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New Zealand number plate: Trailer 2002

Retired 2002 to 2014. Trailer plates for trailer and caravan, 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, Trailer 2002 (2002 to 2014), sample F171T
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Format, years and the law

Format
L999L, for example F171T (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
  • character 1: a letter
  • characters 2-4: the numeral block, 1 to 999
  • character 5: a letter

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

Years issued
2002 to 2014. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer and caravan.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE INSTRUMENT-DATED TRAILER FORMAT, and the centre of the one live source conflict in New Zealand plates. The START is firm: 18 July 2002, the day SR 2002/188 added the "preceded and followed by a letter" shape, and NZTA's own history page describes exactly this range as current ("The current series is A111A to Z999Z").

Legal basis and sources

  1. cl 2(3)(b)(iv), 'added, on 18 July 2002, by clause 3 of the Transport (Vehicle Registration and Licensing) Amendment Notice 2002 (SR 2002/188)' https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1995/0136/latest/whole.html
  2. 'One to four numbers and one letter for trailers, excluding D and X, which are used for trade plates. The current series is A111A to Z999Z.' https://www.nzta.govt.nz/roads-and-rail/research-and-data/fascinating-facts/number-plates
  3. 'Trailer and caravan plates are the same size as the plates used on cars. 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-trailer-2002. 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-trailer-2002")'
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