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Australian Capital Territory number plate: Standard

Issued today 1998 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Road Transport Authority (ACT), through Access Canberra. One of 3 Australian Capital Territory number plates.

Australian Capital Territory (Australia) license plate, Standard (1998 to today), sample YRW 82L
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Format, years and the law

Format
YLL 99L, for example YRW 82L (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
1998 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
ACT GENERAL ISSUE, SECOND-GENERATION Y SERIES. The SHAPE is safe and the DATE is not, and the two are tagged separately on purpose. What the agency actually confirms: that the Y series is the standard issue, who is excluded from it, what colour it is, and that replacements come in sequence. What no ACT government source obtained states: when the three-letters/two-numerals/ one-letter arrangement replaced the three-letters/three-numerals one. When an agency date lands, the dated id is added and this becomes its former-id alias. RECORDED GAPS: the ACT issues plates to "public, government, diplomatic or heavy" vehicles on series the agency names but never describes, none is authored; and no motorcycle or trailer grammar was found anywhere (s 49(2)(b) proves those vehicles get at least one plate and says nothing about what is on it).
How numbers are issued
Reported: the second-generation Y arrangement (three letters then two numerals then a letter) began when the first-generation YLL 999 series was exhausted, and blocks have been allocated to optional slogans (YGA-00A onward for the Centenary slogan; YKQ and YLP blocks for the 2015 "AN AGE FRIENDLY CITY" slogan). Those are VALUES inside this shape, not different shapes, and none is encoded.

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20181003140711/https://www.accesscanberra.act.gov.au/app/answers/detail/a_id/2125/~/act-n...
  2. Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulation 2000 (ACT) s 49: two plates for a motor vehicle, at least one for a motorbike, motortrike or trailer, the plate COUNT is statutory even though the format is not https://www.legislation.act.gov.au/DownloadFile/sl/2000-12/current/PDF/2000-12.PDF
  3. The 1998 date carries NO citation in the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Australian_Capital_Territory

Before and after

Australian Capital Territory (Australia) license plate, Standard Y (1968 to 1998) It replaced Standard Y 1968 to 1998

This plate in your app

The series id is au-act-standard. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Australian Capital Territory's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/au-act \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "au-act-standard")'
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