A House leader on Saturday warmed concerned government agencies against issuing “half-baked” Implementing Rules and Regulations of new laws to avoid confusion once the new laws get implemented. “The confusion that characterized the initial implementation of the ADDA should be a lesson to all government agencies to refrain from enforcing new laws with half-baked IRRs,” Villafuerte, vice chairman of the House of Representatives’ committee on local government, said. Several senators have also called for a suspension of the law’s implementation after the public complained about the confusion in the rules set by the LTO to enforce the ADDA. The IRR also provides that drivers must stop and pull over before operating navigational aids, such as Waze, on their mobile phones or other GPS devices. It states a four-inch “safe zone” has also been prescribed by the Department of Transportation for the placement of devices to be used for navigational aids.

Source: The Standard July 15, 2017 17:37 UTC