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India license plate: Diplomatic CD

Issued today 1989 to today. Diplomatic plates for car and van, issued by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India. One of 16 India license plates.

India license plate, Diplomatic CD (1989 to today), sample 91 CD 328
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Format, years and the law

Format
99 CD 999, for example 91 CD 328 (9 any digit)

CD is the international corps diplomatique code; the leading number is the mission's, allotted by the Ministry of External Affairs, the trailing one the vehicle's. The ladder decodes further: 1 is the ambassador's official car, 1A and 1B the ambassador's personal ones.

CD
Corps diplomatique (diplomatic corps)

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
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #00338D
Size
410 × 140 mm · every country's size
How the region is encoded
NO GEOGRAPHY AND NO STATE CODE.
How numbers are issued
Rule 76(6)(i)-(vi) is an allocation ladder, and it decodes: "1" is the head of mission's official car; "1A", "1B" … are the head of mission's personal cars; official vehicles other than the head's start at "2"; then other officers' vehicles; then vehicles acquired by the mission or by non-head diplomatic officers, "irrespective of whether such vehicle is for official or personal use". Numbers freed by sale or export may be reissued within the same clause.

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20211130113450id_/https://morth.nic.in/sites/default/files/CMVR-chapter3.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is in-diplomatic-cd-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-diplomatic-cd-1989")'
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