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Portugal license plate: National 2005

Retired 2005 to 2020. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, tricycle, and quadricycle, issued by Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I. P. (IMT). One of 13 Portugal license plates.

The strip-era Portuguese standard: blue Euro-band left, first- registration date strip right, the plate most associated with Portugal's roads.

Portugal license plate, National 2005 (2005 to 2020), sample 81-NA-18
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Format, years and the law

Format
99-LL-99, for example 81-NA-18 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Letters in the middle is itself the decode: 00-AA-00 can only have been issued between 2005 and 2020. The serial is sequential and says nothing else; the yellow strip still tells the truth, carrying the month and year of first registration.

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

Years issued
2005 to 2020. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, tricycle, and quadricycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Portugal license plate, National 2005 340×220 mm (2005 to 2020)

    National 2005 340×220 mm

    standard · 340 × 220 mm

About this plate
THE 2005-2020 WINDOW. DL 54/2005 is the enabling instrument and its own dates are known precisely, published 03-03-2005, no entry-into-force clause of its own, so the general 5-day vacatio of Lei n.º 74/98 puts it in force on 08-03-2005 (DERIVED from the default rule, not stated; flagged) except for Regulamento arts. 11.º, 15.º and 16.º, which its art. 6.º delays to 01-01-2006. NOT USED AS THE SERIES START, on the instrument-date rule.
How numbers are issued
sequential and non-geographic; the letter pair advances as the digit groups roll
Separators
The hyphen IS statutory in this window: art. 3.º n.º 1, verbatim, "sendo os grupos separados entre si por traços", and the Anexo IV Modelo I drawing draws the glyph between groups. Contrast the 2020 model, where the clause was deleted. The 2020 note’s photograph question remains open for ITS model.

Legal basis and sources

  1. THE ENABLING INSTRUMENT: DL 54/2005 art. 3.º n.º 2 c), '00-AA-00' for numbers issued from the end of the use of the preceding model; preamble states the reason: 'As actuais séries de matrícula dos automóveis... https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2005/03/044a00/18921897.pdf
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Portugal
  3. Decreto-Lei n.º 112/2009, de 18 de maio, as carried by the Procuradoria-Geral Distrital de Lisboa database: the amendment that moves the plastic-motorcycle-plate date from 01-01-2006 (DL 106/2006) to 01-01-2007, and... https://www.pgdlisboa.pt/leis/lei_mostra_articulado.php?nid=1103&tabela=leis

Before and after

Portugal license plate, National 1992 (1992 to 2005) It replaced National 1992 1992 to 2005 Portugal license plate, National 2020 (2020 to today) Replaced by National 2020 2020 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is pt-national-2005. 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-2005")'
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