New Zealand number plate: Consular CC

Issued today Documented since 1995. Consular plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (the Registrar of Motor Vehicles under Part 17 of the Land Transport Act 1998). One of 18 New Zealand number plates.

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Format, years and the law

Format: CC999, for example CC446 (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 1995; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class: Consular: consular corps where distinct from diplomatic. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours: Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF

Legal basis and sources

reg 37 and Schedule 4 row 4 https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html
cl 5 table row 3, from 1 July 1995 https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1995/0136/latest/whole.html

This plate in your app

The series id is nz-consular-cc. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Zealand's series:

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

Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-consular-cc.svg
Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-consular-cc/template.svg

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