Practice question
A community temporarily resettles after a natural catastrophe. A private enterprise asserts that the move automatically abandons every statutory domain right and allows permanent occupation without further inquiry. The community seeks return when conditions become safe. Which is best?
- Every disaster extinguishes ancestral rights
- Temporary resettlement automatically transfers title
- IPRA protects disaster-displacement interests, including the specified return and resettlement safeguards
- The enterprise decides safety conclusively
- The community must permanently abandon all claims
Legal references
- Republic Act No. 8371, Chapters I-III, especially Sections 3-11: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1997/ra_8371_1997.html
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