VehiclesDB

South Africa license plate: GP standard 3L3F

Issued today Documented since 2000. Standard 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 standard 3L3F (documented since 2000), sample VWS 466 GP
Make this plate with your text Download the blank template (SVG) Every South Africa license plate

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999 GP, for example VWS 466 GP (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 113 mm · every country's size
  • South Africa license plate, GP standard 3L3F 250×205 mm (documented since 2000)

    GP standard 3L3F 250×205 mm

    standard · 250 × 205 mm

  • South Africa license plate, GP standard 3L3F 250×165 mm (documented since 2000)

    GP standard 3L3F 250×165 mm

    standard · 250 × 165 mm

About this plate
This series is not closed, the overwhelming majority of Gauteng plates on the road carry it, and it runs in parallel with the newer two-letter/two-figure/two-letter issue.
How the region is encoded
The trailing GP is the reg 27(1) provincial mark for Gauteng and encodes the province of LICENSING, not the owner's address and not the place of first registration. It does not narrow further: Gauteng runs one province-wide system, not per-town codes.
How numbers are issued
Reg 27 does not publish an allocation order and no Gauteng gazette setting one was located.

Legal basis and sources

  1. reg 27(2)(a)(ii)(aa) three letters + three figures; reg 27(3) composition; the proviso https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2021-06/%20ROAD%20TRAFFIC%20REGULATIONS,%202000.pdf
  2. GG 37542 GN 287 of 9 April 2014 reproducing reg 27 in identical words https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/37542gen287.pdf
  3. Gauteng form PRN1-GP: the registration-number fields are pre-printed 'G P', the GP mark https://cmbinary.gauteng.gov.za/Media?path=transport/Documents/Documents/GP%20Application%20Form%20-%20Personalised%2...
  4. reg 35(2) colours, 35(10) sizes 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-standard-3l3f. 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-standard-3l3f")'
Check plate formats in your app

More license plates

Nearest to South Africa