LEASEHOLD TENANCY TENANT EMANCIPATION DECREE

COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM

LEGAL BASIS 1. Reform Code (August 8, 1963)2. Republic Act No. 6389- Code of

Agrarian Reform (September 10, 1971)

3. Presidential Decree No. 1425-Amending Presidential Decree No. 1040 by Strengthening the Prohibition against Agricultural Share, Tenancy and Providing Penalties for Violation thereof. (June 10, 1978)

4. Section 12, Republic Act No. 6657- Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988.

1. Presidential Decree No. 27 – Tenant’s Emancipation Decree (October 21, 1972)

2. Letter Instruction No. 474-PLACING UNDER OLT TENANTED RICE/CORN LANDS SEVEN HECTARES OR LESS IN AREA UNDER CERTAIN CONDITION (OCTOBER 21, 1976)

1.Presidential Proclamation No. 131-Instituting a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (July 22, 1987)

2.Republic Act No. 6657 – An Act instituting a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program to Promote Social Justice and Industrialization, providing the Mechanism for its Implementation and other purposes. (June 15, 1988)

JURISPRUDENCE ON CONSTITUTIONALITY

1. Security of Tenure- Primero vs. CIR, 10 Phil. 675 (1957); Pineda vs. de Guzman, 21 SCRA 1450 (1967).

1. Presidential Decree No. 27 was assumed to be constitutional and upheld as part and parcel of the law of the land in De Chavez vs. Zobel, 155 SCRA 26; Gonzales vs. Estrella, 91 SCRA 294 (1979) and Association of Small Landowners in the Philippines Inc. vs. Secretary of Agrarian Reform, 175 SCRA 342 (1989)

2. Letter of Instruction No. 474 Constitutionality was upheld in Zurbano vs. Estrella, 137 SCRA 333 (1989)

1. The power of President Aquino to promulgate Proc. No. 131 and E.O. Nos. 228 and 229 was authorized under Section 6 of the Transitory Provision of the 1987 Constitution. All assault on the validity of RA 6657 was set aside. (Association of Small Landowners in the Philippines Inc. vs. Secretary of Agrarian Reform, 175 SCRA 342 (1989)