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Post by Expat on Dec 30, 2010 21:11:18 GMT
VEHICLES bearing the old licence plates are today 29/12/2010 required off the country’s roads until they acquire the new plates. Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development Mr Patson Mbiriri yesterday said the December 31 deadline would not be extended and offenders risk having their vehicles impounded. He said motorists should change over from old to new vehicle licence plates. "There is no change. Tomorrow (today) is the last day and I would like to urge those who have not changed their licence plates not to drive on any roads countrywide as they risk having their vehicles impounded," he said. Mr Mbiriri dismissed earlier media reports that vehicles were to be confiscated. "There was an error in earlier report and the correct word is impounded. This would be done by law enforcement agents," he said. Attachments:
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Post by Expat on Jan 4, 2011 18:43:20 GMT
The whole issue about the new number plate system has been hotting up in Zimbabwe. I am to understand that there wont be any fines imposed when you are caught with an old number plate but that you risk your car being impounded on the spot. I dread to think who will drive the car to the pound for you!!!!!
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Post by Expat on Jan 4, 2011 18:45:04 GMT
The new number plates have three letters of the alphabet at the beginning of the registration number, followed by the coat of arms, then four digits. The new registration, which costs US$160, comes with a third plate which must be affixed to the vehicle’s windscreen.
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Post by steppinrazor on Nov 26, 2011 16:24:31 GMT
can you get personalised numberplates in zim still, like 8l1NG (bling) or MLFHNTR (milfhunter). i saw one just the other day written "I AM 666".....
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Post by Expat on May 22, 2014 1:18:57 GMT
You are now able to get personalised plates at a cost of about $1000. One of the most annoying issues surrounding number plates and the vehicle registration is this. When you register a vehicle it allocated a number plate and that is what you have on your log book. However if you then sell on the vehicle the new owner has to go through the process of applying for a new log book and this results in a new number plate being issued to the vehicle. Coming from a society where a car number plate stays the same throughout the vehicles lifecycle I find it odd that such a system is in place where by the number plate is actually attached more to the current owner of the vehicle than the vehicle its self.
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Post by Expat on May 22, 2014 1:21:43 GMT
This is what the Minister had to say in response to these rules
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has made proposals to Government to revert to the system of a vehicle having a single registration number from the first registration to final destruction instead of changing this number with each change of ownership.
“The new vehicle registration number plate was introduced into use from March 1, 2005. Before its adoption, wide consultations were made and to date, we remain satisfied with this new arrangement, which has largely managed to live up to our original expectations,” Minister Goche said.
“May the honourable member appreciate the fact that nowadays, unlike in the past, the vehicle’s registered mark and number is no longer linked to the vehicle, but to the vehicle’s present registered owner. What is now linked to the vehicle as its permanent identity is the chassis number.”
Minister Goche said other countries such as Togo, Puerto Rico, Russia and other states linked to the former Soviet Union, were using the same system, which links a vehicle’s registration number to the registered owner as opposed to the vehicle.
“Government’s main reasons for embracing the present vehicle registration system are to facilitate the re-registration of a vehicle previously registered as either a Government and or a diplomatic vehicle as a private use vehicle and vice versa,” Minister Goche said.
“The system also enables law enforcement authorities to positively identify the person that is or was regarded as the registered owner of a particular vehicle at a particular time during that vehicle’s lifetime, and encourage the new legal owner of a given vehicle to comply with the requirements of the law on the payment of value added tax to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority,” he said.
“The current number plate was now more like a public document that is in the hands of citizens (in this case motorists), but being owned by the state!”
Quizzed about the high cost of the number plates, Minister Goche said Government slashed the prices in 2008.
“My Ministry reduced the selling price of a set of number plates for a motor vehicle from US$200 in 2008 to US$160 in May 2009. In arriving at the current selling price at that time, we had factored the cost of imported raw materials,” he said.
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