Department of Vehicle and Drivers’ Licensing (DVDL) would like to remind the public that suspending registration plates on their cars is a temporary measure designed to last from three months up to the expiration date of the current licence coupon.

“However, if owners haves no plans to continue using the vehicle, then they should terminate the registration,” said DVDL Deputy Director Richard Simms.

He noted that the DVDL now has 4312 suspended plates with the oldest going as far back as 2000 that the Department will be destroying on 31 May 2013. “This is necessary because so many individuals had suspended their vehicle’s registration years ago and have not returned to advise the department of their intention for the vehicle,” Mr. Simms said.

He added, however, that a suspension period may be extended at the owner’s request. According to the Traffic Law 2011, an extension should be applied for at the DVDL one week before a current licence coupon expires. Persons who previously suspended their registration and plates, but whose suspensions have expired are therefore encouraged to visit any DVDL location – on Crewe Road in George Town or in West Bay at Banks Plaza — prior to 31st May to seek extensions.

“If we have not heard from these owners by that date, we’ll be forced to remove the vehicles from the vehicle register and destroy the plates,” Mr Simms said.

For more information on the destruction of suspended registration plates, contact the DVDL at 945-8344.

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An example of the number of plates that DVDL currently have slated to be destroyed.