Section 2
SEC. 2. After the tenant-farmer shall have fully complied with the requirements for a grant of title under Presidential Decree No. 27, an Emancipation Patent and/or Grant shall be issued by the Department of Agrarian Reform on the basis of a duly approved survey plan. If the land is previously registered under the Torrens System, the Emancipation Patent and/or Grant, if filed with the Register of Deeds, shall constitute conclusive authority for him to enter a transfer certificate of title in accordance with such patent and/or grant: Provided, however, That the Register of Deeds, before cancelling the original of the certificate of title and issuing a new one in favor of the grantee, shall require the registered owner or the party in possession thereof to surrender for cancellation the owner's duplicate within a reasonable period: And provided, further, That if the owner or party withholding such duplicate certificate shall refuse or fail to surrender the same within thirty (30) days from and after the date of receipt of the proper notice, the Register of Deeds shall be authorized to cancel the original as well as the owner's duplicate certificate of title and issue in lieu thereof a new one, with the corresponding owner's duplicate, in favor of the grantee. If the patent or grant affects unregistered lands previously recorded under Section one, the filing of the Emancipation Patent and/or Grant with the Register of Deeds for the province or city where the land is situated, shall forthwith bring the land under the operation of Act 496, as amended, and the same shall thenceforth be considered registered lands. It shall thus be the duty of the Register of Deeds, after the entry of the patent and/or grant in the corresponding registration book, to enter an original certificate of title for such registered land, and issue an owner's duplicate certificate to the grantee.