Portugal license plate: National 1992
Retired 1992 to 2005. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I. P. (IMT). One of 13 Portugal license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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99-99-LL, for example66-64-PD(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The characters are a pure national counter, Portugal has never hidden geography in a car number, but the plate dates itself: the yellow strip on the right carries the month and year the vehicle was first registered, a birth certificate riveted to the bumper.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1992 to 2005. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE 1992-2005 WINDOW, and the one place in this file where a boundary is dated TO THE DAY by a statute: numbers up to 29-02-1992 are AA-00-00, numbers from 01-03-1992 are 00-00-AA. A PRECISION WORTH KEEPING, because it is a real two-month seam and secondary sources collapse it: the NUMBER format changed on 01-03-1992, but the PLATE MODEL changed on 01-01-1992, art. 5.º n.º 1 puts Anexo II (black) on everything up to 31-12-1991 and Anexo III (white retroreflective) on everything from 01-01-1992. So registrations made in January and February 1992 carry an OLD-FORMAT AA-00-00 number on a NEW white reflective plate, and that combination is lawful, sourced, and invisible in every secondary account of the change. The instrument that actually made the 1992 change was not reached: DL 54/2005 states the dates but revokes only arts. 1.º-3.º of Decreto Regulamentar n.º 13/98, de 15 de junho and arts.
- Separators
- statutory hyphens (art. 3.º n.º 1, 'separados entre si por traços')
Legal basis and sources
- DL 54/2005 Regulamento art. 3.º n.º 2 a)-b): AA-00-00 for numbers issued 'até 29 de Fevereiro de 1992' and 00-00-AA 'a partir de 1 de Março de 1992', both boundary dates enacted verbatim. Art. 5.º n.º 1 b) + n.º 3:... https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2005/03/044a00/18921897.pdf
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is pt-national-1992. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Portugal's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/pt \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "pt-national-1992")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-national-1992.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-national-1992/template.svg
