An Act Further Amending Section Fifty-Eight of Act Numbered Four Hundred Ninety-Six, Known as the "Land Registration Act," to Facilitate Dealings in Lands Sold by the Government Pending Approval of the Subdivision Surveys
Land Registration Act
Year:
1954
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
June 15, 1954
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This Act amends Section Fifty-Eight of the Land Registration Act to allow for the registration of deeds of sale executed by the Government for lands pending approval of subdivision surveys. It aims to facilitate dealings in such lands and secure loans from banking institutions.Full Text
REPUBLIC ACT No. 1096
An Act Further Amending Section Fifty-Eight of Act Numbered Four Hundred Ninety-Six, Known as the "Land Registration Act," to Facilitate Dealings in Lands Sold by the Government Pending Approval of the Subdivision Surveys
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. Section fifty-eight of Act Numbered Four hundred ninety-six, known as the Land Registration Act, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following additional paragraph:
Section 2. All laws and regulations, or parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.
Section 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval
Approved: June 15, 1954.
"For the purpose of securing loans from banking and credit institutions, the foregoing prohibition against the acceptance for registration or annotation of a subsequent deed or other voluntary instrument shall not apply in the case of deeds of sale duly executed by the Government or any of its instrumentalities, with respect to portions of lands registered in the name of the Republic of the Philippines."
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