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Iceland license plate: Standard 2006

Issued today Documented since 2006. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Samgöngustofa (Icelandic Transport Authority). One of 11 Iceland license plates.

Iceland license plate, Standard 2006 (documented since 2006), sample OIF-77
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-99, for example OIF-77 (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 2006; 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, and bus.
Colours
Characters #003399 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Iceland license plate, Standard 2006 280×200 mm (documented since 2006)

    Standard 2006 280×200 mm

    standard · 280 × 200 mm

  • Iceland license plate, Standard 2006 240×130 mm (documented since 2006)

    Standard 2006 240×130 mm

    standard · 240 × 130 mm

  • Iceland license plate, Standard 2006 305×155 mm (documented since 2006)

    Standard 2006 305×155 mm

    standard · 305 × 155 mm

About this plate
Secondary sources date this to 2007 essentially unanimously. The instrument is reglugerð nr. The 2007 story is not baseless, merely mistargeted: the only 2007 amendment to 751/2003 is reglugerð 1231/2007, which concerns the age-65 restriction on renewing a personalised plate. It is possible that first ISSUANCE of three-letter marks lagged into 2007, and 691/2006 contains no first-issue wording either way; but a legal date is pinned and an issuance date is not, so the pinned one is recorded and this note carries the caveat. This shape is the ONLY era signal an Icelandic plate carries: three letters means on or after 25 July 2006.

Legal basis and sources

  1. reglugerð nr. 691/2006, set 25 July 2006, 'öðlast þegar gildi'; 2. gr.: 'Við 3. mgr. 4. gr. bætist: eða þrír bókstafir og tveir tölustafir', and 'Síðasti stafur í fastanúmeri skal vera tölustafir'. THE DATING INSTRUMENT. https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/691-2006
  2. 18.-19. gr. for the design, which this shape shares unchanged. https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/751-2003
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Iceland

This plate in your app

The series id is is-standard-2006. 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-2006")'
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