It is illegal to buy the KZN personalised licence numbers for the purpose of reselling them to other members of the public at a higher price.

This warning has been issued by KZN MEC for Transport and Human Settlements Siboniso Duma on Thursday, following the discovery of personalised licence numbers being sold for between R5000 and R10 000 on various social media platforms.

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“The cost of the personalised licence number, which is only determined by the Minister of Transport, is R2 250. Unfortunately, there are motorists who have paid between R7 000 and R10 000. This is illegal,” said Duma.

Duma said the sale of a personalised licence plate by any motorist is a ‘clear indication that they no longer require the number’.

“Therefore, as the MEC, I will exercise my authority by cancelling the said personalised licence numbers. These will be resold to other members of the public on a first-come, first-served basis,” he said.

“In terms of the National Road Traffic Act, regulation 28, only myself, in my capacity as the MEC for Transport may establish a personalised licence number system in the province.

“I delegated this function to the Motor Transport Service’s Choice Numbers Section, which remains the only section authorised to sell personalised licence numbers in the province.”

He said members of the public who acquire a personalised licence number are ‘furnished with conditions of owning a personalised licence number, which they must sign an acknowledgement of before paying for the said personalised licence number’.

“Clause 13 of the conditions of owning a personalised licence number reads as follows: ‘If the holder of a personalised license number no longer requires that personalised licence number, he or she must surrender that personalised licence number to the MEC.”

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