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South Africa license plate: NC 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, NC standard 3L3F (documented since 2000), sample XTL 775 NC
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999 NC, for example XTL 775 NC (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, NC standard 3L3F 250×205 mm (documented since 2000)

    NC standard 3L3F 250×205 mm

    standard · 250 × 205 mm

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

    NC standard 3L3F 250×165 mm

    standard · 250 × 165 mm

About this plate
NORTHERN CAPE, three letters + three figures + NC. A Northern Cape plate is the clearest demonstration of the two-dimension trap this file guards against: the province was carved out of the old Cape Province, whose registering-authority marks all began with C and are still issued next door in the Western Cape, so a C-initial mark and an NC suffix are the SAME geography a generation apart and must never be conflated.

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. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_South_Africa

This plate in your app

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