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Fundraising series

Please see below for the conditions and criteria you will need to meet in order to get your fund-raising plates produced.

Fundraising plate specifications
  • Plate substrate: embossed aluminium or screen printed polycarbonate.

  • Plate size: 372mm * 134mm.

  • Character size: 70mm for aluminium and 55mm for polycarbonate.

  • WA to be embossed or screen printed and centred at the top of the plate.

  • Screen printed logo: colour of your choice.

  • Screen printed slogan: colour of your choice, 12mm high, maximum of 40 characters

  • Aluminium plates: can cater for six embossed characters and one screen printed logo and slogan.

  • Polycarbonate plates: can cater for eight screen printed characters and one screen printed logo and slogan.
The use of colour
  • All plates are a reflective vinyl colouring either as the background or as the character colour.

  • Screen printed colours are matched using the Pantone Matching system.

  • Aluminium plates: Reflective background colours available include; lemon yellow, gold and green. Embossed characters and the border are hot foil stamped. A limited number of foil colours are available. Alternatively the plate background or the embossed characters and border can be screen printed in a colour of your choice.

  • Polycarbonate plates: With polycarbonate plates either the background or characters must be a reflective white colour. The contrasting colour (background or characters) is screen printed the colour of your choice.

Ownership and transfer of Fund-raising plates

A successful applicant will obtain the 'Right to Display' certificate for the pair of number plates. The holder of the 'Right to Display' certificate may offer that right for sale. A sale can take place at any price, to any individual or organisation by transferring the rights of the Fund-raising plates.

Each time a set of Fund-raising plates is transferred Department for Planning and Infrastructure must be notified of the transaction on the prescribed form.

Within 14 days of the execution of transfer by the seller of the 'Right of Display', the seller must lodge with Department for Planning and Infrastructure the following:

  • The duplicate of the instrument of the transfer of the plates.

  • The plates - where the plates in question are not held by Department for Planning and Infrastructure.
  • The 'Right to Display' certificate issued for the plates.


The purchaser of the 'Right to Display' must present to Department for Planning and Infrastructure:

  • The original of the instrument of transfer of the Right to Display the plates, along with the prescribed fee.

  • Notification of the vehicle on which the plates are to be displayed.

  • A copy of State Revenue Department documentation showing that the appropriate stamp duty has been paid on the sale of the right.


Department for Planning and Infrastructure will issue the purchaser with a 'Right to Display' certificate for the plates.

  Fundraiser plate prices

  • A once off $200.00 fee will apply for plate drawings and a sample plate in aluminium or polycarbonate, for the customers approval.

  • Artwork is to be supplied in the form of a colour separated bromide, or on a disc as either a TIFF, JPEG or EPS file.

  • Aluminium plates with hot foil stamped embossed characters on a reflective background will cost $135.00 a pair.

  • Aluminium plates with your choice of colour screen printed background or embossed characters and border will cost $205.00 a pair.

  • Polycarbonate plates with your choice of a screen printed background or characters and border, will cost $270.00.

General conditions

  • Fund-raising plates always remain the property of Department for Planning and Infrastructure.

  • Fund-raising plates must be attached to a currently registered Western Australian motor vehicle, or they will be stored in safe custody at the nearest Licensing Centre to the purchaser.

  • Fundraising plates cannot be attached to a taxi, omnibus or any other vehicle that requires specific identifying number plates allocated by Department for Planning and Infrastructure.

  • Fundraising plates cannot be attached to mopeds or motorcycles.

  • Plates not attached to a Western Australian licensed vehicle will be stored by a licensing centre and a storage fee for each year or part thereof will be charged to the owner of the 'Right to Display' certificate.

  • Fundraising plates cannot contain a logo and numeric characters only.
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For custom plate enquiries:

Phone:
13 11 56

Fax:
(08) 9216 8197

Email:
plates@dpi.wa.gov.au


Department for Planning & Infrastructure