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The Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act of 1997 (IPRA)

AN ACT TO RECOGNIZE, PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES/INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, CREATING A NATIONAL COMMISSION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, ESTABLISHING IMPLEMENTING MECHANISMS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES S. No. 1728 H. No. 9125

R.A . No. 8371 | 1997-10-29

Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila
 
Tenth Congress
 
Third Regular Session
 
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday the twenty-eighth day of July, nineteen hundred and ninety-seven
 
 
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8371
 
 
AN ACT TO RECOGNIZE, PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES/ INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, CREATING A NATIONAL COMMISSION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, ESTABLISHING IMPLEMENTING MECHANISMS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
 
 
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