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sharing of incomes and revenues, in the areas of sea, seabed and inland
seas or bodies of water adjacent to or between islands forming part of the
ancestral domain, in addition to those of fishing rights.
[40] Republic Act No. 6734, Art. V, Sec. 2. The Autonomous Region is a corporate
entity with jurisdiction in all matters devolved to it by the Constitution and this
Organic Act as herein enumerated:
(1) Administrative organization;
(2) Creation of sources of revenues;
(3) Ancestral domain and natural resources;
(4) Personal, family and property relations;
(5) Regional, urban and rural planning development;
(6) Economic, social, and tourism development;
(7) Educational policies;
(8) Preservation and development of the cultural heritage;
(9) Powers, functions and responsibilities now being exercised by the
departments of the National Government except:
(a) Foreign affairs;
(b) National defense and security;
(c) Postal service;
(d) Coinage, and fiscal and monetary policies;
(e) Administration of justice;
(f) Quarantine;
(g) Customs and tariff;
(h) Citizenship;
(i) Naturalization, immigration and deportation;
(j) General auditing, civil service and elections;
(k) Foreign trade;
(l) Maritime, land and air transportation and communications
that affect areas outside the Autonomous Region; and
(m) Patents, trademarks, trade names, and copyrights; and
(10) Such other matters as may be authorized by law for the promotion
of the general welfare of the people of the Region.
[41]
MOA-AD, Territory, par. 2(f). "The BJE shall have jurisdiction over the
management, conservation, development, protection, utilization and disposition of
all natural resources, living and non-living, within its internal waters extending
fifteen (15) kilometers from the coastline of the BJE area."
[42] Id., par. 2(g). "
"(1) The territorial waters of the BJE shall stretch beyond the BJE internal waters up
to the Republic of the Philippines (RP) baselines south east and south west of
mainland Mindanao. Beyond the fifteen (15) kilometers internal waters, the Central
Government and the BJE shall exercise joint jurisdiction, authority and management
over areas and all natural resources, living and non-living contained therein. The
details of such management of the Territorial Waters shall be provided in an
agreement to be entered into by the Parties.
"(2) The boundaries of the territorial waters shall stretch beyond the 15-km. BJE
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