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Sweden license plate: Provisional

Issued today Documented since 2016. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Transportstyrelsen. One of 13 Sweden license plates.

Sweden license plate, Provisional (documented since 2016), sample BHF 451
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example BHF 451 (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 2016; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FCA62F
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
PROVISORISK REGISTRERINGSSKYLT, issued by the POLICE, not by Transportstyrelsen, when a plate is lost or stolen. Its own series rather than a variant because the issuing authority, the colour and the (absent) retroreflectivity requirement all differ from the ordinary plate. SIZE CHANGE WORTH RECORDING: 445x120 mm under bilregisterkungörelsen 25 § and still 445x120 in Transportstyrelsen's own March 2014 publication; 520x110 under TSFS 2015:63 6 kap. 15 § (in force 2016-01-01). Distinct from the interimsskylt: 10 kap. 4 § provides in terms that "En interimsskylt får dock inte vara provisorisk."
How long it is valid
note: 3 kap. 17 § förordningen (2019:383): usable only until the owner or driver has received a replacement plate (ersättningsskylt), which must then be fitted as soon as possible.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 6 kap. 15 §; 6 kap. https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/TSFS/TSFS%202015_63k.pdf
  2. 3 kap. 13-18 §: the Polismyndighet issues the provisional plate on an ersättningsskylt application, the use-ban carve-outs, and 3 kap. https://data.riksdagen.se/dokument/sfs-2019-383.html
  3. bilregisterkungörelse 25 §: 'Provisorisk registreringsskylt utformas som enradig skylt med yttermåtten 445x120 mm ... https://rkrattsbaser.gov.se/sfst?bet=1972%3A599&upph=true
  4. transportstyrelsen.se https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/globalassets/global/press/registreringsskyltar/provisorisk-regskylt_ny.jpg

This plate in your app

The series id is se-provisional. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Sweden's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/se \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "se-provisional")'
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