
Originally Posted by
emarqz
Hi sirs,
I am also in the same quandary as inaappropriate restriction may get us into all sorts of inconvenience such as presumption of negligence, violation of
traffic laws etc, including denial of claim from the insurance company, in cases of damages.
The issue is whether or not restriction 2 covers automatic transmission vehicles?
There is a rule in statutory construction that "what the law does not distinguish, we cannot distinguish". Which means, if we are to apply, "Vehicle up to 4500 kgs g v w" does include manual, automatic, sportronic, or tiptronic trannys. This is just my interpretation though of the restrictions so stated at the back portion
of the license. Should it be better if we have concrete legal basis on this one? Unfortunately, i have scoured on agency sites with no mention of it.
May we ask those from LTO to publish specifically their memorandum circular on this to settle the issue for once and for all.
Safe driving everyone.