South Africa license plate: Dealer figures
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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9999 LL, for example9197 AW(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 registering-authority limb, three or four figures followed by the town mark.
- How the region is encoded
- Here the mark TRAILS the figures, which is the mirror image of an ordinary registering-authority number (mark first, figures after). A parser must therefore not assume mark position from the presence of a mark: "1234 CA" is a Western Cape dealer number and "CA 1234" is an ordinary Cape Town registration.
Legal basis and sources
- reg 71(2)(b), verbatim: 'three or four figures followed by the licence mark of the registering authority as contemplated in regulation 27 (2) (a) (i), but shall not consist of vowels, except the letter "A" as referred... https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2021-06/%20ROAD%20TRAFFIC%20REGULATIONS,%202000.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is za-dealer-figures. 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-figures")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/za/za-dealer-figures.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/za/za-dealer-figures/template.svg
