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Northern Territory number plate: Standard numeric

Retired 1979 to 2011. 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 numeric (1979 to 2011), sample 357 548
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 999, for example 357 548 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
1979 to 2011. 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
THE NT'S THIRTY-TWO-YEAR NUMERIC GENERAL ISSUE, and the single most useful era signal in the jurisdiction: any NT plate with a letter in it is 2011 or later; any all-numeric NT plate is 2011 or earlier. DELIBERATELY NOT AUTHORED, for the usual reason (no primary, uncited secondary): the white-on-black five-numeral series of 1953-1979, the pre-1953 NT band plates, and the separate Central Australia / Northern Australia plates of 1927-1933. They are L4 work and the article is the only source for any of them.
How numbers are issued
Reported: the NT ran FIVE numerals from 1953, "by the 1970s it reached 100-000 so a 6-digit version was added", and the six-numeral form ran from the 1979 colour change until the 2011 alphanumeric changeover. Reported reserved blocks, recorded and not authored as series: NT Government vehicles 800-000 to 899-999 (with NTG embossed at the left of the plate), government motorcycles 80-000 to 85-999, and an MO 8-000 series for Darwin buses.

Legal basis and sources

  1. NONE of these carries a footnote in the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northern_Territory

Before and after

Northern Territory (Australia) license plate, Standard (2011 to today) Replaced by Standard 2011 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is au-nt-standard-numeric. 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-numeric")'
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