Malaysia license plate: Diplomatic DC
Issued today 1987 to today. Diplomatic plates for car, issued by Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan Malaysia (JPJ). One of 8 Malaysia license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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99-99-DC, for example30-21-DC(9 any digit)- marking: Diplomatic Corps
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1987 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car.
- Colours
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Characters
#FFFFFFBackground#CC0000 - About this plate
- DIPLOMATIC CORPS. TWO INDEPENDENT AUTHORITIES SOURCE THIS PLATE and they agree, which is rare: JPJ (the road authority) publishes the red plate as one of the three permitted plate forms, and Wisma Putra (the foreign ministry) publishes the allocation rules and the red/black split. What is sourced: the colours, the red-for-person / black-for-institution rule, and the complete RANK-TO-NUMBER table. What is NOT sourced: the country-code table and the exact printed group order, which come from secondary accounts. Wisma Putra para 6.5 also gives Malaysia a small cherished-number rule of its own, a diplomat "is required to retain the number plate even when he disposes [of the car] after 18 months or more as the same number will be given to his new car".
- About the format
- Country code, rank/serial number, and the literal DC.
Legal basis and sources
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Malaysia (Wisma Putra), 'MOTOR VEHICLES' paras 6.4 (the full DC rank allocation table), 6.5 (a diplomat keeps his DC number across vehicles), 6.6 (second car 60-99), 6.7 (chargés d'affaires... https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163606/http://www.kln.gov.my/web/guest/diplomat
- JPJ, verbatim: 'White alphabets and numbers, embossed or glued on a red plate for vehicles belonging to embassies, the UN and the International Natural Rubber Association.', the ROAD AUTHORITY's own statement of the... https://web.archive.org/web/20130516074518/http://www.jpj.gov.my/web/eng/specifications-of-vehicle-number-plates
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Malaysia
This plate in your app
The series id is my-diplomatic-dc. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Malaysia's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/my \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "my-diplomatic-dc")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/my/my-diplomatic-dc.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/my/my-diplomatic-dc/template.svg
