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South Africa license plate: NW 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, NW standard 3L3F (documented since 2000), sample FGZ 913 NW
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999 NW, for example FGZ 913 NW (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, NW standard 3L3F 250×205 mm (documented since 2000)

    NW standard 3L3F 250×205 mm

    standard · 250 × 205 mm

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

    NW standard 3L3F 250×165 mm

    standard · 250 × 165 mm

About this plate
NORTH WEST, three letters + three figures + NW. A change of numbering system is reported for February 2016 (announced December 2015) and was NOT modelled: no notice was located, and a reg 27(4) notice establishing a NEW system would have had to choose between limbs (aa) and (bb), which would decide whether this series should have an end year. Recorded as the most likely missing series in this file.

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-nw-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-nw-standard-3l3f")'
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