Mauritius Application for Registration Mark (National Land Transport Authority)

Candidate selection

GOV-4610 ("GovSchema Standard Research"). Mauritius opened as the registry's 92nd jurisdiction via mu/pio/passport-application (GOV-4603), which banked three further STRONG verticals as open backlog: DMV (vehicle registration), Business Formation, and Visa. This schema authors the DMV candidate that same cycle had already independently byte-verified: the National Land Transport Authority's "Application for Registration Mark", nlta.govmu.org/Documents/Downloads/Procedures%20Forms/Application%20Form%20Reg%20Mark.pdf. Per the GOV-4603 record, the driving-licence half of Mauritius's DMV vertical (Police Form PF31) is in-person-only with no downloadable PDF found on police.govmu.org, and the online learner-licence channel carries a standing govmu.org notice that it remains "temporarily out of service due to Covid 19 Pandemic" — both confirmed dead ends this cycle by re-checking the same two sources fresh (no change). This candidate is therefore scoped to vehicle registration-mark allocation only, not driver's-licence issuance.

Reaching the live source

https://nlta.govmu.org/Documents/Downloads/Procedures%20Forms/Application%20Form%20Reg%20Mark.pdf

• Plain unauthenticated curl request (with -L to follow redirects), no session/cookie state, no CAPTCHA/WAF challenge.
• HTTP 200, 598,726 bytes retrieved.
• sha256 of the retrieved bytes: dc757ea9fbb495b9a00117cb04d37a63a90729f51ed6e63bffbdea99d462df89.
• 1 page, confirmed via pdfjs-dist's numPages.
• getAnnotations() returned 0 annotations and getTextContent() returned 0 text items — a flat, scanned/rasterized image embedded in the PDF, not an interactive AcroForm and not a text-layer specimen.

Authority attribution

The document's own header reads "NATIONAL LAND TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, MSI BUILDING, ROYAL ROAD, LES CASSIS, PORT LOUIS", and is hosted directly on the Authority's own domain (nlta.govmu.org). authority is attributed to the National Land Transport Authority (abbreviation NLTA) directly.

Extraction method

Since neither the text-content nor annotation layers yielded anything (a pure scanned-image PDF), the single page was rendered to a 1488x2104 PNG at 2.5x scale via pdfjs-dist + the vendored node-canvas build (per this registry's own gov-form-pdf-extraction precedent for image-only specimens) and read visually. The scan is clean and high-contrast — every label, box grid, and checkbox is legibly rendered with no glyph-rendering failures of the kind this registry has seen on other rasterized specimens.

Document structure

A single page, five numbered items plus an "OFFICIAL USE" box and a closing "NOTE TO APPLICANTS":

• Item 1 — "Full name and address of applicant (Applicable for individual applicants)": (a) Title, (b) Surname (Block letters), (c) Other names (Block letters), (d) Permanent address (Block letters, three ruled lines), (e) National Identity Card Number.
• Item 2 — "Full name and address of applicant (Applicable for registered companies, etc.)": (a) Name (Block letters), (b) Address (Block letters, three ruled lines), (c) Registered Corporate Number.
• Item 3 — "Name of dealer from which the vehicle is to be purchased (Block letters)".
• Item 4 — "Who will be effecting the registration of the vehicle? (Please tick as appropriate)": Dealer / Purchaser / Other (please specify), three checkbox-style options printed inline.
• Item 5 — "Declaration": "I apply for registration mark ______"; "I undertake to purchase / reserve * the registration mark upon approval of the request. (* Delete as appropriate)"; "I, ......, declare that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the particulars given above are true and correct."; "Signature of applicant: .......... Status: .......... (Applicable for registered companies only)"; "Date: [Date][Month][Year]".
• OFFICIAL USE (excluded in its entirety, officer-only): Received on, Receipt No, Name of Officer, Signature of Officer, Approved by Deputy Road Transport Commissioner, Date Approved.
• NOTE TO APPLICANTS (informational, not a field): instructs applicants to ensure particulars in Item 1 or 2 are accurate, and states the NLTA reserves the right not to allocate a Registration Mark without prejudice to the applicant.

