New Zealand number plate: Personalised
Issued today 1988 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, caravan, 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLLLL, for exampleLEXYXO(L is any letter)- 1 to 6 characters, letters or numerals or both, chosen by the purchaser and approved by the Registrar
The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 1988 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, caravan, and tractor.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - About this plate
- There is no grammar to be strict about: the law caps the length and forbids offence, and everything else is the purchaser's choice. The 1964-era ZZ9990-ZZ9999 block was likewise sold ahead of the scheme, which is why the two-letter series is recorded as ending at ZZ9989.
- Who the plate belongs to
- the exclusive right is allocated to a PERSON under s 259 of the Act and transfers between vehicles and between people (reg 43), the one New Zealand series that does not bind to a vehicle
Legal basis and sources
- reg 34 in full (identifier, caps, refusal grounds, colours, material); reg 40 display; reg 43 transfer; reg 3 'exclusive right to personalised plates' https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html
- milestone 1988, verbatim: 'Personalised plates are introduced, providing a source of income for road safety research and projects.'; 'introduced in 1988, these plates can have up to six numbers or letters' https://www.nzta.govt.nz/roads-and-rail/research-and-data/fascinating-facts/number-plates
- 'Personalised plates can have up to 6 characters ... include captions, messages or slogans'; the white-or-silver-on-black and black-red-or-blue-on-white palettes; 'When you buy a personalised plate, you're buying the... https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/licensing-rego/number-plates
This plate in your app
The series id is nz-personalised-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-personalised-1988")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-personalised-1988.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-personalised-1988/template.svg
