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Iceland license plate: Standard 1989

Issued today 1989 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Samgöngustofa (Icelandic Transport Authority). One of 11 Iceland license plates.

Iceland license plate, Standard 1989 (1989 to today), sample PR-570
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999, for example PR-570 (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
1989 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #003399 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Iceland license plate, Standard 1989 280×200 mm (1989 to today)

    Standard 1989 280×200 mm

    standard · 280 × 200 mm

  • Iceland license plate, Standard 1989 240×130 mm (1989 to today)

    Standard 1989 240×130 mm

    standard · 240 × 130 mm

  • Iceland license plate, Standard 1989 305×155 mm (1989 to today)

    Standard 1989 305×155 mm

    standard · 305 × 155 mm

Region code notes
NONE, and by design: severing the number from the owner's district was the entire point of the 1989 reform. A modern Icelandic plate encodes no geography whatsoever.
How numbers are issued
NONE. The fastanúmer is "valið af handahófi" (4. gr.), chosen at random, not issued in sequence, so no age, region or class can be inferred from the characters.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 4. gr. 3. mgr. (two letters + three digits, chosen at random); 18. gr. (types, dimensions, aluminium, þjóðarmerki); 19. gr. (white reflective ground, blue border/characters/bandstrik); 37. gr. (gildistaka). https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/751-2003
  2. 34. gr.: 'Ökutæki sem skráð voru fyrir 1. janúar 1989 mega áfram bera skráningarmerki af eldri gerð', the boundary that dates this series, plus the 1997/1998 sunsets on the old plates. https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/78-1997
  3. the 1989 cutover instrument, set 15 December 1988, CITED FOR THE GAP: body text absent ('Texti ekki kominn'), no date fields published, commencement clause unverified. https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/523-1988
  4. umferðarlög nr. 50/1987, 64. gr.: 'Ráðherra setur reglur um: ... c. skráningarmerki'; the act took effect 1 March 1988. https://www.althingi.is/lagas/149c/1987050.html

Before and after

Iceland license plate, District (1938 to 1989) It replaced District 1938 to 1989

This plate in your app

The series id is is-standard-1989. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Iceland's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/is \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "is-standard-1989")'
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