Scope: fields and sections excluded

• The "OFFICIAL USE" box in its entirety — Received on, Receipt No, Name and Signature of Officer, Deputy Road Transport Commissioner approval and date — all filled by NLTA staff, not the applicant, the same "officer-only, not applicant-supplied data" convention this registry applies elsewhere (e.g. mu/pio/passport-application's own excluded "OFFICIAL USE" boxes).
• The "NOTE TO APPLICANTS" closing text — informational only, no blank or box to complete.

Scope: judgment calls on requiredness

This source carries no asterisk/mandatory-marking convention at all (its one asterisk, on Item 5's "purchase / reserve *", is a delete-as- appropriate instruction, not a required-field marker), so requiredness was assigned by engineering judgment:

1. applicantType discriminator, not itself a printed field. The form provides two mutually exclusive sections captioned "Applicable for individual applicants" and "Applicable for registered companies, etc.". Modelled the same way as tt/rgd/partnership-beneficial-ownership-statement's declarantCategory — an explicit selector gating which section's fields are requiredWhen that value, rather than making both sections' fields unconditionally optional.
2. individualTitle modelled as free text, not an enum. Unlike mu/pio/passport-application's title field, this specimen prints no enumerated options (Mr/Mrs/Miss) next to the boxed letters — just a run of blank boxes captioned "Title" — so this schema does not invent options the source does not itself show.
3. individualPermanentAddress/companyAddress modelled as a single free-text field, not split into line1/line2/line3. The three ruled lines beneath each caption carry no distinct sub-labels (e.g. street/town/district) on this specimen, unlike some other registry address fields that do print such sub-captions — modelled here matching this form's own undifferentiated layout.
4. dealerName modelled optional. Item 3 is not gated on Item 4's answer anywhere on the form, and Item 4 itself offers "Purchaser" and "Other" as alternatives to "Dealer", implying a dealer is not always party to the transaction (e.g. a private resale or personal import of an already-registered vehicle needing a new mark) — so this field is not marked unconditionally required.
5. registeringParty/registrationMarkApplied/undertakingType/ declarantFullName/signatureOfApplicant/declarationDate modelled required, as the form's own core operative content (which the declaration explicitly swears to and which the Authority needs to process any registration-mark request), consistent with this registry's standard approach of treating a document's own declaration/signature block as required absent contrary evidence.
6. signatoryStatus gated required on applicantType = company, matching the field's own printed qualifier, "(Applicable for registered companies only)".

Conformance

2 mock scenarios were reasoned through by hand against this schema's own fields[] conditions (not committed as fixture files, following this registry's own precedent for single flat-image DMV/short-form specimens, e.g. tt/rgd/partnership-beneficial-ownership-statement): (1) an individual applicant buying a used car directly from another private individual with no dealer involved, self-registering — applicantType = individual requires individualTitle/individualSurname/ individualOtherNames/individualPermanentAddress/ individualNationalIdentityCardNumber; companyName/companyAddress/ companyRegisteredCorporateNumber and signatoryStatus correctly not required; dealerName left blank (optional); registeringParty = purchaser, so registeringPartyOtherSpecify not required; (2) a registered company purchasing a new vehicle from a named dealer, with the dealer effecting registration — applicantType = company requires companyName/companyAddress/companyRegisteredCorporateNumber and signatoryStatus; the individual-track fields correctly not required; dealerName populated; registeringParty = dealer. Every requiredWhen condition in this schema (applicantType twice, registeringParty) was exercised at least once true and once false across the two scenarios.

Validated clean with node tools/validate.mjs and node tools/validate-ajv.mjs (ajv 2020-12 against spec/v0.3/govschema.schema.json). registry-index.json regenerated via npm run build-index in tools/govschema-client/.

Models 18 fields[] across 4 steps. No documents[] entries — this specimen discloses no supporting-document checklist anywhere on its single page, unlike this registry's other Mauritius schema (mu/pio/passport-application), which does print one.