PD 1998 Section 2

Section 2

SEC. 2. When public interest so requires, steps shall be taken to expropriate/cancel titles, reject public land application, or eject occupants thereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed. DONE in Metro Manila, Philippines, this 9th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-five. (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA Presidential Executive Assistant

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Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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