South Australia number plate: Standard
Issued today Documented since 2008. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Department for Infrastructure and Transport (South Australia). One of 3 South Australia number plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L999 LLL(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
- Documented since 2008; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- Colours
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Background
#FFFFFF - Size
- 372 × 134 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S CURRENT GENERAL ISSUE, WITH ITS START YEAR IN DISPUTE AND THE DISPUTE RECORDED RATHER THAN SPLIT. Either way the changeover sits in a two-year window and neither source is the department.
- How numbers are issued
- ascending through the three-letter suffix behind a fixed numeric block; no departmental progression statement exists
Legal basis and sources
- The ONLY South Australian government page found that describes the general issue at all https://web.archive.org/web/20041206044325/http://www.transport.sa.gov.au/registrations/number_plates/alpha.asp
- plateshack.com http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/South_Australia/southaustralia.htm
- Uncited in the article; used as a finding aid and flagged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_South_Australia
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is au-sa-standard. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of South Australia's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/au-sa \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "au-sa-standard")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/au-sa/au-sa-standard.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/au-sa/au-sa-standard/template.svg