Ireland number plate: Trade
Issued today Documented since 1993. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Revenue Commissioners. One of 7 Ireland number plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999-LL-99, for example295-DA-95(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- Documented since 1993; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
- About this plate
- It is also the file's clearest example of an evidence ceiling: the statute is completely explicit about WHAT the plate must say and completely silent about what it must LOOK LIKE, because the look is delegated to two diagrams that exist only as artwork. The composition, the annual re-issue, the display rules and the lawful uses are all primary; the group order and the colours are not, and both are marked. WORTH KNOWING for a parse API: art. 7(2) means a trade plate NEVER replaces a registration on an already-registered vehicle, it sits in the window alongside the real plate, so a photograph can lawfully show two different marks on one car. And the trade table is the reason the Tipperary "T" exists in Irish law at all: it entered through trade licences in 2013, not through the registration regulations, which have never been amended to carry it.
Legal basis and sources
- S.I. No. 409 of 1992, Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1992: art. 2 'These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1993'; arts. 6-9 the trade... https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1992/si/409/made/en/print
- S.I. No. 328 of 2013: substitutes art. 6(3)(a) with the index-mark/placename table, deletes art. 6(3)(c), and applies 'to trade licences issued for 2014 and subsequent years'. Explanatory note: 'These Regulations... https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2013/si/328/made/en/print
- S.I. No. 243 of 2014: substitutes that table again for the merged authority names; 'shall apply to trade licences issued on or after 01 June 2014'. https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2014/si/243/made/en/print
- S.I. No. 311 of 1982: the definition the trade licence hangs on, 'trade licence' means a general licence issued under section 9 of the Roads Act, 1920, as amended by section 15 of the Finance Act, 1922, and the 1982... https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1982/si/311/made/en/print
This plate in your app
The series id is ie-trade-1993. 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-trade-1993")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ie/ie-trade-1993.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ie/ie-trade-1993/template.svg
