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  2. Vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Number plates must be displayed in accordance with the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001. Number plates must be made of reflex-reflecting material, white at the front and yellow at the rear, with black characters. This was first required on all vehicles manufactured after 1 January 1973, having been optional before ...

  3. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - Wikipedia

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    It uses a client–server architecture and uses the vehicle identification number, rather than the registration plate, as the primary key to track vehicles, eliminating the possibility of having multiple registrations for a single vehicle. The Vehicle Identity Check (VIC) was introduced to help reduce vehicle crime. It was intended to deter ...

  4. Motor vehicle registration - Wikipedia

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    Registration can be with one of the registration authorities set up by each state or territory. [1] These authorities also issue registration plates (commonly known as number plates), which are affixed to the vehicle when it is first registered, and registration certificates for the vehicle. Registration must be renewed annually, with the ...

  5. Vanity plate - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom, number plates are issued by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). They do not approve personalised registrations (often also called private number plates and cherished number plates in the UK) if they contain words which are offensive in any widely used language. One registration to slip the net was PEN 15.

  6. Driver and Vehicle Agency - Wikipedia

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    Prior to 2014, the DVA was also responsible for vehicle registration and vehicle tax. [5] This responsibility was transferred to the DVLA . Personalised ( private ) registrations must now be purchased through the DVLA directly, and customers are recommended to tax their vehicles online.

  7. Vehicle registration plate - Wikipedia

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    A car registration plate from the United Kingdom. The "GB" or "UK" marks have been used in the United Kingdom in various years. [1]In Europe, most governments require a registration plate to be attached to both the front and rear of a vehicle, [2] [3] although certain jurisdictions or vehicle types, such as motorcycles, require only one plate, which is usually attached to the rear of the vehicle.

  8. Department of motor vehicles - Wikipedia

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    Almost all long-term residents ("long term" in this case means over 30 days) of a state who wish to operate motor vehicles must possess a driver's license issued by their state DMV, and their vehicles must show license plates (and current registration tags or stickers) issued by that agency.

  9. Vehicle registration plates of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Even multiples of 1000 and 1111 ("four-of-a-kind") are deemed cherished by the DVLA and thus withheld. Each series ends at 9998 and follows on to the next letter/number combination in the series. [citation needed] Northern Ireland plate. This particular County Down plate, which dates from the last century, uses an old-style font.