Queensland number plate: Standard 3N3L

Retired 1977 to 2020. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Department of Transport and Main Roads (Queensland). One of 4 Queensland number plates.

Queensland (Australia) license plate, Standard 3N3L (1977 to 2020), sample 939 IOM

Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 939 IOM (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
1977 to 2020. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Size
372 × 134 mm · every country's size
How numbers are issued
ascending through the three-letter suffix; the Minister's 2018 statement places the run at the Y block ('My department has started issuing Y series plates and we expect the Z series will start being issued next year and run into early 2020'), which is an agency-published serial-to-year anchor of the kind almost no jurisdiction gives

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20180701170407/http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/2018/7/1/new-combination-seals-quee...
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Queensland

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is au-qld-standard-3n3l. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Queensland's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/au-qld \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "au-qld-standard-3n3l")'