Section 5
SEC. 5. Section five of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 5. The Commission shall be the exclusive custodian and administrator in charge of the subdivision, allocation and distribution of public lands reserved or which may hereafter be reserved by the President of the Philippines for settlements, townsites, and roads; agricultural lands in the municipalities, provinces and cities predominantly inhabited by members of the national cultural minorities according to the latest official population census, which have been or may be surveyed, and sub-divided under Commonwealth Act Numbered Six hundred and ninety-one, as amended; areas released from the forest zone upon petition by members of the national cultural minorities or by the Commission on National Integration; and lands within a forest zone declared by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources to be found more suitable for agricultural than for timber purposes which have been actually occupied by members of the national cultural minorities since July four, nineteen hundred forty-five."