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Western Australia number plate: State series

Issued today 1997 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, 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, State series (1997 to today), sample 4TNC 729
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Format, years and the law

Format
9LLL 999, for example 4TNC 729 (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
1997 to today. Still 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
  • Western Australia (Australia) license plate, State series 254×100 mm (1997 to today)

    State series 254×100 mm

    standard · 254 × 100 mm

  • Western Australia (Australia) license plate, State series 190×100 mm (1997 to today)

    State series 190×100 mm

    standard · 190 × 100 mm

  • Western Australia (Australia) license plate, State series 253×99 mm (1997 to today)

    State series 253×99 mm

    standard · 253 × 99 mm

How numbers are issued
Ascending, and the department says so in terms: "The plates are issued for general use and are manufactured on demand in large quantities in an ascending alpha/numeric series." The 1997 statement's own arithmetic, 1AAA 000 in 1997 to 1ZZZ 999 in 2137, is the reason WA has run ONE general-issue series for nearly thirty years while Victoria and Queensland each changed over: the series was deliberately sized for 140 years. The Minister's stated motive, verbatim: "Until now we have been getting just four or five years from each licence plate series and with the current nine series plates about to expire, Transport was keen to develop something which will provide long-term consistency."

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010058/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Court/1997/07/Unveiling-of-new...
  2. transport.wa.gov.au https://www.transport.wa.gov.au/licensing/plates/standard/state

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-state-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-state-series")'
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