Section 3
SEC. 3. Section five of said Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and seventy-nine is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 5. Except by permission of the Central Sugar Board, no owner of land or of cane contracted for by a central may, within twenty years from and after the date of the contract, give, sell, alienate, or in any other manner dispose of or engage his production of cane to any person other than the central. "No proprietor of land under contract with a central may, within twenty years from and after the date of the contract, give, sell, alienate, or in any other manner dispose of or engage his property without the consent of the Central Sugar Board. "All contracts made by the owner of cane land with a central, by which said owner binds himself to set aside the said land for the cultivation of sugar-cane and to deliver said cane to the central, shall apply to the land during the entire term of the contract and shall be binding upon any and all of the subsequent owners: Provided, That duly certified copies of said contracts shall be filed for registration in the office of the register of deeds of the province in which the land affected, or part thereof, is situate, and shall be registered as provided by the Land Registration Act or by the Mortgage Law, with respect of all the land now covered by such contracts or which may hereafter be registered under any of the said systems. "And any other agreement, document, or transaction made in violation of this section shall be null and void: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall be applicable only to contracts made with sugar centrals who have taken advantage of the benefits of this Act. "All applications for aid under this Act addressed to the Central Sugar Board by any individual or corporation shall be under oath and in such form as the Central Sugar Board may prescribe."