10/12/2019 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly their ancestral domain as well as their rights thereto,[43] with due regard to their beliefs, customs, traditions and institutions.[44] At this juncture, it is not amiss to state that the NCIP's decision shall be appealable to the Court of Appeals by way of a petition for review under Rule 43 of the Rules of Court.[45] Meanwhile, the fatal flaw in petitioners' insistence that the NCIP's quasi-judicial jurisdiction is exclusive and original, can be gathered from records of the Bicameral Conference Committee cited in Justice Brion's Separate Opinion: The word "jurisdiction" in the first part of Section 66 is unqualified. Section 66 (then Section 71) of Senate Bill 1728 was originally worded exclusive and original jurisdiction. During the Bicameral Conference, the lower house objected to giving the NCIP exclusive and original jurisdiction: Sen. Juan Flavier: (Chairman of the Senate Panel) There is exclusive original. And so what do you suggest? .... .... Rep. Zapata (Chairman of the Panel for the House of Representatives) Chairman, may I butt in? Sen. Flavier Yes, please. Rep. Zapata This was considered. The original, we were willing in the house. But the "exclusive", we objected to the word "exclusive" because it would only be the commission that would exclude the court and the Commission may not be able to undertake all elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/63044 12/32