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National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act No. 93 of 1996)

Regulations

National Road Traffic Regulations, 2000

Chapter III : Registration and Licensing of Motor Vehicles, and Registration of Manufacturers, Builders and Importers, and Manufacturers of Number Plates

Part I : Registration and licensing of motor vehicles

28. Personalised licence number system

 

(1) The MEC may by notice in the Provincial Gazette establish a personalised licence number system for the province concerned.

 

(2) The provisions of the Act which are applicable to licence numbers shall mutatis mutandis be applicable to personalised licence numbers.

 

(3) Personalised licence numbers shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these regulations be issued to a person upon application and subject to such conditions and upon payment of such fees or charges as are determined by the MEC of the province concerned.

 

(4) The MEC concerned may, subject to regulation 35, by notice in the Provincial Gazette determine a logo or landscape, a letter type, a colour for the letters and figures, and the colour of the retro-reflective surface to be displayed on a number plate denoting the personalised licence numbers of the province concerned.

 

(4A) Notwithstanding the provisions of regulation 35, the MEC for the Free State Province may by notice in the Provincial Gazette determine the type of number plate to be used to display a personalized number of a motor vehicle licenced in the Free State Province.

[Regulation 28(4A) inserted by regulation 3 of Notice No. R. 779 of 2002]

 

(4B) The MEC for the Province of KwaZulu-Natal may, subject to regulation 35, by notice in the Provincial Gazette determine a logo or landscape, a letter type, a colour for the letters and figures and the colour of the retro-reflective surface to be displayed on a number plate, denoting personalised licence numbers set aside for use by the King of the Zulu Nation.

[Regulation 28(4B) inserted by regulation 6 of Notice No. R. 589 of 2009]

 

(5) The person referred to in subregulation (3) may apply to the appropriate registering authority for the allocation of the personalised licence number issued under subregulation (3), to a motor vehicle of which he or she is the owner.