New Zealand number plate: Government CR
Issued today 2011 to today. Government plates for car, van, 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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CR999, for exampleCR669(9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2011 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - About this plate
- THE PRACTICE IS OLDER THAN THE LAW and this file says so rather than pretending the dates agree: CR-marked ministerial cars, and CR1 on the Prime Minister's car, are reported in New Zealand news coverage well before 2011.
Legal basis and sources
- reg 37 and Schedule 4 row 2, the row that did not exist before 1 May 2011 https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html
- cl 5's table, which has FOUR rows and no Ministers-of-the-Crown row at all, the negative that dates this series https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1995/0136/latest/whole.html
- 'They have plates with a symbol of a crown or special characters, for example, CR (crown).' https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/licensing-rego/number-plates
This plate in your app
The series id is nz-government-cr. 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-government-cr")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-government-cr.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-government-cr/template.svg
