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    This document is the text of Republic Act No. 8506 which bans the registration and operation of vehicles with right-hand steering wheels on public and private streets and highways in the Philippines. The law makes it unlawful to import, register, use, or operate such vehicles, except for vintage cars made before 1960, vehicles used for sanctioned motorsports, and off-road vehicles. Anyone violating this law faces 6 months to 4 years imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 pesos. The act took effect immediately upon publication in the Official Gazette or two national newspapers.

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    S. No.

    1568
    H. No. 129

    Republic of the Philippines


    Congress of the Philippines
    Metro Manila

    Tenth Congress

    Third Regular Session

    Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of


    July, nineteen hundred and ninety-seven.

    [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8506]

    AN ACT BANNING THE REGISTRATION AND OPERATION OF VEHICLES WITH RIGHT-


    HAND STEERING WHEEL IN ANY PRIVATE OR PUBLIC STREET, ROAD OR HIGHWAY,
    PROVIDING PENALTIES THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress


    assembled:

    SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to import, cause the importation of register
    cause the registration of, use, or operate any vehicle with its steering wheel right-hand side
    thereof in any highway, street or road, whether private or public or of the national or local
    government except such vehicles that are acknowledge as vintage automobiles, manufactured
    before 1960, in showroom condition, and/or are to be utilized exclusively for officially and
    legally sanctioned motorsports events, and off-road special purpose vehicles.

    SEC. 2. The penalty of prision correctional in its medium period and a fine of Fifty thousand
    pesos (P50.000) shall be imposed upon any person violating the provisions of this Act.

    SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately after its complete publication in the Official
    Gazette or in at least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

    Approved,

    (Sgd.) JOSE DE VENECIA, JR.


    Speaker of the House
    of Representatives

    This Act, which is a consolidation of Senate Bill No. 1568 and House Bill No. 129 was finally
    passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on February 6, 1998.

    1
    (Sgd.) ROBERTO P. NAZARENO
    Secretary General
    House of Representatives

    Approved:
    FEB 13 1998

    (Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS


    President of the Philippines

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