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Norway license plate: Rally

Issued today Documented since 1996. Standard plates for car and motorcycle, issued by Statens vegvesen. One of 17 Norway license plates.

Norway license plate, Rally (documented since 1996), sample TH 98585
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999, for example TH 98585 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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

Years issued
Documented since 1996; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
303 × 85 mm · every country's size
About this plate
595, which took effect on publication; the 1997 amendment extended it to trial and enduro motorcycles, so a motorcycle rally plate cannot predate 17 June 1997, recorded in categories rather than split into a second series.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2-11 tredje ledd e: licensed competition vehicles exempt from engangsavgift carry white characters on black. https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1990-01-25-92/KAPITTEL_2
  2. forskrift 14. juni 1996 nr. 595, in force on publication: adds the rally provision at § 2-3 nr. 3 litra e, § 2-4 nr. 3 and § 2-5 nr. 2 litra e, conditioned on the vehicle being 'lisensiert i overensstemmelse med... https://lovdata.no/dokument/LTI/forskrift/1996-06-14-595
  3. forskrift 17. juni 1997 nr. 768, in force 17 June 1997: extends the same black plate to licensed TRIAL and ENDURO motorcycles. https://lovdata.no/dokument/LTI/forskrift/1997-06-17-768
  4. 2026-07-16): the holder needs a personal licence from an NMF club and must carry vognkort, licence and club confirmation of training times; road use is limited to travel to and from training or competition. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge

This plate in your app

The series id is no-rally-1996. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Norway's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/no \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "no-rally-1996")'
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