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Reimburse Motorists Who Paid For Number Plates In US$ - High Court

2 years agoSat, 17 Apr 2021 06:10:26 GMT
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Reimburse Motorists Who Paid For Number Plates In US$ - High Court

The government has been ordered to reimburse motorists who paid for new vehicle registration plates in foreign currency (US$) since July last year but failed to get them.

High Court judge Justice Webster Chinamhora Wednesday ordered the government to stop charging for the vehicle registration plates in United States dollars.

The ruling was made after a motorist, Mfundo Mlilo, represented by Tendai Biti, challenged the decision by the Transport Ministry to charge US$80 for a set of vehicle registration plates saying it was unjustified as the country was officially transacting in Zimbabwe dollars.

Biti confirmed the ruling in a tweet:

Pursuant to an application we filed in October 2020, the High Court today set aside SI [Statutory Instrument] 161 of 2020 which obliged payment of vehicle plates in US$. Justice Chinhamora ruled that Min of Transport had no power of levying charges in US$. Govt must now refund motorists.

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Mlilo approached the High Court in October last year, a month after his imported Subaru car was impounded by the Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) for failing to display registration plates.

He was ordered to pay US$80 in order to get temporary plates and an additional $100 for inspection before his car was released. In his application, Mlilo said:

The impounding of my vehicle without a court order and without due process was wrong and unlawful, this in the first part of this application I seek a declaratory to the effect that in impounding my vehicle without warranty and without an order of court as he did on September 21, 2020, the respondent acted unlawfully.

The first respondent (Transport minister) is thus running a (money) raising scam in respect of which he is levying and collecting US$ for number plates and in the process, huge amounts of money.

Mlilo argued that the sole legal currency operating in Zimbabwe was the Zimbabwe dollar, also commonly referred to as Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) as the government declared in June of 2019.

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