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New Zealand number plate: Motorcycle 2007

Issued today 2007 to today. Motorcycle plates for motorcycle, moped, tractor, and atv, 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 2007 (2007 to today), sample K9MKV
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Format, years and the law

Format
L9LLL, for example K9MKV (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
  • character 1: a letter
  • character 2: a numeral, 1 to 9
  • characters 3-5: any combination of 3 letters

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

Years issued
2007 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle, moped, tractor, and atv.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Typeface
not prescribed · license plate fonts

Legal basis and sources

  1. cl 2(3)(a)(iv) and (v), each 'added, on 22 January 2007, by clause 4(1) of the Transport (Vehicle Registration and Licensing) Amendment Notice 2006 (SR 2006/388)' https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1995/0136/latest/whole.html
  2. reg 33(1)(a) five-character cap for motorcycles, mopeds and trailers; reg 39(2) one plate, rear https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html
  3. 'Plates for motorcycles, mopeds, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and tractors can be square or rectangular. We issue one plate for these vehicles.' https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/licensing-rego/number-plates
  4. 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-2007. 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-2007")'
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