MEMORANDUM
CIRCULAR NO. 6 [1978]
TO: ALL
JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS AND JUDGES OF THE COURT OF TAX
APPEALS,
COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE, COURTS OF AGRARIAN RELATIONS, JUVENILE AND
DOMESTIC
RELATIONS COURTS, CIRCUIT CRIMINAL COURTS AND OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE
JUDICIARY
CONCERNED
SUBJECT:
CANCELLATION OR WITHDRAWAL OF LOW CAR PLATE NUMBERS.
For their
information
and guidance, quoted hereunder is Executive Order No. 505 of the Office
of the President dated June 9, 1978:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
"EXECUTIVE
ORDER
NO. 505"By
the President
of the Philippines
"REVOKING
EXECUTIVE
ORDER NO. 287, SERIES OF 1959, AND EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 374, SERIES OF
1960,
AUTHORIZING THE USE OF LOW PLATE NUMBERS BY HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.
"Executive
Order No.
287, Series of 1959 and Executive Order No. 374, Series of 1960,
authorizing
high government officials to use low plate numbers for their cars are
hereby
revoked.
"Heretofore,
the
Secretary of Public Works, Transportation and Communications and the
Chairman
of the Land Transportation Commission are hereby directed not to issue
low plate numbers for the official use of high government officials.
"All low
plate numbers
that may have been issued in the past are hereby cancelled or
withdrawn.
Anybody caught using low plate numbers will be subjected to
disciplinary
action.
"Done in
the City
of Manila, this 9th day of June in the year of Our Lord, nineteen
hundred
and seventy-eight.cralaw:red
"[Sgd.] "PRESIDENT
OF
THE PHILIPPINES:By
the President:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
"[Sgd.]
JUAN
C. TUVERA Presidential
Assistant"For this
purpose, the
low car plate numbers already issued may be surrendered to the office
of
the Land Transportation Commission concerned in exchange for another.
Strict compliance
herewith is hereby enjoined.
Manila, July 11,
1978.
[Sgd.]
FRED
RUIZ CASTROChief
Justice
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