PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No.
1529 or Property Registration Decree
Section 50. Subdivision and consolidation plans. Any owner subdividing a tract of registered
land into lots which do not constitute a subdivision project has defined and provided for under
P.D. No. 957, shall file with the Commissioner of Land Registration or with the Bureau of Lands
a subdivision plan of such land on which all boundaries, streets, passageways and waterways, if
any, shall be distinctly and accurately delineated.
If a subdivision plan, be it simple or complex, duly approved by the Commissioner of Land
Registration or the Bureau of Lands together with the approved technical descriptions and the
corresponding owner's duplicate certificate of title is presented for registration, the Register of
Deeds shall, without requiring further court approval of said plan, register the same in
accordance with the provisions of the Land Registration Act, as amended: Provided, however,
that the Register of Deeds shall annotate on the new certificate of title covering the street,
passageway or open space, a memorandum to the effect that except by way of donation in favor
of the national government, province, city or municipality, no portion of any street, passageway,
waterway or open space so delineated on the plan shall be closed or otherwise disposed of by the
registered owner without the approval of the Court of First Instance of the province or city in
which the land is situated.
A registered owner desiring to consolidate several lots into one or more, requiring new technical
descriptions, shall file with the Land Registration Commission, a consolidation plan on which
shall be shown the lots to be affected, as they were before, and as they will appear after the
consolidation. Upon the surrender of the owner's duplicate certificates and the receipt of
consolidation plan duty approved by the Commission, the Register of Deeds concerned shall
cancel the corresponding certificates of title and issue a new one for the consolidated lots.
The Commission may not order or cause any change, modification, or amendment in the contents
of any certificate of title, or of any decree or plan, including the technical description therein,
covering any real property registered under the Torrens system, nor order the cancellation of the
said certificate of title and the issuance of a new one which would result in the enlargement of
the area covered by the certificate of title.
PD 957 or Subdivision and Condominium Buyers Decree
Section 17. Registration. All contracts to sell, deeds of sale and other similar instruments relative to
the sale or conveyance of the subdivision lots and condominium units, whether or not the purchase
price is paid in full, shall be registered by the seller in the Office of the Register of Deeds of the
province or city where the property is situated.
Whenever a subdivision plan duly approved in accordance with Section 4 hereof, together with the
corresponding owner's duplicate certificate of title, is presented to the Register of Deeds for
registration, the Register of Deeds shall register the same in accordance with the provisions of the
Land Registration Act, as amended: Provided, however, that it there is a street, passageway or
required open space delineated on a complex subdivision plan hereafter approved and as defined in
this Decree, the Register of Deeds shall annotate on the new certificate of title covering the street,
passageway or open space, a memorandum to the effect that except by way of donation in favor of a
city or municipality, no portion of any street, passageway, or open space so delineated on the plan
shall be closed or otherwise disposed of by the registered owner without the requisite approval as
provided under Section 22 of this Decree.
Section 22. Alteration of Plans. No owner or developer shall change or alter the roads, open
spaces, infrastructures, facilities for public use and/or other form of subdivision development as
contained in the approved subdivision plan and/or represented in its advertisements, without the
permission of the Authority and the written conformity or consent of the duly organized
homeowners association, or in the absence of the latter, by the majority of the lot buyers in the
subdivision.
