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South Africa license plate: GP standard 2L2F2L

Issued today 2023 to today. 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, GP standard 2L2F2L (2023 to today), sample CH 15 JD GP
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99 LL GP, for example CH 15 JD GP (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
2023 to today. 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, GP standard 2L2F2L 250×205 mm (2023 to today)

    GP standard 2L2F2L 250×205 mm

    standard · 250 × 205 mm

  • South Africa license plate, GP standard 2L2F2L 250×165 mm (2023 to today)

    GP standard 2L2F2L 250×165 mm

    standard · 250 × 165 mm

About this plate
GAUTENG, two letters + two figures + two letters + GP. THE PERIOD IS THE WEAK CLAIM AND IT IS THE ONLY REASON THIS SERIES IS NOT FULLY PRIMARY. The FORMAT is primary twice over (reg 27(2)(a)(ii)(bb), and GG 37542 GN 287 reproducing it) and could not have been issued before 27 May 2009, the day GNR.589 inserted limb (bb), that is the hard lower bound. The 2023 start is Wikipedia-derived: the Gauteng notice under reg 27(4) establishing the new system was not located, and no Gauteng provincial gazette index with full-text search was reachable.

Legal basis and sources

  1. reg 27(2)(a)(ii)(bb) and its amendment note '[Sub-para. (ii) substituted by r. 5 (a) of GNR.589 of 27 May 2009.]', the enabling instrument https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2021-06/%20ROAD%20TRAFFIC%20REGULATIONS,%202000.pdf
  2. GG 37542 GN 287 of 9 April 2014 reproducing limb (bb) verbatim https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/37542gen287.pdf
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_South_Africa
  4. the GP mark itself (Gauteng form PRN1-GP) https://cmbinary.gauteng.gov.za/Media?path=transport/Documents/Documents/GP%20Application%20Form%20-%20Personalised%2...

Before and after

South Africa license plate, ZN RA mark (documented 2000 to 2023) It replaced ZN RA mark documented 2000 to 2023

This plate in your app

The series id is za-gp-standard-2l2f2l. 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-gp-standard-2l2f2l")'
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