vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/ng.yml

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+# plates/ng.yml — Nigeria (the plates spec gate L5).
+#
+# THE CENTRAL FINDING, AND IT IS AN AWKWARD ONE: **THE GAZETTE DOES NOT CONTAIN
+# THE PLATE MASK.** The National Road Traffic Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 61,
+# Government Notice No. 270, Official Gazette Vol. 99 No. 101, Lagos,
+# 25 December 2012) regulates plate COLOUR, DIMENSION, EMBLEM PLACEMENT,
+# REFLECTIVITY, FIELD CONTENT and the temporary/trade/fancy regimes in detail —
+# and never once prints a format mask. The familiar `AAA-NNNAA` shape
+# (three letters, three figures, two letters) is TERTIARY ONLY.
+#
+# THIS FILE KEEPS THOSE TWO TIERS APART ON PURPOSE. The design and colour data
+# below is `statute`, quoted to regulation number. The SHAPE is not, and every
+# series whose regex rests on the unverified mask is marked `recall-only` so
+# that a match is a shape hit and nothing more (§2.7). The temptation this file
+# is built to resist is letting the statute-tier badge on the surrounding
+# fields bleed onto the mask sitting between them.
+#
+# WHAT THE STATUTE DOES ESTABLISH ABOUT ORDERING — reg. 39(4)(f), verbatim:
+# "Local Government Area codes shall come first in respect of Private,
+# Commercial and Local Government Area vehicles". So LGA-FIRST IS STATUTORY,
+# and it is the strongest confirmation available of the 2011 redesign's shape.
+# Reg. 3(1) assigns a plate "within the Local Government Code"; reg. 39(2)(a)
+# lists a private plate's fields as the State name, "the licensing office code
+# number, the vehicle registration number and Local Government code number".
+# Reg. 39(5) then delegates the code TABLES entirely: "The Commission shall
+# determine, from time to time, the appropriate number codes for all categories
+# of vehicles." The tables are FRSC's, not the gazette's — which is exactly why
+# no decode table ships here (see V2).
+#
+# FOUR MORE STRUCTURAL FACTS
+#
+# 1. COLOUR IS THE CLASS MARKER AND THE BACKGROUND IS ALWAYS WHITE. Every
+#    Nigerian class shares a white ground and is distinguished by LETTERING
+#    COLOUR (reg. 39(2), Schedule 5 Figs 6-8). The widely-repeated "black on
+#    white" description of the ordinary Nigerian plate is wrong: a private
+#    plate letters in BLUE.
+# 2. THE EMBLEM IS A CORNER DEVICE, NOT A SEPARATOR. National FLAG top-left for
+#    private and commercial (reg. 39(3)(a)); national COAT OF ARMS top-left for
+#    government and LGA (39(3)(b)) and for military and para-military
+#    (39(3)(c)). Under §2.6's never_separator reasoning this is a design
+#    element carried in `design.emblem` and never in the serial.
+# 3. NO SEPARATOR IS PRESCRIBED ANYWHERE. The statute regulates field content
+#    and emblem position and says nothing about hyphens, spaces or dividers. So
+#    every regex here spells the group boundaries as the SEPARATOR-ONLY CLASS
+#    `[- ]?` sanctioned by §2.8 — the honest encoding of a real gap in the
+#    authority's text, exactly as `es-consular-cc-1999` does, rather than an
+#    invented hyphen.
+# 4. NIGERIA HAS NO HISTORIC/CLASSIC PLATE CLASS. NRTR 2012 contains no such
+#    category. Recorded as ABSENT rather than as not-yet-researched — a
+#    different and more useful claim. "Keke"/tricycle likewise never appears as
+#    a plate class in the instrument.
+#
+# §VERIFIER — open questions in priority order
+#   V1. THE MASK. Pin an FRSC instrument or gazette amendment that states the
+#       3+3+2 shape, then flip the recall-only series to strict.
+#   V2. The LGA -> three-letter code table and the 774 LGA count. Delegated to
+#       FRSC by reg. 39(5); the Schedule 5 code tables in the gazette PDF are
+#       UN-EXTRACTABLE IMAGES. No decode table ships until this is pinned.
