Source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/5/5/nation/14153618&sec=nation
Friday May 5, 2006
Personalised number plates
By HAMDAN RAJA ABDULLAH
SEGAMAT: Malaysians will soon get to have personalised registration number plates for their vehicles, by paying an extra fee.
However, there are still some finer details which we need to look into before Malaysians can apply to have their own personalised registration number plates, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy said here.
We are also looking into the formats for the plate, whether to allow names, numbers or both, he said after opening the Segamat Road Transport Department branch office here yesterday.
The Road Transport Department (JPJ) has submitted the proposal to the ministry for evaluation.
Chan said JPJ, which provided services to about 30 million people a year, was among the busiest government departments in the country, and it had to continually improve its delivery system.
He said the department had succeeded in implementing several electronic or E-systems such as the E-Registration, E-insurance and E-ownership for all vehicles.
Chan added that by the end of the year or early next year, several more E-systems would be introduced including E-enforcement, E-health, E-plate and E-kiosk.
He said these were aimed at making the department more efficient in providing services to the public, adding that, last year alone, more than one million vehicles were registered.
The department had also opened up 11 new branch offices throughout the country since 2003, and, more would be built under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, said Chan.
To a question on Singapore weekend visitors who drove into the country, Chan said that as long as the vehicles had valid road taxes, it was within the law.
He said the law required all foreign vehicles to have valid road taxes to travel in the country.
for everyone to get it done. That must have been really hectic, but for this case it is not the same. But anyway, just curious, how did you foresee such things would happen? From my observation, they (not just JPJ, the military too) don’t even bother to stop cars using super unique plate numbers like ‘1’ or even ‘2’, with heavily tinted windshields for fearing of pissing-off some Datuks or royal bloodlines.