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New Zealand number plate: Motorcycle 1988

Retired 1988 to 2009. Motorcycle plates for motorcycle, moped, and tractor, 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, Motorcycle 1988 (1988 to 2009), sample 34YDG
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Format, years and the law

Format
99LLL, for example 34YDG (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
  • characters 1-2 (up to 3 in law): the numeral block, 1 to 999
  • final characters: two or three letters

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
1988 to 2009. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle, moped, and tractor.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
PERIOD.END IS THE WEAK END AND IS SAID SO HERE: 2009 rests on a secondary report that the numeral-first run had reached the ZUU block by July 2009, and on nothing else; the law never withdrew cl 2(3)(a)(ii), and after 1 May 2011 the law stopped prescribing arrangements altogether, so no instrument closes this series.
How numbers are issued
NZTA, verbatim: "One or two letters and three or four numbers for motorcycles, mopeds and tractors (starting at 1RLH) The current series is 1AAA, 99AAA ongoing to 1ZZZ to 99ZZZ." THE SENTENCE IS SELF-CONTRADICTORY AND THE EXAMPLES DECIDE IT: "1RLH" and "1AAA, 99AAA" are one or two NUMERALS followed by three LETTERS, which is what cl 2(3)(a)(ii) says and what this series carries. The prose has the two halves transposed. The numeral advances before the letters do.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 'Single plates, for motorcycles, trailers, tractors, caravans. These plates were divided into two series in 1988'; the 1RLH start and the 1AAA, 99AAA range https://www.nzta.govt.nz/roads-and-rail/research-and-data/fascinating-facts/number-plates
  2. cl 2(3)(a)(ii) and (iii): numerals 1 to 999 followed by 2 or 3 letters, and the stacked 1-to-99 variant https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1995/0136/latest/whole.html
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Zealand

This plate in your app

The series id is nz-motorcycle-1988. 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-motorcycle-1988")'
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