+#   V3. DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR ARE ENTIRELY ABSENT FROM THIS FILE and the
+#       reason is specific: reg. 39(4)(e) points to "figure 11 of Schedule 5",
+#       and Schedule 5 in the gazette PDF ENDS AT FIGURE 10. Figure 11 is
+#       missing from the instrument as published. The purple/green CD/CC
+#       description in circulation is tertiary and is NOT recorded here.
+#   V4. Serial alphabet, and specifically whether I, O and Q are excluded.
+#       NO EVIDENCE EITHER WAY was found, so no `serial_alphabet:` is declared
+#       and the global A-Z 0-9 is inherited. Declaring an exclusion nobody
+#       sourced would be the Croatian folding error in a new costume.
+#   V5. Security features. NO hologram, barcode or NVIS chip is described
+#       anywhere in the instrument — only reflectivity. Recorded as absent.
+jurisdiction: ng
+authority:
+  name: "Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC)"
+  url: "https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf"
+  authority_evidence: >-
+    Reg. 39(5) gives the Commission the power to determine number codes for all
+    categories of vehicles, and reg. 39(10) gives FRSC the production monopoly
+    for the Federation. The url is the gazetted instrument that says so.
+    NOTE ON THE HOST: frsc.gov.ng has no reachable deep page on the plate
+    scheme (sitemap.xml and robots.txt both 404), so the instrument is cited to
+    a third-party host whose scan preserves the gazette pagination B 1531-B
+    1680 intact. The pagination is why this is treated as `statute` and not as
+    a secondary retelling; a verifier with access to an official Federal
+    Government Press copy should re-point these URLs.
+binding: vehicle
+series:
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # THE ORDINARY MARK — flag emblem, colour-by-use. Private and commercial
+  # share format, period, dimensions and emblem and differ ONLY in lettering
+  # colour, which under §2.3 makes them SUB-ENTRIES on one series rather than
+  # two series.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: ng-standard-2011
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2011 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-first-issue
+    period_note: >-
+      2011 is the commonly-given first-issue year of the national uniform
+      scheme and is NOT statutory — the instrument that gazettes the design is
+      dated 2012 and does not state a rollout date. Recorded at
+      secondary-first-issue tier for that reason. The 2012 regulations are the
+      instrument in force over the format; the 2011 date describes issuance.
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL999LL"
+      # RECALL-ONLY, and this is the file's central honesty point. The mask is
+      # TERTIARY: the gazette never prints it. What IS statutory is that the
+      # LGA code comes first (reg. 39(4)(f)). Separator positions are spelled
+      # as the sanctioned separator-only class of §2.8 because the statute
+      # prescribes no separator glyph at all.
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3}[- ]?\d{3}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}\z'
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 308, h: 155.6, unit: mm }
+      plate_note: "reg. 39(1): 12.125 in x 6.125 in for vehicles"
+      background_note: "white ground for every class (reg. 39(2)) — colour named in words; no hex asserted"
+      foreground_note: "varies BY USE, not by design era — see colour_by_use"
+      colour_by_use:
+        - { use: private,       lettering: blue,  cite: "reg. 39(2)(a); State name in black, 'Federal Republic of Nigeria' in black" }
+        - { use: commercial,    lettering: red,   cite: "reg. 39(2)(b); State name in black" }
+      emblem: { present: true, device: "national flag, top left", cite: "reg. 39(3)(a)" }
+      layout: >-
+        Top: the State name. Bottom: "FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA" in black.
+        Schedule 5 Figs 1-2 add that the plate "shall in addition contain
+        graphics as may be determined by the Commission" — which is why the
+        Nigeria map outline and the State slogans that appear on real plates
+        are FRSC-determined and NOT gazetted. Those are recorded here as
+        FRSC-determined, not as statutory design.
+      reflectivity: "reg. 37(4): legible day and night in clear weather at not less than 60 m"
+      rear_differs: false
+    region_encoding: none
+    region_encoding_mechanism: >-
+      The leading group is the Local Government Area code and it comes FIRST by
+      statute (reg. 39(4)(f)). `none` means NO TABLE SHIPPED: reg. 39(5)
+      delegates the code tables to FRSC and the Schedule 5 tables are
+      un-extractable images in the gazette scan. See V2.
