Improving The Tenurial Arrangements Between The Landowner And Tenants In Private Agricultural Lands Devoted To Crops Other Than Rice And Corn

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Summary of Presidential Decree No. 1583

Improving Tenurial Arrangements Between Landowners and Tenants in Private Agricultural Lands Devoted to Crops Other Than Rice and Corn

- A Presidential Committee is created to determine the classes or nature of relationships or arrangements where tenancy shall be considered to have been established by a farmer-tiller with the landowner, landholder or legal possessor. (Section 1)
- Where tenancy is determined to exist, the tenant shall be entitled to the full protection and rights of tenants under Presidential Decree No. 1038 dated October 21, 1976. (Section 1)
- The Committee shall review and recommend policies or courses of action to strengthen the tenurial security of tenant-tillers. (Section 1)
- The Committee shall undertake studies and perform tasks necessary for the protection and improvement of the status of tenants in plantations devoted to crops other than rice and/or corn. (Section 1)
- The plantation owner, landholder or legal possessor shall immediately determine and identify by a statement filed with the Ministry of Agrarian Reform the specific areas to be covered by tenancy for purposes of this Decree. (Section 2)
- If any section or provision of this Decree is declared unconstitutional or invalid, no other provision shall be affected. (Section 3)
- All decrees, laws and orders, or provisions thereof inconsistent with this Decree, are hereby repealed and/or modified accordingly. (Section 4)
- This Decree shall take effect immediately. (Section 5)