South Africa license plate: Dealer A
Issued today Documented since 2000. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Department of Transport (national) and the MEC responsible for road traffic in each of the nine provinces. One of 20 South Africa license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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ALL 999 LL(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 2000; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 520 × 113 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- MOTOR TRADE NUMBERS on the provincial limb, A + two letters + three figures + provincial mark. Bound to a registered motor dealer, manufacturer, builder or importer, licensed annually under regs 73-77 and cancellable under reg 80. The A prefix is why A survives the vowel ban in this one series and nowhere else, and it makes a dealer number instantly separable from an ordinary 3+3 provincial number.
Legal basis and sources
- reg 71(2)(a), verbatim: a motor trade number system 'shall consist of, (a) the letter "A" followed by two letters, three figures and the licence mark of the province concerned as contemplated in regulation 27 (1)';... https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2021-06/%20ROAD%20TRAFFIC%20REGULATIONS,%202000.pdf
- PN 51 of 2002 para 4(b): dark blue letters and figures on white with the landscape, for motor dealer plates https://www.policeroadstransport.fs.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Licence-number-plate-for-the-Free-State-2002.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is za-dealer-a. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of South Africa's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/za \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "za-dealer-a")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/za/za-dealer-a.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/za/za-dealer-a/template.svg