+    notes: >-
+      The ordinary Nigerian plate. Private and commercial are one series with
+      two lettering colours. A Vehicle Identification Tag (Form MVA 25, reg. 38)
+      carrying the same number is displayed on the rear windscreen — a second
+      carrier of the registration, not a second series.
+    sources:
+      - "https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf  # reg. 39(4)(f) LGA-first ordering; reg. 39(2)(a)-(b) private blue / commercial red on white; reg. 39(1) 12.125x6.125 in; reg. 39(3)(a) flag top-left; reg. 37(4) 60 m legibility; reg. 38 Form MVA 25 tag; Schedule 5 Figs 1-2 FRSC-determined graphics — Official Gazette Vol. 99 No. 101, 25 Dec 2012, pagination B 1531-B 1680 intact; accessed 2026-09-12"
+      - "https://sabilaw.org/national-road-traffic-regulations-2012-with-2016-amendments/  # landing page establishing the instrument identity and the 2016 amendments — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: ng-government-2011
+    class: government
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2011 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-first-issue
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL999LL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3}[- ]?\d{3}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}\z'
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 308, h: 155.6, unit: mm }
+      background_note: "white ground — no hex asserted"
+      foreground_note: "green lettering"
+      colour_by_use:
+        - { use: "federal and state government", lettering: green, cite: "reg. 39(2)(c), Schedule 5 Fig. 7(a)" }
+        - { use: "local government / area council", lettering: green, cite: "reg. 39(2)(d)" }
+      emblem: { present: true, device: "national Coat of Arms, top left", cite: "reg. 39(3)(b)" }
+      layout: "top line carries the Ministry or Parastatal name rather than a State name"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Federal, State and Local Government fleets. A SEPARATE SERIES from
+      ng-standard-2011 rather than a colour sub-entry of it, because the
+      difference is not colour alone: the corner device changes from the
+      national flag to the Coat of Arms and the top line changes from a State
+      name to a Ministry or Parastatal name. Under §2.3 that is a DESIGN
+      difference, and a design difference makes a series.
+    sources:
+      - "https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf  # reg. 39(2)(c)-(d) green lettering for federal/state government and LGA; reg. 39(3)(b) Coat of Arms top-left; Schedule 5 Fig. 7(a) — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: ng-forces-2011
+    class: military
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2011 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-first-issue
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL999LL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3}[- ]?\d{3}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}\z'
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 308, h: 155.6, unit: mm }
+      background_note: "white ground — no hex asserted"
+      foreground_note: "black lettering"
+      colour_by_use:
+        - { use: "armed forces", lettering: black, cite: "reg. 39(2)(e), Schedule 5 Fig. 7(b)" }
+        - { use: "para-military, including the police", lettering: black, cite: "Schedule 5 Fig. 8" }
+      emblem: { present: true, device: "national Coat of Arms, top left", cite: "reg. 39(3)(c)" }
+      layout: "top line carries the Armed Forces or para-military body's name"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Armed forces and para-military bodies. THE POLICE SHARE THIS SERIES
+      rather than having their own: the instrument groups them under the
+      para-military black-lettering figure (Schedule 5 Fig. 8) with the same
+      Coat of Arms device, so splitting out a `police` class here would invent
+      a distinction the statute does not draw.
+    sources:
+      - "https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf  # reg. 39(2)(e) black lettering for military; reg. 39(3)(c) Coat of Arms; Schedule 5 Fig. 7(b) military and Fig. 8 para-military — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: ng-motorcycle-2011
+    class: motorcycle
+    categories: [motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 2011 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-first-issue
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL999LL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3}[- ]?\d{3}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}\z'
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 229, h: 102, unit: mm }
+      plate_note: "reg. 39(1): 9 in x 4 in for motorcycles"
+      background_note: "white ground — no hex asserted"
+      foreground_note: "lettering colour follows the vehicle's use, exactly as for four-wheelers"
+      colour_by_use:
+        - { use: private,     lettering: blue,  cite: "reg. 37(2)(c)" }
+        - { use: commercial,  lettering: red,   cite: "reg. 37(2)(c)" }
+        - { use: government,  lettering: green, cite: "reg. 37(2)(c)" }
+        - { use: "armed forces", lettering: black, cite: "reg. 37(2)(c)" }
+      reflectivity: "reg. 37(4): 30 m for motorcycles, against 60 m for other vehicles"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Its own series on DIMENSION grounds — 9x4 in against 12.125x6.125 in — and
+      on a second, sourced ground that is easy to miss: the reflectivity
+      requirement is HALVED for motorcycles, 30 m rather than 60 m (reg. 37(4)).
