India license plate: Consular CC 1989
Retired 1989 to 2017. Consular plates for car and van, issued by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India. One of 16 India license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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99 CC 999, for example9 CC 12(9 any digit)CC is the international corps consulaire code. The number ahead of it names the consular post, allotted by the Ministry of External Affairs; the number after it names the vehicle. Yellow ground until 2017, easy to misread as a taxi.
- CC
- Corps consulaire (consular corps)
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1989 to 2017. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Consular: consular corps where distinct from diplomatic. Issued for car and van.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFD200 - Size
- 410 × 140 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE OLD CONSULAR PLATE, yellow with black characters, which is why an Indian consular car of that era is easy to mistake for a taxi at a distance.
Legal basis and sources
- web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20211130113450id_/https://morth.nic.in/sites/default/files/CMVR-chapter3.pdf
- web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20210514203127id_/https://morth.nic.in/sites/default/files/notifications_document/Notific...
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is in-consular-cc-1989. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of India's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/in \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "in-consular-cc-1989")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/in/in-consular-cc-1989.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/in/in-consular-cc-1989/template.svg
