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South Africa license plate: WC 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, WC personalised (documented since 2000), sample JTV WP
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL WP, for example JTV WP (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
WESTERN CAPE personalised numbers, one to seven owner-chosen alphanumerics followed by WP. This is the ONLY context in which "WP" appears on a Western Cape plate, because the province issues its ordinary numbers under the registering-authority limb.
How numbers are issued
owner-chosen; availability-checked on application (form SLN1)

Legal basis and sources

  1. reg 28(1) MEC may establish a personalised licence number system; reg 28(3) issued on application on conditions and fees the MEC determines; reg 28A cancellation https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2021-06/%20ROAD%20TRAFFIC%20REGULATIONS,%202000.pdf
  2. westerncape.gov.za https://www.westerncape.gov.za/mobility/service/applying-special-motor-vehicle-number-plates

This plate in your app

The series id is za-wc-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-wc-personalised")'
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