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Australian Capital Territory number plate: Standard Y

Retired 1968 to 1998. 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 Y (1968 to 1998), sample YHG 552
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Format, years and the law

Format
YLL 999, for example YHG 552 (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
1968 to 1998. No longer 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
YAA was set aside for recalls of numericals." Different month, different opening combination. The all-numeric ACT series that ran to 1968 (reported "from 1 to 99-935 ... in white on navy blue") is NOT authored: the agency says only that a numeric series existed, and everything else about it is uncited.
How numbers are issued
ascending from YAA-000; secondary sources report it reached YZZ-999 in early 1996 and then back-filled unused blocks (YKL onward) before ending at YLZ-999

Legal basis and sources

  1. The new numberplates commenced at "YAA-000" in accordance with the agreement for a uniform Australia wide system. The first "Y" series numberplates featured blue lettering on a reflective white background.', the... https://web.archive.org/web/20181003140711/https://www.accesscanberra.act.gov.au/app/answers/detail/a_id/2125/~/act-n...
  2. The END is the article's, uncited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Australian_Capital_Territory

Before and after

Australian Capital Territory (Australia) license plate, Standard (1998 to today) Replaced by Standard 1998 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is au-act-standard-y-1968. 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-y-1968")'
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