Executive Order No. 506 (1992) — Executive Order No. 448, Series of 1991, amended Executive Order No. 407, Series of 1990, including within— its coverage all government reservations or portions thereof, which are suitable for agriculture and no longer needed for the purpose for which they are established,— to further accelerate the acquisition and distribution of all lands of the public domain suitable for agriculture;

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Executive Order No. 506 (1992)

Executive Order No. 448, Series of 1991, amended Executive Order No. 407, Series of 1990, including within— its coverage all government reservations or portions thereof, which are suitable for agriculture and no longer needed for the purpose for which they are established,— to further accelerate the acquisition and distribution of all lands of the public domain suitable for agriculture;

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Section 1

Section 1. Section 1. A. of Executive Order No. 107, Series of 1990, as amended by Executive Order No. 146, Series of 1991, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"Section 1.A. Except national parks and other protected areas, all lands or portions of the public domain reserved by virtue of proclamation or law— for specific purposes or uses by departments, bureaus, offices and agencies of the Government, which are suitable for agricultural and no longer actually, directly and exclusively used or necessary for the purpose for which they have been reserved as determined by the Department of Agrarian Reform in coordination with the government agency or instrumentality concerned in whose favor— the reservation was established,— shall be segregated from the reservations and transferred to the Department of Agrarian Reform for distribution to qualified beneficiaries under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program."

Section 2

A new section is hereby added to Executive Order No

Section 2. A new section is hereby added to Executive Order No. 407, as amended, to read as follows:

"Section 1.B. All existing and proposed National Parks Game Refuge and— Bird Sanctuaries, Wildlife Reserves, Wilderness Areas and Other Protected Areas, including old growth or virgin forests, and all forests above 1,000 meters elevation or above 50 percent slope, are hereby excluded from the present segregation, acquisition and distribution procedures being conducted by the Department of Agrarian Reform until such time as these areas shall have been identified, studied and determined to be either retained and reclassified under the National Integrated Protected Areas— System of DENR or to be segregated for agricultural— purposes."

Section 3

Section 3. All proclamations establishing such reservations and falling within the coverage of this Executive Order are hereby revoked, amended or modified accordingly. 1aшphi1

Section 4

This Executive Order shall take effect immediately

Section 4. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila this 18th day of February in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-two.

(Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO

By the President:

(Sgd.) FRANKLlN M. DRILON Executive Secretary