New rules when renewing your car licence

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Regulation 32A of the National Road Traffic Regulations will go live on 1 November 2015, meaning anyone wanting to renew their vehicle licences must provide the traffic department with updated proof of identity and address particulars.

Regulation 25(7) has also been amended to authorise the refusal of the issue of a licence disc if a person has not provided proof of their physical and postal address by the insertion of Regulation 25(7)(i).

This means that all natural and juristic persons (companies, etc.) will have to furnish the following information in order to register vehicles, renew licence discs, driving licenses, etc:

1. Their full names, date of birth, identity number, and business registration number, along with any form of acceptable identification

2. Proof of postal and residential address, by means of any utility account. Provided that in the case where the person is not the person in whose name the utility account is issued, the person in whose name the utility account is issued must make an affidavit or affirmation declaring that the person resides at the address and the affidavit or affirmation must be accompanied by the utility account of such person.

3. In the case of a person who resides at an informal settlement, a letter with an official date stamp from the ward councillor confirming the postal and residential address of such person.

In addition, persons complying with these requirements must complete an NCP form and furnish it along with the above. This form is available at all licensing authorities.