South Africa license plate: FS personalised
Issued today 2002 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Department of Transport (national) and the MEC responsible for road traffic in each of the nine provinces. One of 20 South Africa license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL FS, for exampleSKG FS(L is any letter)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2002 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- Colours
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Characters
#006400Background#FFFFFF - Size
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520 × 113 mm · every country's size
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FS personalised 305×165 mm
personalized · 305 × 165 mm
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- About this plate
- FREE STATE personalised numbers, DARK GREEN characters on white with the cheetah landscape, from 10 April 2002. The Free State is also the one province with a bespoke national carve-out: GNR.779 of 4 June 2002 inserted reg 27(2)(bA) and reg 28(4A) to let the Free State MEC determine the TYPE of plate notwithstanding reg 35.
Legal basis and sources
- Free State Provincial Notice 52 of 2002, Provincial Gazette 25 of 9 April 2002, made under regs 28, 28A and 29(2): para 2(1) the six-character grammar; para 3 'dark green letters and figures on a white... https://www.policeroadstransport.fs.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Personalised-licence-number-system-for-the-Free...
- Free State Provincial Notice 278 of 2006, Provincial Gazette 102 of 15 December 2006: six -> seven characters, the 520 x 113 / 305 x 165 restriction, FE modified 60 mm on the smaller plate, metal OR plastic; para 4... https://www.policeroadstransport.fs.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Amendment-of-personal-licence-number-system-200...
- Free State Provincial Notice 16 of 2010: repeals the validation label and the plate-validity period https://www.policeroadstransport.fs.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Amendment-of-personalised-and-licence-number-pl...
- reg 28; reg 28(4A) and reg 27(2)(bA), both inserted by r. 2-3 of GNR.779 w.e.f. 4 June 2002, which give the Free State MEC alone the power to determine the TYPE of number plate notwithstanding reg 35 https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2021-06/%20ROAD%20TRAFFIC%20REGULATIONS,%202000.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is za-fs-personalised. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of South Africa's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/za \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "za-fs-personalised")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/za/za-fs-personalised.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/za/za-fs-personalised/template.svg
