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The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has announced a GH¢25 charge for owners of vehicles registered before 2023 to have their records migrated onto the Authority’s digital system.
The directive applies to vehicles that were manually registered prior to the introduction of the digital registration framework.
Speaking on the exercise, the Director of Driver Training, Testing and Licensing at the DVLA, Kafui Semevo, explained that the digitisation process is intended to verify ownership of older vehicles and prevent uncustomed vehicles from being captured in the system.
He stated that vehicle owners will be required to personally visit DVLA offices or designated centres with their vehicles, registration documents, customs declaration forms and Ghana Card for biometric verification.
Kafui Semevo encouraged owners who are yet to be enrolled on the digital platform to take advantage of the exercise, noting that successful onboarding will allow them to obtain a vehicle title certificate and an electronic registration card.
He added that these documents will become mandatory once the new licence plate policy is fully implemented.
According to him, the verification of documents and vehicles attracts no cost, stressing that the GH¢25 fee applies strictly to biometric data verification.
“The onboarding process itself, verifying the documents, verifying the vehicle and saying it is okay in our records, you don’t pay for it. But the bio-data verification is at a cost, which is GH¢25,” he explained.
He further noted that charging now for title certificates and registration cards would result in vehicle owners paying twice, since the documents would later need to be reissued under the new numbering system.
Kafui Semevo also clarified that vehicles registered between January 2022 and December 2023 are not yet part of the onboarding exercise, advising owners of such vehicles to wait for official communication from the DVLA before proceeding.
