Your vehicle will no longer bear the year of registration on the number plate.
Starting January 1,2026 the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) will introduce a new vehicle number plate registration system.
Both old and new vehicle owners will go through the process to obtain the new number plates. It is set to help with the easy tracking of vehicles and also to put a check on use of fake number plates in the country.
In Ghana, vehicles with very recent licensed number plates are often highly priced.
DVLA boss, Julius Neequaye Kotey has revealed that the year of registration on vehicle number plates will be replaced with zonal codes early 2026.
For instance, here is how to read the number plate of a car assigned with this registration number, AS 12 MP:
The prefix ‘AS’ references say Ashanti Region’, the region the documentation of the car was done, followed by a unique code of the car then the exact DVLA accredited centre that registered the car. Here ‘MP’ refers to ‘Manhyia Palace’.
With the new arrangements, potential car buyers may have to consider the mileage of the vehicle and possibly look for other critical physical conditions on the car before making final purchase decisions.
DVLA’s Neequaye Kotey said ‘If you want to buy a car this year and leave it till [registration in 2026] so that you have 26 written on it, forget it, you won’t get it. Whether your car is 2022 registered or 2001 registered, we will all have the same format’.
SOURCE: Kasatintin.com
