Effective immediately, the Board will grant provisional authority to applicants for franchises to operate school buses, pending resolution of the main applications for issuance of Certificates of Public Convenience, in order not to hamper transportation service to the pupils/students in view of the unified vehicle reduction program of the MMDA.

The unit/s, operated by virtue of said provisional authority, shall be valid for two (2) months from issuance thereof, unless otherwise revoked earlier, and shall be exempt from the vehicular traffic reduction program of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority.

To fast-track the grant of the provisional authority, the Chief of the Technical Evaluation Division of this Board is authorized to stamp and sign on the face of the application the provisional authority,

Adopted: 28 June 1996