+      Format is assumed to follow the ordinary mask and is therefore
+      recall-only like every other series resting on it.
+    sources:
+      - "https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf  # reg. 39(1) 9x4 in motorcycle plate; reg. 37(2)(c) per-use lettering colours; reg. 37(4) 30 m motorcycle legibility — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: ng-dealer
+    class: dealer
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2012 }
+    period_evidence: enabling-statute
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LL L999 9"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{2}[- ]?[A-Z][- ]?\d{3}[- ]?\d\z'
+    design:
+      background_note: "not separately specified for dealer plates"
+      emblem: { present: true, device: "national flag symbol", cite: "reg. 31" }
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Trade and dealer plates, issued to motor dealers and mechanic workshop
+      operators (regs. 26(4), 30-32, Form MVA 10). Reg. 31 enumerates the
+      FIELDS verbatim — national flag symbol, dealer name, dealer's code, State
+      code, dealer's number (alphanumeric), individual vehicle code
+      (alphanumeric), "Federal Republic of Nigeria" — but again gives no mask;
+      the shape here approximates Schedule 5 Fig. 10 and is therefore
+      recall-only.
+      TWO STATUTORY RESTRICTIONS WORTH CARRYING because they are conditions of
+      validity rather than design: a dealer plate may not carry fee-paying
+      passengers, and it MAY NOT BE USED BETWEEN 18:00 AND 06:00. Workshop
+      plates are road-test only.
+    sources:
+      - "https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf  # regs. 26(4), 30-32 dealer and workshop plates, Form MVA 10, no fee-paying passengers, 18:00-06:00 prohibition; reg. 31 field list; Schedule 5 Fig. 10 layout — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: ng-temporary-wooden
+    class: temporary
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 2012 }
+    period_evidence: enabling-statute
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL999LL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3}[- ]?\d{3}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}\z'
+    design:
+      material: "wood — reg. 39(7)-(8) expressly contemplates an owner-constructed wooden plate"
+      background_note: "same colouring and lettering codes as the lost plate it replaces"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      THE MOST UNUSUAL SERIES IN THIS FILE AND IT IS ENTIRELY STATUTORY. On
+      reporting a plate lost, the owner MAY CONSTRUCT A TEMPORARY PLATE IN THE
+      FORM OF WOOD, carrying the same colouring and lettering codes, until the
+      replacement issues — which must be within 14 days of payment of the fee
+      (reg. 39(7)-(8)). It reproduces the EXISTING registration rather than
+      carrying a serial of its own, which is the `nl-export` situation: the
+      regex is a shape union and a match is emphatically not a claim that the
+      string is a valid temporary registration. recall-only for that reason as
+      well as for the mask.
+    sources:
+      - "https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf  # reg. 39(7)-(8) owner-constructed wooden temporary plate, same colouring/lettering codes, replacement within 14 days of fee payment — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: ng-fancy
+    class: personalized
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 2012 }
+    period_evidence: enabling-statute
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLLLLLLL"
+      # THE ONLY CHARACTER-COUNT RULE IN THE ENTIRE INSTRUMENT, so this is the
+      # one series in the file whose regex IS the sourced grammar.
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9]{1,8}\z'
+    design:
+      background_note: "not separately specified; the fancy regime governs the SERIAL, not a distinct design"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Special or fancy numbers. `strict`, and it is the only strict series here,
+      because reg. 5(3) states an actual grammar: a special or fancy number
+      "shall not exceed eight digits made up of alphabets, numerals or
+      combination of both". That is a real statutory bound and the regex is
+      exactly it — note it is the OUTER bound, so a match is a well-formedness
+      claim under §2.7 even though FRSC approves individual combinations "as it
+      deems fit" on payment.
