CIRCULAR
NO. 71-97
TO:
ALL
JUDGES OF REGIONAL TRIAL COURTS
SUBJECT:
SERVICE OF NOTICES, MOTIONS, ORDERS, JUDGMENTS AND OTHER PAPERS IN LAND
REGISTRATION CASES.
This Office has received
a letter dated 19 September 1997 from Acting Secretary Antonio G.M. La
Vina of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources [DENR] in
relation
to land registration cases filed with the courts in which the Lands
Management
Bureau of the said Department has been impleaded to handle the
disposition
of public lands. Acting Secretary La Vina informs this Office [1] that,
pursuant to the provisions of Executive Order No. 192 entitled
"Providing
for the Reorganization of the Department of Environment, Energy and
Natural
Resources; Renaming it as the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources
and for Other Purposes" dated 10 June 1987, the Lands Management Bureau
had been tasked as the policy-making arm of the DENR concerning the
effective
and. efficient management, survey and disposition of public alienable
and
disposable lands, government-owned lands and other lands not placed
under
the jurisdiction of other government agencies; and [2] that the line
functions
of the Lands Management Bureau, including the handling of land
registration
cases, had been transferred to the DENR Regional Offices.
Acting Secretary
La Vina requests that all notices, motions, orders, judgments and other
papers relative to the handling of land registration cases be sent to
the
Regional Executive Director [RED] of the DENR Regional Office with
jurisdiction
over the land subject of the case, in view of the change in the
function
of the Lands Management Bureau herein adverted to and the following
additional
circumstances: [1] the notices, motions, orders, judgments and other
papers
will be transmitted and acted upon more expeditiously if sent to the
DENR
Regional Office concerned, considering the proximity of these Regional
Offices to the courts; and [2] the field lawyers in the DENR Regional
Offices
will be able to handle these cases more efficiently as the said cases
had
been investigated by the said Regional Offices and the records
pertaining
thereto are in their custody.
In view of the foregoing,
it is hereby directed that the courts concerned serve all notices,
motions,
orders, judgments and other papers relative to the land registration
cases
herein referred to upon the Regional Executive Director of the DENR
Regional
Office with jurisdiction over the land subject matter of the cases
involved.
October 23, 1995.
[Sgd.]
ALFREDO
L. BENIPAYOCourt
Administrator
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