New Zealand number plate: Trade 1999
Retired 1999 to 2016. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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X9999, for exampleX3618(9 any digit)- the letter X, preceded or followed by exactly 4 numerals
- SEPARATELY: the last 2 digits of the year of issue, set vertically to the right
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1999 to 2016. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, and trailer.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFCC00 - About this plate
- Two facts sit around it and are recorded rather than folded in. FIRST, the yellow trade plate is older than this series: NZTA dates yellow-with-year to 1986, and cl 7A of 1999 is what merged the trade PLATE with the trade LICENCE into one object ("serves also as the trade plate for the motor vehicle in respect of which it is issued"), the pre-1999 form was not located and is a gap. SECOND, NZTA records that the X series "replace the 'D' series", so New Zealand trade plates once ran on a D letter; that older series is unmodelled and unresearched, and it is also why D and X are the two letters withheld from trailer plates.
- How long it is valid
- expires: 31 December of the year shown
Legal basis and sources
- cl 7A, 'inserted, on 22 July 1999, by clause 3(1) of the Transport (Vehicle Registration and Licensing) Amendment Notice 1999 (SR 1999/204)'; cll 4 and 7 revoked by cl 3(2) of the same instrument https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1995/0136/latest/whole.html
- reg 36 as replaced on 1 January 2016 by LI 2014/378 reg 4, the instrument that ends this series https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html
- 'In 1986 black characters on yellow plates were introduced, showing the last two digits of the year the plate was purchased. The current series 1X, 9999X and X1, X9999 replace the D series.' https://www.nzta.govt.nz/roads-and-rail/research-and-data/fascinating-facts/number-plates
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is nz-trade-1999. 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-trade-1999")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-trade-1999.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nz/nz-trade-1999/template.svg
