New Zealand number plate: Diplomatic FC
Issued today Documented since 1995. Diplomatic 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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FC999, for exampleFC371(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 car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - About this plate
- THE RESIDUAL IMMUNITIES MARK, Schedule 4's catch-all row, for people with some immunity under the 1968 Act who are not covered by the diplomatic or consular rows. Because it is residual, an FC plate carries LESS information than a DC or CC plate does: it says only that the holder has some privilege, not which mission or which country. A parse API should not report it as "diplomatic corps".
Legal basis and sources
- reg 37 and Schedule 4 row 5 https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html
- cl 5 table row 4, 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-fc. 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-fc")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-diplomatic-fc.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-diplomatic-fc/template.svg
