New Zealand number plate: Diplomatic fcc

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.

New Zealand license plate, Diplomatic fcc (documented since 1995), sample 885FCC

Format, years and the law

Format
999FCC, for example 885FCC (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
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE RESIDUAL IMMUNITIES MOTORCYCLE AND TRAILER MARK, completing Schedule 4's six alphanumeric marks.

Legal basis and sources

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

This plate in your app

The series id is nz-diplomatic-fcc. 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-fcc")'