AN ACT DECLARING A TOTAL OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY (120) HECTARES OF THE TALA ESTATE, KALOOKAN CITY AS ALIENABLE AND DISPOSABLE AND CONVERTING THEM INTO HOUSING SITES, AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE CERTAIN SECTIONS OF PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION NO. 843, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Nineth Congress
Third Regular Session

[ REPUBLIC ACT No. 7999, April 22, 1995 ]

AN ACT DECLARING A TOTAL OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY (120) HECTARES OF THE TALA ESTATE, KALOOKAN CITY AS ALIENABLE AND DISPOSABLE AND CONVERTING THEM INTO HOUSING SITES, AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE CERTAIN SECTIONS OF PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION NO. 843, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1. Declaration of a Total of One Hundred Twenty (120) Hectares of the Tala Estate as Alienable and Disposable and their Conversion into Housing Sites. - Of the eight hundred eight (808) hectares of the Tala Estate located in Kalookan City which were reserved under Presidential Proclamation No. 843 for Tala Leprosarium and settlement site for hansenites and their families; a pilot housing development project; a civic center; welfare projects; and for other housing and urban development purposes, the following areas are hereby declared and/or converted as follows:

Section 2. Implementing Agency. - The National Housing Authority shall be the agency primarily responsible for the implementation and enforcement of this Act.

The National Housing Authority, in cooperation with the Department of Health and in consultation with the homeowners associations concerned, shall promulgate and issue such rules and regulations for the effective implementation and enforcement of the provisions of this Act, subject to existing policies on cost recovery, housing planning and development and other existing laws.

Section 3. AdHoc Committee. - An ad hoc committee of seven (7) members composed of representatives of the National Housing Authority, the Department of Health, the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor, the City Government of Kalookan, a nongovernment organization concerned with hansenites, an urban poor people's organization, and the hansenites associations shall be formed to issue the necessary guidelines to determine who are the qualified beneficiaries under this Act.

Section 4. Repealing Clause. - Presidential Proclamation No. 843 and other laws, executive orders, proclamations and administrative rules and regulations inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Section 5. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after the completion of its publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Lapsed into law on April 22, 1995 without the President's signature, pursuant to Sec. 27(1), Article VI of the Constitution.