Liechtenstein license plate: Provisional Z

Issued today Documented since 1978. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Amt für Strassenverkehr (ASV), Fürstentum Liechtenstein. One of 13 Liechtenstein license plates.

Liechtenstein license plate, Provisional Z (documented since 1978)

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999 Z (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 1978; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
300 × 80 mm · every country's size
About this plate
UNVERZOLLTE FAHRZEUGE, provisional plates for vehicles not yet cleared through customs, marked with an additional Z beside the red bar. The customs mark exists because Liechtenstein sits inside the Swiss customs area, so "not yet cleared" is a real and common status.

Legal basis and sources

  1. VVV Anhang 1a (zu Art. 19) Bst. A Ziff. 3, verbatim: 'Die Schilder für provisorisch immatrikulierte Motorfahrzeuge tragen anschliessend an die Kontrollnummer einen erhaben gepressten, senkrechten roten Balken;... https://www.gesetze.li/konso/html/1978021000

This plate in your app

The series id is li-provisional-z. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Liechtenstein's series:

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