Why was my combination rejected or deemed inappropriate?

We comply with strict guidelines from the Department of Transport and Main Roads and we think it’s best to keep it clean on our roads. A Personalised Plate is an official form of identification so every combination must be assessed against a number of criteria.

"Unacceptable" plates include: 

• Obscene or indecent combinations or captions. Including those of a sexually explicit nature.
• Plates that are contrary to the public interest.
• Plates likely to cause offence to a reasonable person.
• Plates that may infringe a third party’s rights or constitute false or misleading representation or conduct.
• Plates promoting unsafe, violent or harmful behaviour, particularly on the roads, and Plates referencing weapons.
• Plates referencing the consumption of alcohol or including alcohol related content.
• Plates promoting illegal drugs or criminal activity. 
• Plates that are propagandistic, discriminatory, or could offend a reasonable person or members or citizens of a distinct culture or a particular religion, nation, race, or minority status.
• Plates that could be considered offensive to Government Departments.
• Plates including content that may be defamatory, in breach of any laws, regulations, rules, codes or otherwise objectionable in the absolute discretion of PPQ.
• Plate Content that infringes, or potentially infringes, any third party’s rights including intellectual property rights and/or implies or falsely represents a connection with any third party business.
• Plates that create ambiguity in identification of a vehicle or enable mistaken recognition of a vehicle and/or its occupants. Including but not limited to Taxi, Police or ambulance.

PPQ reserves the right to reject submitted plate orders deemed unacceptable and these plates will attract a cancellation fee of $100.

We’re not the fun police so if you have something fun and cheeky in mind but you're unsure if it's "appropriate", give us a call on 136 356 and we can have a chat. We'd love to hear from you!