LICENSE PLATE REQUIREMENT FOR SHIPYARDS, BOATYARDS, AND SHIP REPAIR/SHIPBREAKING YARDS/SHOPS

Pursuant to Section 2 of Presidential Decree No. 474, Executive
Order No. 125/125-A, Republic Act. No. 9295 and Presidential Decree No.
666, the following regulations are hereby adopted.

1. For purposes of more effective identification, monitoring and
enforcement, all entities/establishments registered by the MARINA to
engage in shipbuilding/boatbuilding, ship repair and shipbreaking are
hereby required to acquire and display in their premises a License
Plate, as designed and produced by this Authority.

2. A License Plate shall be sold to entities covered by this Circular at reasonable/actual cost of not more than P500.00.

3. The License Plate shall have a validity of nine (9) years which
shall correspond with the expiry date of the entity’s Certificate of
Registration. The initial License Plate to be issued however, will have a
validity of less than nine (9) years but not more than six (6) years,
depending on the expiry date of the Certificate of Registration of the
concerned entity.

4. Possession and display of the herein required License Plate shall
become mandatory to all covered entities starting 01 June 2009.

5. Subsequent to the issuance of the License Plate to a registered
entity, and upon favorable result of the annual inspection conducted
thereat, a sticker reflecting the year of inspection shall be affixed by
the MARINA inspector(s) to the License Plate of the entity, also for
purposes of easier determination of compliance with the annual
inspection requirement.

6. Non-possession of the herein required License Plate by a concerned
entity after 01 June 2009 shall, after due process, provide the basis
for the imposition of a penalty of P 5,000.00 + 30-day suspension of the
license for the 1st offense, and penalty of P10,000.00 + revocation of
license for the second offense.

This Circular shall take effect fifteen (15) days after publication
once in one (1) newspaper of national circulation or in the Official
Gazette.

Adopted: 23 Mar. 2009

By Authority of the Board:

(SGD.) MARIA ELENA H. BAUTISTA
Administrator