Current Style Number Plates.
The term "Current Style Number Plates" refers to car registrations that were introduced in September 2001 to replace the previous prefix system which ran out of possible combinations.
Every New Style registration has 7 digits, unlike all previous numbering systems and the format is two letters, two number, space then three letters
The first two letters give the area of the country where the vehicle was first registered, the next two numbers give the 6 month period during which registration took place and the last three letters are random
It is interesting to note that the letter Z was made available for the first time in mainland registration numbers. It was previously reserved for N.Ireland
The series commenced with 51 in September 2001 and was followed by 02 in March 2002 and so on. The combinations 00 and 01 were not used and presumably will be made available to purchase at some later date.
If you have any questions regarding any of the above , please contact us by email or telephone.
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Personalised Number Plates Information
Due to the unique nature of private number plates, for example "car registrations are not items of property in their own right. They are assigned, and may be withdrawn by the Secretary of State. They are assigned to the vehicle rather than its keeper" and many of the car registrations we have available to us involve a third party, therefore unless the registration you are interested in is one of our own stock cherished number plates it is subject to current availability. Similarly we rely on these third parties to inform us that it has been sold. If you see "your" cherished number plate on our website and it should not be there, we would welcome your feedback so that we can rectify the mistake. With regard to the Distance Selling Regulations, we must notify you that as the contract will begin as soon as payment is made, the cooling off period and right to cancel will no longer apply. This website contains cherished number plates from our own stock,car registrations where we are acting as an agent and unissued government stock.We reserve the right to withdraw from sale or change the price of any private number plate without notice. All personalised number plates on this website are subject to availability, D.O.T. transfer fee and some are also subject to V.A.T. at the rate currently set by the government. Additional costs are sometimes applicable for the transfer of personalised number plates to N.Ireland... E.&.O.E.
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