New Zealand number plate: Diplomatic dcc
Issued today Documented since 1995. Diplomatic 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999DCC, for example532DCC(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
- Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for motorcycle, moped, and trailer.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - About this plate
- THE DIPLOMATIC MOTORCYCLE AND TRAILER MARK, numerals FIRST, then DCC. New Zealand builds its three-letter official marks by adding a letter to the two-letter form and flipping the order, and it does so consistently across all three families (DC/DCC, CC/CCC, FC/FCC). That consistency is the single most useful thing about Schedule 4 for a parser, and it is stated in the instrument rather than inferred.
Legal basis and sources
- Schedule 4 row 3, second limb https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html
- cl 5 table row 2, second limb, 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-diplomatic-dcc. 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-diplomatic-dcc")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-diplomatic-dcc.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-diplomatic-dcc/template.svg
