Practice question
An applicant proposes a thirty-year initial ordinary mineral production-sharing agreement. It cites the ninety-nine-year ceiling for qualifying foreign-investor leases of private land as sufficient authority. No different constitutional resource route is invoked. Which is correct?
- The distinct private-land lease law does not remove Section 2’s twenty-five-year maximum initial term for this ordinary resource agreement
- Every private lease amendment automatically amends the Constitution
- All resource arrangements must now last ninety-nine years
- The contractor alone chooses the applicable constitutional category
- A lease and production-sharing agreement are always legally identical
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article XII, Section 2.
- RA 12252, September 3, 2025, amending RA 7652: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2025/ra_12252_2025.html; amended coverage concerns private-land leases.
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