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South Africa license plate: FS 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, FS standard 3L3F (documented since 2000), sample NFR 487 FS
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999 FS, for example NFR 487 FS (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, FS standard 3L3F 250×205 mm (documented since 2000)

    FS standard 3L3F 250×205 mm

    standard · 250 × 205 mm

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

    FS standard 3L3F 250×165 mm

    standard · 250 × 165 mm

About this plate
FREE STATE, three letters + three figures + FS. The SERIAL grammar is the national reg 27 grammar; what is province-specific and fully primary here is the DESIGN: black on white with the cheetah landscape from 1 June 2002 (Provincial Notice 51 of 2002), metal plates only, with a four-year run-out for existing plastic and for the older black-on-white and black-on-yellow plates authorised by the repealed Government Notice 1579 of 28 November 1997.

Legal basis and sources

  1. reg 27(2)(a)(ii)(aa) + proviso https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2021-06/%20ROAD%20TRAFFIC%20REGULATIONS,%202000.pdf
  2. Free State Provincial Notice 51 of 2002, Provincial Gazette 25 of 9 April 2002, made under reg 27: para 3(c) black letters on white retro-reflective with the Schedule 1/3 landscape; para 12 metal only (SABS 1116 Part... https://www.policeroadstransport.fs.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Licence-number-plate-for-the-Free-State-2002.pdf
  3. Free State Provincial Notice 16 of 2010, Provincial Gazette 17 of 23 April 2010: deletes the number-plate validation label and the five-year plate-replacement rule from PN 51 of 2002 https://www.policeroadstransport.fs.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Amendment-of-personalised-and-licence-number-pl...

This plate in your app

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