Practice question
Where national-agency approval is required for reclassification, a proper and complete application remains unacted upon for the full three months after receipt. No different controlling rule or incomplete requirement is involved. What does Section 20(d) provide?
- Silence always means permanent rejection.
- Failure to act within the specified period is deemed approval of that application.
- The mayor may abolish all agrarian rights.
- Approval occurs only after thirty years.
- Every future application by the same owner is also approved.
Legal references
- Republic Act No. 7160, Section 20: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7160_1991.html
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