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South Africa license plate: GP personalised

Issued today Documented since 2000. 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.

South Africa license plate, GP personalised (documented since 2000), sample MMM GP
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL GP, for example MMM GP (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
Documented since 2000; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 113 mm · every country's size
About this plate
GAUTENG personalised numbers, owner-chosen characters followed by GP. A DATING CURIOSITY WORTH KEEPING: the province's own current form still cites "Road Traffic Act, 1989, Sec. 14" in its heading, an Act the NRTA 1996 replaced.

Legal basis and sources

  1. cmbinary.gauteng.gov.za https://cmbinary.gauteng.gov.za/Media?path=transport/Documents/Documents/GP%20Application%20Form%20-%20Personalised%2...
  2. reg 28(1),(3),(5); reg 28A cancellation and surrender 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-gp-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-gp-personalised")'
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