+      Transfer between vehicles is permitted but requires POLICE CLEARANCE plus
+      an application to the State of last registration (reg. 6) — a condition
+      on the serial following a person, and the Nigerian analogue of the za.yml
+      personalised-number case.
+      FRSC's own 2024 Service Level Agreements to PEBEC price the classes
+      (production / State disposal, in naira): standard private 5,000/12,500;
+      MV fancy 40,000/80,000; motorcycle 1,500/3,000; articulated 10,000/20,000;
+      out-of-series 20,000/40,000; government fancy MV 20,000/20,000. Recorded
+      as `official` tier and as context, not as schema data — the plates spec §2.5
+      excludes fees from the model.
+    sources:
+      - "https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf  # reg. 5(3) not exceeding eight alphanumeric characters; reg. 6 transfer requires police clearance and application to the State of last registration — accessed 2026-09-12"
+      - "https://frsc.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SLAs-TO-PEBEC.pdf  # FRSC 2024 Service Level Agreements to PEBEC: number-plate price table and issuance chain — OFFICIAL tier, published on frsc.gov.ng; accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: ng-out-of-series
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2012 }
+    period_evidence: enabling-statute
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL999LL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3}[- ]?\d{3}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}\z'
+    design:
+      background_note: "not separately specified"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Out-of-series allocations: reg. 5(1) provides for a code "not in the
+      series being issued at the time, but in the control of the Central Motor
+      Registry", applied for via Schedule 5 Fig. 9 and Form MVA2. Recorded as
+      its own series because it is a distinct ALLOCATION regime with its own
+      form and its own controlling body, and priced separately in the FRSC
+      schedule. Overlaps ng-standard-2011 in shape by construction — the whole
+      point of an out-of-series number is that it looks ordinary while coming
+      from a reserved pool — which is why both are recall-only and why this
+      note differs from that one.
+    sources:
+      - "https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf  # reg. 5(1) out-of-series codes under Central Motor Registry control, Schedule 5 Fig. 9, Form MVA2 — accessed 2026-09-12"

data/data/plates/nl.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# plates/nl.yml — Netherlands (PRD-PLATES gate L0 pilot, COMPLETION PASS).
+# plates/nl.yml — Netherlands (the plates spec gate L0 pilot, COMPLETION PASS).
 #
 # Supersedes the 4-entry L0 seed. Entry ids from the seed are preserved
 # verbatim (nl-sidecode11-moped, nl-sidecode11-agricultural,
 # nl-sidecode11-car, nl-historic-darkblue) per the id contract
-# (PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6); their DATA is corrected where the RDW pages
+# (the quality spec I-5/I-6); their DATA is corrected where the RDW pages
 # contradicted the seed — corrections are called out in each `notes`.
 #
 # THE NL MODELLING RULE (EU dossier finding 6, binding): a sidecode is a
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ series:
         design: { background: { color: "#7CB9E8", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }, foreground: "#000000", plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm } }
         note: >-
           Light-blue taxi plates carry the vehicle's OWN registration — colour-only
-          variant of this series, so a sub-entry per PRD-PLATES §2.3, not a series.
+          variant of this series, so a sub-entry per the plates spec §2.3, not a series.
           Models 27.30 (long), 27.31 (rectangular), 18.2 (American, light blue).
         sources:
           - "https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/soorten-kentekenplaten  # taxikentekenplaat lichtblauw met zwarte letters en cijfers; 520x110 / 340x210 / 310x110"
@@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ series:
     categories: [tractor, machine, trailer]
     period: { start: 1978 }
     period_evidence: eligibility-cutoff
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): RDW exempts these vehicles from the
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): RDW exempts these vehicles from the
     # 2+2+2 registration-shape rule, so the regex is the same fourteen-shape
     # union as nl-export. A match is a SHAPE hit — it says the string has a
     # shape the Netherlands has issued, not that it is a valid historic
@@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ series:
     categories: [car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, semitrailer, tractor, machine]
     period: { start: 1951 }
     period_evidence: earliest-underlying-series   # the regime's own start is unsourced
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): the export plate carries the vehicle's
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): the export plate carries the vehicle's
     # OWN existing registration, so the regex is the union of all fourteen
     # RDW sidecode shapes. A match is a SHAPE hit, never the claim that the
     # string is a valid export registration — the union admits vowel serials

data/data/plates/no.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/no.yml — Norway (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/no.yml — Norway (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # THE ONE STRUCTURAL FACT THAT SHAPES THIS FILE, AND IT IS THE OPPOSITE OF
 # SPAIN'S: Norway's HISTORIC plate formats are instrument-dated to the day,
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 #   Note the FOR number: 1994-10-04-918, not the 1994-03-25-918 that circulates.
