Compliance with Registration Prerequisites of the Bureau of Land Transportation

May 3, 1982

LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1240

WHEREAS, the annual registration of vehicles, is a legal requirement, under BP Bilang 43, that does not exempt government-owned vehicles from its application;

WHEREAS, it has been observed that many government and military vehicles are still using old plates, which indicates non-compliance of the mandatory requirement of registration; cdt

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution, do hereby order and issue the following instructions:

1. All ministries, bureaus, agencies and offices, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, are hereby instructed to register their vehicles with the Bureau of Land Transportation, and secure and properly display the appropriate license plates, as required by law.

2. Any such vehicles which do not comply with the registration prerequisites of the Bureau, within a period of seven (7) days from the effectivity of this directive, shall not be allowed to be used by the agency concerned until compliance thereof.

3. The Bureau of Land Transportation and the Constabulary Highways Patrol Group are instructed to apprehend all violations and to impound the vehicles until these have been properly registered.

4. The Ministry of the Budget is also instructed to pass upon, with dispatch, any funds related to the payment of registration fees for and the issuance of vehicle plates to all government vehicles. cdt

DONE in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of May, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Two.