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Ireland number plate: Temporary ZZ

Issued today 1993 to today. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Revenue Commissioners. One of 7 Ireland number plates.

Ireland license plate, Temporary ZZ (1993 to today), sample ZZ 66022
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Format, years and the law

Format
ZZ 99999, for example ZZ 66022 (9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
1993 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
About this plate
TEMPORARY REGISTRATION FOR NON-RESIDENTS, one month, exportation-bound, administered by the AA of Ireland on Revenue's behalf. PERIOD HONESTY, and this is the weakest date in the file, stated plainly: 1993 is the year the Revenue registration regime commenced and under which Revenue describes ZZ as operating. NO INSTRUMENT PRESCRIBING THE ZZ MARK WAS LOCATED, not in S.I. 318/1992, not in S.I. 60/1993 (read in full), and not in any Vehicle Registration and Taxation amendment 1993-2025 in a year-by-year sweep of the Irish Statute Book. The format is nevertheless firm, because the authority states it in terms.
About the format
FIVE DIGITS EXACTLY, on the authority's own statement, the one series in this file whose digit width IS pinned, and pinned by Revenue rather than by an instrument.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Revenue (the authority): 'The ZZ system of temporary registration is administered by the Automobile Association (AA) of Ireland on behalf of Revenue. A vehicle which is not permanently registered can use a ZZ... https://www.revenue.ie/en/vrt/vehicle-registration-tax/zz-registrations-vintage-vehicles-and-zv-plates.aspx
  2. S.I. No. 60 of 1993, Temporary Exemption from Registration of Vehicles Regulations, 1993, deemed in operation 01-01-1993, made under s. 141(3) Finance Act 1992. READ IN FULL AND IT DOES NOT MENTION ZZ: it sets the... https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1993/si/60/made/en/print

This plate in your app

The series id is ie-temporary-zz. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Ireland's series:

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