 #
 # A MISTAKE MADE AND CAUGHT IN THIS PASS, recorded because it is the exact
-# defect PRD-PLATES §9 warns about. The § 2-11 footnote lists twelve amending
+# defect the plates spec §9 warns about. The § 2-11 footnote lists twelve amending
 # forskrifter, and reading FOR-2015-07-13-888 suggested it "introduced" the
 # green varebil plate in § 2-11 tredje ledd bokstav b. It did not. That
 # forskrift RENUMBERED the whole of kapittel 2 (the colour rules had lived in
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ series:
         The gap between letter group and digit group is a printed GAP with no
         glyph — no instrument prescribes a separator, since no instrument
         prescribes the composition at all. Written as the emitted SPACE per
-        PRD-PLATES §2.6 and optional in the regex.
+        the plates spec §2.6 and optional in the regex.
     design:
       plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm }
       plate_variants:
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ series:
       - "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge  # secondary-wikipedia (rev. 2026-07-16): the source treats 1971-2001 as ONE plate design and records no 1982 event at all — the disagreement noted below. Accessed 2026-08-02"
     notes: >-
       THE SECOND TWO-LETTER ORDER, 1 April 1982 to 31 December 2001. A REAL
-      DISAGREEMENT, recorded rather than averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3): the
+      DISAGREEMENT, recorded rather than averaged (the plates spec §5.3): the
       authority's regulation splits the two-letter era at 31 March 1982 and
       names a different technical specification on each side, while every
       secondary source consulted — including a plate image captioned
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ series:
       E-series combination is what lets toll plazas, bus lanes, ferries and
       parking enforce zero-emission privileges from the plate alone, which is
       why it is modelled as a series in its own right rather than a note on
-      no-standard-2002 (PRD-PLATES §2.3 period limb — it starts three years
+      no-standard-2002 (the plates spec §2.3 period limb — it starts three years
       earlier). NOT A LEGAL CLASS, and this is an evidenced negative worth
       having: neither FOR-1990-01-25-92 kapittel 2 nor kjøretøyforskriften
       kapittel 39 mentions elbil, elektrisk drift or EL-kjennemerke anywhere.
@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ series:
       progression: >-
         THE FIRST DIGIT IS THE ISSUING POLICE DISTRICT — 1 Oslo, 2 Larvik,
         3 Kristiansand, 4 Stavanger, 5 Bergen, 6 Trondheim, 7 Troms. A small
-        decode, inline rather than in a decode file per PRD-PLATES §2.4. In 2004
+        decode, inline rather than in a decode file per the plates spec §2.4. In 2004
         Oslo exhausted its combinations and restarted its sequence from the
         beginning, so the digit does NOT support any age inference.
       district_codes:
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ series:
           _meta/separators.yml's emitted SPACE is serial-significant rather
           than a group gap, and a separator-stripping consumer will silently
           collapse "MIN BIL" to "MINBIL". Recorded rather than resolved: it is
-          a genuine tension with PRD-PLATES §2.6, not a data error, and it
+          a genuine tension with the plates spec §2.6, not a data error, and it
           affects only this series.
           The authority narrows the statute further by plate size — seven
           characters fit the 52 x 11 cm plate, six the small, US and motorcycle

data/data/plates/nz.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/nz.yml — New Zealand (PRD-PLATES gate L3).
