# Portugal license plate: National 1992

> The Portugal national 1992 license plate: format 99-99-LL, for example 66-64-PD, 1992 to 2005, car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.

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Part of [Portugal license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal) (13 registration series).

![Portugal license plate, National 1992 (1992 to 2005)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-national-1992/portugal-license-plate-national-1992.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `99-99-LL` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 1992–2005 |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Other sizes |  |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `pt-national-1992` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-1992) |

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.

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: for numbers issued between 01-01-1992 and 31-12-1997 the plate is Anexo III — retroreflective, white ground, black letters, digits, dashes and peripheral border.](https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2005/03/044a00/18921897.pdf)

## 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')

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [National 1937](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-1937) | 1937 to 1992 |
| Replaced by | [National 2005](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-2005) | 2005 to 2020 |

## Other standard plates here

- [National 2020](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-2020) (2020 to today)
- [National 2005](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-2005) (2005 to 2020)
- [National 1937](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-1937) (1937 to 1992)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-national-1992.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/portugal?series=pt-national-1992
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/pt` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "pt-national-1992"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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