NTSA Warns Against Fake Number Plates

The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) Monday issued a public notice warning Kenyans against customizing their number plates.

NTSA says the action by a section of motor vehicle owners was in violation of Rule 5(a) of the Traffic (Registration Plates) Rules 2016.

The 2016 Traffic Act stipulates that a vehicle’s registration shall be rectangular, have each letter and number on the plate consisting of optically recognizable characters.

The characters are also required to be 75 millimetres high and each part of the letter and number must be at least 15 millimetres broad. The Act prescribes the total width taken up by each letter to be 47.5 mm and the numbers 44.5mm except for the letter ‘I’ and number ‘1’.

According to the 2016 Traffic Act, “a person who contravenes any of the provision of these rules, for which no specific penalty is provided in the Act shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or both.”