+# plates/nz.yml — New Zealand (the plates spec gate L3).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour and class claim in this file is read off one of two
 # instruments on legislation.govt.nz, or off a NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 #    THEREFORE PRINTS NO SEPARATOR GLYPH AND TREATS INTERNAL SPACING AS
 #    NON-IDENTITY-BEARING: every `pattern` and every regex in this file is
 #    written contiguously, with no emitted separator at all, and a consumer's
-#    separator-forgiving tier (PRD-PLATES § 2.6) is what absorbs a plate that
+#    separator-forgiving tier (the plates spec § 2.6) is what absorbs a plate that
 #    happens to be set with a gap.
 #
 # 4. THE BLACK PLATE OF 1964 IS NOT HISTORY — IT IS A CURRENT LAWFUL FORM.
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
 # `format.regex_statutory` carries the outer bound of the CURRENT law — reg
 # 33(1)'s bare six- or five-character cap — which is far wider than anything
 # issued and is the reason `matching: strict` is still correct on the standard
-# series (PRD-PLATES § 2.7: narrower than the statute is still strict).
+# series (the plates spec § 2.7: narrower than the statute is still strict).
 jurisdiction: nz
 authority:
   name: NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (the Registrar of Motor Vehicles under Part 17 of the Land Transport Act 1998)
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ common:
       it if you turn the plate to a 15–30-degree angle. This helps to identify if
       a plate is authentic or fake." A RETROREFLECTIVE-SHEETING WATERMARK, not
       printed artwork: it is visible only off-axis, it carries no information,
-      and a renderer must not draw it as a graphic element (PRD-PLATES § 3).
+      and a renderer must not draw it as a graphic element (the plates spec § 3).
     manufacture: >-
       Plates are manufactured under contract, not by the agency. NZTA routes
       duplicate orders to LicenSys ("0800 REMAKE") and personalised sales to
@@ -447,12 +447,12 @@ common:
       though CR marks are attested on New Zealand ministerial cars long before
       2011 (see nz-government-cr notes).
     agency_disagreement: >-
-      RECORDED, NOT AVERAGED (PRD-PLATES § 5.3). NZTA's own history page groups
+      RECORDED, NOT AVERAGED (the plates spec § 5.3). NZTA's own history page groups
       the marks wrongly: "Diplomatic plates – for vehicles owned by embassies,
       consulates and high commissions (DC, DCC, FC and FCC plates) and
       ministerial vehicles (CC, CCC, CR and CROWN plates)." Schedule 4 assigns CC
       and CCC to CONSULAR missions, not to ministers. THE INSTRUMENT IS THE
-      AUTHORITY (PRD-PLATES § 5.3: "MAJORITY IS NOT AUTHORITY; the authority is
+      AUTHORITY (the plates spec § 5.3: "MAJORITY IS NOT AUTHORITY; the authority is
       the authority"), so this file follows Schedule 4 and records the agency
       page's error here.
     source: "https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html  # reg 37 and Schedule 4, all five rows verbatim"
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ classes_not_modelled:
       limb (b) — "a letter, number, symbol, or distinguishing mark" — so the
       crown IS the identifier in law. A regex cannot express this and none is
       authored; a renderer must place the emblem and no characters.
-    emblem_risk: "the New Zealand crown device is a vice-regal insignia; PRD-PLATES § 3's neutral-placeholder rule applies and no artwork is claimed clean"
+    emblem_risk: "the New Zealand crown device is a vice-regal insignia; the plates spec § 3's neutral-placeholder rule applies and no artwork is claimed clean"
     sources:
       - "https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html  # Schedule 4 item 1; reg 3 'unique identifier' limb (b); reg 37(2) 'distinguished solely by the symbol'"
   supplementary:
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ series:
         33(1)(b), which prescribes nothing but a six-character cap: under it
         "4ZZ99Z" is a perfectly lawful ordinary identifier that this series
         would never issue. A match on `regex` is a real claim about THIS series
-        (PRD-PLATES § 2.7, the us-fl case), which is why `matching` is `strict`.
