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Western Australia number plate: District series

Issued today Documented since 1997. Standard plates for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Department of Transport and Major Infrastructure (Driver and Vehicle Services), Western Australia. One of 3 Western Australia number plates.

Western Australia (Australia) license plate, District series (documented since 1997), sample RK 483
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999, for example RK 483 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
Documented since 1997; 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, motorcycle, and trailer.
Size
372 × 134 mm · every country's size
About this plate
WA DISTRICT SERIES, THE ONE GEOGRAPHIC DECODE IN AUSTRALIAN PLATES, AND IT IS DELIBERATELY LEFT AS A MECHANISM. The department states the mechanism plainly and gives a single example; it publishes no code table. The period is an UPPER BOUND for an unusual reason worth stating: the department's own page dates nothing except a 2021 administrative change ("Eligible District series number plates can be converted to a District series optional plate from Monday 13 December 2021"), and the only era boundary it draws is the Brand WA colourway, which is the 1997 boundary the state series carries. So 1997 here means "this series was running by then", not "it started then", district plates are much older.
Who can have one
the department, verbatim: 'These plates can be issued to motor vehicles, trailers and motorcycles owned by persons who reside in that Shire or District.', a RESIDENCE test, which is what makes the prefix a real geographic claim rather than decoration

Legal basis and sources

  1. transport.wa.gov.au https://www.transport.wa.gov.au/licensing/plates/standard/district

Before and after

Western Australia (Australia) license plate, Standard (1978 to 1997) It replaced Standard 1978 to 1997

This plate in your app

The series id is au-wa-district-series. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Western Australia's series:

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