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South Africa license plate: EC standard 3L3F

Issued today Documented since 2000. Standard 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.

South Africa license plate, EC standard 3L3F (documented since 2000), sample THJ 299 EC
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999 EC, for example THJ 299 EC (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
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 113 mm · every country's size
  • South Africa license plate, EC standard 3L3F 250×205 mm (documented since 2000)

    EC standard 3L3F 250×205 mm

    standard · 250 × 205 mm

  • South Africa license plate, EC standard 3L3F 250×165 mm (documented since 2000)

    EC standard 3L3F 250×165 mm

    standard · 250 × 165 mm

About this plate
EASTERN CAPE, three letters + three figures + EC. THE MARK IS THE WEAK CLAIM HERE: the grammar is primary (reg 27) but the two letters "EC" rest on Wikipedia and were not traced to the Eastern Cape provincial gazette notice made under reg 27(1).

Legal basis and sources

  1. reg 27(2)(a)(ii)(aa) + proviso; reg 35(2),(10) https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2021-06/%20ROAD%20TRAFFIC%20REGULATIONS,%202000.pdf
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_South_Africa

This plate in your app

The series id is za-ec-standard-3l3f. 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-ec-standard-3l3f")'
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