(NAR) VOL. 26 NO. 2/ APRIL - JUNE 2015
Adopted: 13 January 2015
Date Filed: 29 June 2015SECTION 1. There shall be incorporated after Section 1 of Administrative Order (A.O.) No. 11, Series of 2014, a new section to read as follows:
SECTION 1-A. Definition of “Party-in-Interest”. - For purposes of this A.O., the term “party-in-interest” shall refer to any of the following:
(a) | Farmers alleging to be tenants, farmworkers, or actual tillers of the land sought to be covered; |
(b) | Associations of those mentioned in (a), regardless if these associations are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or Cooperative Development Authority, or not; |
(c) | Civil society organizations and People’s organizations advocating for the completion of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP); and |
(d) | Such other persons interested in the completion of CARP and have personal knowledge that the land sought to be covered exists and may be covered by CARP. |
SECTION 2. The first paragraph of Section 2 of A.O. No. 11, Series of 2014 is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 2. Commencement - Any request or petition for coverage shall be commenced by the filing of an initiatory pleading or petition before the Regional Director (RD) having territorial jurisdiction over the subject landholding/s.
SECTION 3. The last paragraph of Section 5 of A.O. No. 11, Series of 2014 is hereby repealed, and said Section is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 5. Disclosure Statement - The petitioner and the respondent shall disclose and certify under oath, in the petition or its integral annex, that:
(a) | He is a parry-in-interest or properly authorized by a party-in-interest, in case of the petitioner, or the fact that he is the respondent, in such case; |
(b) | He has not commenced and/or is aware of any other action or proceeding involving the same land, or a portion thereof, or issue in any court, tribunal, or quasi-judicial agency; and to the best of his knowledge, no such action or proceeding is pending in any court, tribunal, or quasi- Judicial agency; |
(c) | If there is any action or proceeding which is either pending or may have been terminated, he shall state the status thereof; and |
(d) | If he thereafter learns that a similar action or proceeding has been filed or is pending before any court, tribunal, or quasi-judicial agency, he undertakes to report that fact within five (5) days therefrom to the DAR Office where the case for Petition for Coverage is pending. |
SECTION 4. Repealing Clause. - All orders, circulars, rules and regulations, and issuances or portions thereof inconsistent herewith are hereby accordingly deemed repealed or modified.
SECTION 5. Separability Clause. - Any judicial pronouncement declaring as unconstitutional any provision hereof shall have no effect on the validity of the other provisions not affected thereby.
SECTION 6. Effectivity Clause. - This A.O. shall take effect immediately after its publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation.
Diliman, Quezon City, January 13, 2015.
(SGD) VIRGILIO R. DE LOS REYES
Secretary