers
Section 16 -Compulsory Acquisition process
a. identification by DAR of the land, landowner and beneficiaries
b. notice by DAR to the landowner of the Compulsary Acquisition
and the price
- by personal notice or registered mail
- by posting in a conspicuous place
c. reply of the landowner about Acceptance or Rejection
- if he accepts, land bank will pay him after 30 days
- if he rejects, DAR will determine just compensation
- if he disagrees, he can proceed to regular court for
determination of just compensation
d. taking of possession of the land by DAR
- by payment
- by absence of reply
e. request by DAR to the RoD to issue TCT to RP
f. distribution of land to beneficiaries
2 Notices for validity of implementation
1. notice of acquisition -section 16 CARL
2. notice of coverage -DAR order 12, series 1989
When ownership is transferred to state?
- Only upon full payment
Section 17 -Just Compensation
- Full and fair equivalent of the property taken from its
owner
- Prompt payment or immediate deposit and release of
just compensation
 Value at the time of taking
 If there is undue delay, at the time of full payment of
just compensation
Factors of Valuation of Land: basis
a. CNI – capitalized net income, land use and productivity
b. CS – Comparable Sales, 70% of the BIR zonal value
c. MV – Market Value, tax declaration
DARAB
Summary administrative proceeding to determin if land bank is
correct in land valuation computation
PARAD – when initial land valuation is less than 10M
RARAD – when initial land valution is 10M to 50M
DARAB – when initial land valuation is above 50M
- If non-availability, inhibition, disqualification may
proceed to next adjudicator
Section 22 -Qualified beneficiaries
Eligiblility – person is landless resident of same
barangay/municipality
a. Agricultural lessees
b. regular farmworkers
c. season farmworkers
d. other farmworkers
e. actual tillers
f. cooperatives of above beneficiares
g. other directly working on the land
Qualificatoins
a. Filipino Citizen
b. Resident
c. 15 years old at the time of identificat ion
d. willing, able to cultivate and make land productive
Section 24 -Award to Beneficiaries Section 65 - Conversion of lands

- Only upon full payment of just compensation to land Conversion - changing the current use of a agricultural land to
owner can be transferred to beneficiaries some other use

Dar Issues CLOA - Automatically changes its use

- Issues CLOA only upon full payment of AMORTIZATION Reclassification – specfying how agricultural lands shall be utilized
by the FARMER-BENEFICIARY for non-agricultural uses
- CLOA – basis for issuance in his name( beneficiary) TCT
- CLOA indefeasible after 1 year from its registration - Not automatically changes its use

Cancellation of CLOA Scope of DAR’s Conversion authority

- Abandonment of land
- Neglect or misuse
- Failure to pay 3 annual amortizations
- Misuse of financial and support services
- Sale, transfer of right to use the land
- Illegal conversion of land
- All reclasified lands before june 15, 1998 does not
require conversions clearance
- Authority to approve or disapprove conversions
exercised after effectivity of RA no. 6657 june 15 1988
Who can apply for Conversion

OBLIGATIONS of Beneficiaries - Beneficiary

- Landowner with respect to his retained area which is
1. exercise due diligence in the use of land tenanted

2. pay the Land Bank 30 annual amortizations When to apply for application for conversion

Section 27 - Transferability of Awarded Land - After 5 years from the award of land

- Cannot sell or transfer within 10 years Conditions for Conversion

- Only to the following may sell or transfer
- Land ceases its purpose for agriculutral use
a. hereditary successions - When it will have greater economic value other than
agriculutral use
b. to the Government

c. Land Bank of the Philippines

d. other qualified beneficiaries

Section 43 - PARC

-council is the highest policy-making body in implementing

agrarian reform laws and dealing with issues under the coverage
of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)

Section 44 - PARCCOM

-coordinate and monitor the implementation of CARP in the

province

Section 45 - province by province implementation

- Takes into accounts the peculiarities and needs of each

place, kind of crops need or suited, land distribution or
other factors prevalent in the area
Section 3 – Defenition of Terms

Agrarian reform - redistribution of lands, regardless of crops or

fruits produced to farmers and regular farmworkers

Agriculture, Agricultural Activity – Cultivation of the soil, planting

of crops, growing of trees, harvesting of such farm

Agricultural land- land devoted to agricultural activity, not

classified as mineral, forest, residential, commercial, industrial

Agrarian Dispute- cotroversy relating to tenurial arrangements

over lands devoted to agricultural land

Idle or abandonned land – any agricultural land not cultivated,

tilled or developed to produce any crop for a period of 3 years

- Except those due to force majeure

Farmer – a natural person whose primary liveliehood is cultivation

of land or the production of agricultural crops, livestock or
fisheries

Farmworker – natural person who renders services for value as an

employee laborer in agricultural enterprise

Regular farmworker - employed on regular basis by agricultural

enterprise

Seasonal farmworker - employed on periodice bais by

agricultural enterprise

Other Farmworker- farmwoker who does not fall within the

ambit of farmworker, regular or seasonal.