New Zealand number plate: Consular ccc

Issued today Documented since 1995. Consular plates for motorcycle, moped, and trailer, 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.

New Zealand license plate, Consular ccc (documented since 1995), sample 479CCC

Format, years and the law

Format
999CCC, for example 479CCC (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 motorcycle, moped, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE CONSULAR MOTORCYCLE AND TRAILER MARK. Authored for completeness of the Schedule 4 table rather than because consular motorcycles are common: the table is closed and primary, and a parse API that knows five of its six alphanumeric marks will mis-score the sixth.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Schedule 4 row 4, second limb https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html
  2. cl 5 table row 3, second limb https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1995/0136/latest/whole.html

This plate in your app

The series id is nz-consular-ccc. 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-ccc")'