Mansour issues two presidential decrees

Interim President Adly Mansour issued on Wednesday presidential decree number one for law number 160 for year 2013 prohibiting the licensing of taxies and passenger vehicles manufactured more than 20 years ago, while the  second decree concerns the evacuation and selling of property and land owned by prisons, privately-owned daily Al-Masry al-Youm reported on Wednesday.

The privately-owned newspaper adds that the new traffic law states that the license of any taxi older than 20 years expires after three years from the last time the license was renewed and for public transportation vehicles, all licenses expire by August 1 2015.

Mansour also issued presidential decree number 662 for year 2013 regarding land owned by prison management, allowing for the sale of these lands on the condition that new prison facilities be built from the money earned from the sale, the newspaper adds.

The new law entrusts the Interior Ministry Trust Fund with selling lands owned by prisons and to use the money to renovate and buy new equipment for already existing prisons or to build new facilities.