public worship; a prescribed or established rite, ceremony, proceeding or service: the ritual of the dead; prescribed, established or ceremonial acts or features collectively, as in religious services; any practice or pattern of behavior regulating social conduct. t. "Performance" refers to the acting out of a ceremony, play, piece of music, etc., the execution or accomplishment of work acts, feats, etc., a particular action, deed or proceeding the manner in which or the efficiency with which something reacts or fulfills its intended purpose, and not necessarily as part of social process. u. "Ownership" refers to the legal right of possession or proprietorship; the state, relation, or fact of being an owner; also, the rights or interests of an owner, ownership especially by a single person that is free of any encumbrances or limitations other than statutory. v. "Culture" - The UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies (Mexico, 1982) defines culture, in its widest sense, as the whole complex of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional features that characterize a society or a social group. This includes not only the arts and letters but also modes of life, value systems, traditions and beliefs. Culture, however, can also be looked at as an aggregate and internally inconsistent body of knowledge and meanings, unevenly distributed among individuals of a community, and acquired by these individuals through their experiences and transactions in everyday life. SECTION 4. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCAA) hereinafter referred to as the Commission, shall implement the provisions of the Act. SECTION 5. Traditional cultural property, whether tangible or intangible, of all the ethno-linguistic groups that make up the people of the Philippines shall not lapse into public domain after 50 years from creation, and shall continue indefinitely to be exclusive property of these ethno-linguistic groups that communally own them. Traditional heritage, both tangible and intangible are to be held in perpetuity in ethnic memory and considered valid as ethnic intellectual property. SECTION 6. Under the guidance of the Commission and National Museum (NM), or any other pertinent national cultural agency, the Local Government Units (LGU) with the assistance of the National Commission for Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) shall organize inventories of cultural properties of the different ethno-linguistic groups of the Philippines that are distinctive, characteristic of or derived from their particular traditional culture, to the exclusion of those of others and shall; submit these to the 4