KUALA LUMPUR: The Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board (CVLB) has agreed to extend the age limit of school buses from 20 years to 30 years effective next year.

Its chairman, Datuk Halimah Mohamed Sadique, said the move was to enable school bus operators with vehicles which had exceeded the current 20-year age limit to continue to operate and provide transport service for schoolchildren.

"However, they are required to send their buses for periodical checks at the Computerised Vehicle Inspection centre (Puspakom) to ensure the vehicles are road worthy," she said in a statement today.

She said it would be up to Puspakom, depending on the bus condition, whether or not to allow the vehicle to continue to be on the road.

On the application for new licences and vehicle replacement, the age of the buses to be licensed should not be more than 20 years from the registration date, she added.

Courtesy: TheMalaysianinsider