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The COMMISSION ON THE SETTLEMENT OF LAND PROBLEMS is an administrative body under the Department of Justice vested with quasi-judicial powers and functions to act on, decide and resolve land disputes involving small settlers and members of indigenous communities.
COSLAP may, in the following cases, assume jurisdiction and resolve land problems or disputes which are critical and explosive in nature considering, for instance, the large number of the parties involved, the presence or emergence of social tension or unrest, or other similar critical situations requiring immediate action:
- Between occupants/squatters and pasture lease agreement holders or timber concessioners;
- Between occupants/squatters and government reservation grantees;
- Between occupants/squatters and public land claimants or applicants;
- Petitions for classification, release and/or subdivision of land of the public domain; and
- Other similar problems of grave urgency and magnitude.
Speedy and inexpensive investigation, conciliation and disposition of land disputes.
Conciliatory settlement of land disputes.
The COMMISSION ON THE SETTLEMENT OF LAND PROBLEMS - (COSLAP) (COSLAP), which was created under Executive Order No. 561 dated September 21, 1979 is an administrative body vested with quasi-judicial powers and functions. It took over from the abolished Presidential Action Committee on Land Problems (PACLAP), created pursuant to Executive Order No. 251 on July 31, 1970, whose functions, including its jurisdiction, power and authority to act on, decide and resolve land disputes were all assumed by COSLAP.
COSLAP was created primarily to extend assistance to small settlers, tillers, indigenous cultural minorities and the underprivileged in settling their problems in an expeditious and inexpensive manner. As an agency, it is also charged with the responsibility of formulating and recommending policies and innovative measures intended to prevent and/or minimize the occurrence of land problems and disputes thereby contributing to the maintenance of peace and order in the country.
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