Special Motor Vehicle Number Plates

DESCRIPTION:

Motor vehicle owners can apply for special and personalised number plates.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Applications can be submitted directly to the Traffic Management and Transport Branch, or you can approach the nearest motor vehicle registering authority.

To apply for a special number plate, you need to complete and return application form SLN1, with a copy of your RSA ID.

Business applicants should provide:

a Traffic Register Number Certificate (issued by a motor vehicle registering authority) or
a Business Registration Certificate (issued by the registrar of companies) and
a copy of the proxy or representative's RSA ID.

Application forms can be posted or faxed to the Licence Numbers section at:

PO Box 2603, Cape Town, 8000
Room 2-20, 9 Dorp Street, Cape Town, 8000
Fax: 021 483 7332

You can also go directly to the offices between 8.00 - 12.15 am and 13.15 - 15.00.

Faxed applications are responded to within 24 hours. If approved, you will be issued with:

a letter of approval
a letter requesting payment.

Once the proof of payment is submitted and processed, you will be issued with:

a licencing letter
a SNL2 form
a PLN2 certificate (for a personalised licence number)
an order letter for the licence plate manufacturer to enable them to manufacture the number plates.

You need to register the vehicle at a motor vehicle registering authority centre. The licencing letter and PLN2 certificate enables you to license your vehicle using the special vehicle licence number. The special number plates are made at an authorised outlet.

To keep or transfer a specialised licence number, you can send an application form to the licence number section. Applications should be accompanied by an RSA ID and a Traffic Register Number Certificate or a Business Registration Certificate, as appropriate.

Special conditions apply to the use of special number plates.

For more information:

Please visit the Western Cape Provincial Administration Personalised and Special Discrete Numbers website where you can:

check to see if a licence number is available
submit an online application form.

Or call 0860 212 414 or email npasrec@pgwc.gov.za.

You can also call the Cape Gateway call centre at 0860 142 142.

PROVIDED BY:

GOVERNMENT BODY:

Roads Infrastructure Branch (Department of Transport and Public Works, Provincial Government of the Western Cape)

PRICE:

Personalised Licence Number	Fee	Example
1 x alpha or numeric character	R10 000.00	1 - WP B - WP
2 x alpha and/or numeric characters	R6 000.00	11 - WP 1A - WP AB - WP
3 x alpha and/or numeric characters	R4 000.00	111 - WP ABC - WP
All others, up to a maximum of seven alpha and/or numeric characters	R1 750.00	JOHNNY2 - WP RUN2ME - WP
3 x digits and letters	R10 000.00	CA 1
4 x digits and letters	R6 000.00	CA 11 CAW 1
6 x digits and letters	R2 000.00	CA 1111 CAW 111
All others	R600.00	CA 123-456 CAW 12345

Registration fee: R69.00

The content on this page was last updated on 23 April 2008

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