Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has stipulated five mandatory conditions for motorcycle owners attaching manual number plates to the front of their vehicles.
The guidelines follow the authority’s decision to extend the deadline for installing front manual number plates to 31 December, moving the earlier deadline of 15 November.
The details were announced in a public notice published on the BRTA’s official Facebook page on Wednesday.
Under the Road Transport Act, 2018 and the Road Transport Rules, 2022, displaying registration numbers on both the front and rear sections of motorcycles is compulsory.
Motorcycle owners are required to attach the manual number plates to the front under their own management in accordance with the prescribed rules.
The five conditions specified by BRTA are:
- Plate material: The manual number plate must be constructed from stainless steel or aluminium.
- Colour and lettering: The registration number must be written in black Bengali letters and digits set against a white background.
- Design restrictions: No decorative patterns or other embellishments are permitted on the number plate.
- Scooter dimensions: For scooters, the number plate must measure 200 millimetres in length and 100 millimetres in width, with letter and number font heights of at least 20 millimetres.
- Dimensions for other motorcycles: For motorcycles other than scooters, the plate length must be 285 millimetres and the width 50 millimetres, with font heights also measuring at least 20 millimetres. Additionally, the registration mark must be displayed along a single horizontal line (e.g. Dhaka Metro-L-11-1229).
BRTA has urged all motorcycle owners to install front manual number plates complying with these specified conditions within extended timeframe.
