The Department of Transport in Western Australia has revealed it had rejected 876 personalised number plate applications in the 2024-25 financial year because they did not meet the state’s guidelines.
Out of the total 23,000 applications, 3.7 per cent of them did not meet the guidelines as they had inappropriate references to infamous drug rings, firearms, being drunk and even genocide.
Among those rejected were “NVR SOBER”, “CART3L”, “GO FASTER” and “GLOCK45”.
It comes after The West Australian revealed the Department had rejected nearly 1000 inappropriate number plate applications the year prior, including “GEN3CID”, “SAUC3D”, and “RAMP4GE”.
One application referenced a pornography site, “F4K3 T4X1” whilst another made a reference to purchasing drugs.
Department of Transport and WA Police representatives and other stakeholders from various cultural and professional backgrounds assess the custom number plates, and reject those that are offensive, replicate a trademark, encourage dangerous driving or have anti-government messaging.
Applications can also be rejected if the characters are not easily identifiable, cause confusion or look similar to an existing plate.
“Some of the reasons plates have been refused include swear words, offensive acronyms and racist terms, references to drugs and alcohol, sexual references or offensive combinations written backwards or in another language,” a spokesman for the Department of Transport told The West Australian.
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