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Northern Territory number plate: Standard

Issued today 2011 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Motor Vehicle Registry (MVR), for the Registrar of Motor Vehicles (Northern Territory). One of 5 Northern Territory number plates.

Northern Territory (Australia) license plate, Standard (2011 to today), sample CG 16 MW
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Format, years and the law

Format
CL 99 LL, for example CG 16 MW (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
2011 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
THE NORTHERN TERRITORY'S FIRST ALPHANUMERIC GENERAL ISSUE, AND A TEXTBOOK THREE-DATE ROLLOUT. The secondary source gives three different dates for one series and they are all real: ANNOUNCED 23 October 2009 (by an NT Government media release), UNVEILED January 2011, AVAILABLE FOR ISSUE June 2011.
How numbers are issued
ascending; the second character advances first, on the reported evidence of plates observed in the CA and CC blocks

Legal basis and sources

  1. Northern Territory Government, read via the Internet Archive 2026-08-02: 'You will be given a general issue plate unless you want to apply for personalised plates', the agency's confirmation that a general-issue class... https://nt.gov.au/driving/registration/number-plates-apply-or-transfer-plates
  2. The article cites an NT Government newsroom media release for the 2009 announcement; that URL is DEAD and its archive.today copy returned HTTP 429 on 2026-08-02, the citation was chased and not reached https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northern_Territory
  3. this programme's own pinned research appendix, §2.5: an independent capture of the NT's 'Ca·nn·aa' format and 'ochre on white' colours. Corroboration, not a source of record https://vehiclesdb-pipeline/aux/research/plates-2026-07/plates-research-us-world.md

Before and after

Northern Territory (Australia) license plate, Standard numeric (1979 to 2011) It replaced Standard numeric 1979 to 2011

This plate in your app

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

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