+        (the plates spec § 2.7, the us-fl case), which is why `matching` is `strict`.
       progression: >-
         NZTA, verbatim: "The new series of three letters and three numbers – from
         AAA104 ongoing to ZZZ999 – offers about 17.6 million possible
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ series:
       THE REFLECTORISED TWO-LETTER PLATE — same mark space as nz-standard-1964,
       opposite colours. Cut as its own series and not as a design variant
       because BOTH the period and the design differ, which is exactly the
-      PRD-PLATES § 2.3 test, and because the two colourways are not successive
+      the plates spec § 2.3 test, and because the two colourways are not successive
       states of one specification: reg 33(4) still offers them as live
       alternatives (a) and (b) with no cut-off, so a consumer needs to be able
       to say "black-on-white, two letters, so issued between November 1986 and
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ series:
         obvious candidate is reg 33(1)(a)'s five-character cap — but the fullest
         shape this series' own grammar allows, three numerals plus three letters,
         is SIX characters, so the 2011 cap does not contain this series' regex and
-        writing it as `regex_statutory` would have inverted the PRD-PLATES § 2.7
+        writing it as `regex_statutory` would have inverted the plates spec § 2.7
         tier order. The cap post-dates the series' issuance window in any case.
         The correct outer bound is SR 1995/136 cl 2(3)(a)(ii) itself, which
         `regex` already carries.
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ series:
       secondary account that a numeral-first trailer shape replaced it that year,
       against an agency page that still calls A111A-Z999Z current — and the agency
       page is visibly stale elsewhere (it also calls the pre-2007 motorcycle range
-      current). Both readings are recorded and neither is averaged (PRD-PLATES
+      current). Both readings are recorded and neither is averaged (the plates spec
       § 5.3). A verifier with access to a current NZTA trailer-series statement
       settles this in one step; until then, treat the end date as the softest
       claim in this file.
@@ -992,12 +992,12 @@ series:
       display: "one plate, rear (reg 39(2))"
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Zealand  # SECONDARY, and the ONLY source for this arrangement and its 2024 start; accessed 2026-08-02. Extracted as a FACT under PRD-PLATES § 4's Wikipedia row and tagged `secondary-wikipedia` at point of use; the article's own section carries an 'unsourced section' banner"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Zealand  # SECONDARY, and the ONLY source for this arrangement and its 2024 start; accessed 2026-08-02. Extracted as a FACT under the plates spec § 4's Wikipedia row and tagged `secondary-wikipedia` at point of use; the article's own section carries an 'unsourced section' banner"
       - "https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html  # reg 33(1)(a) the five-character cap, 33(4)(b) the colours, 39(2) the single rear plate — everything about this series EXCEPT its arrangement"
     notes: >-
       THE REPORTED CURRENT TRAILER SHAPE, CARRIED ON A SECONDARY AND FLAGGED IN
       EVERY FIELD THAT MATTERS. It is authored rather than dropped because
-      jurisdiction-completeness (PRD-PLATES § 5.1) asks for the CURRENT series of
+      jurisdiction-completeness (the plates spec § 5.1) asks for the CURRENT series of
       every core class, and because a tagged secondary claim is recoverable in one
       pass while a silent omission is not. Everything here except the arrangement
       and the year is instrument-sourced. The same secondary reports two
@@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ series:
         `[A-Z0-9]{1,6}` is reg 34(2)'s cap and nothing narrower exists to state:
         it necessarily contains every ordinary, trade and official identifier in
         New Zealand, so a match means "this string is a shape New Zealand could
-        have issued" and never "this is a personalised plate". PRD-PLATES § 2.7's
+        have issued" and never "this is a personalised plate". The plates spec § 2.7's
         recall-only definition — "a union, a catch-all ... a shape hit and nothing
         more" — describes it exactly. `regex_strict` is forbidden here and none is
         wanted: the Registrar's refusal grounds (reg 34(3): already allocated,
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ series:
           NZTA states the palette in its own words: personalised plate
           characters "can be: white or silver on a black background; black, red
           or blue on a white background." A colour-only variant of the same
-          format and the same series, hence a sub-entry (PRD-PLATES § 2.3) and
+          format and the same series, hence a sub-entry (the plates spec § 2.3) and
           not a series of its own. Its 2022 launch is a secondary claim and is
           NOT carried as a period.
         evidence: secondary-wikipedia
@@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       THE HEAVY TRADE PLATE — a distinct series and not a variant, because the
       numeral run is FOUR rather than five and the vertical field carries an extra
-      token, so both the format and the design differ (PRD-PLATES § 2.3). It came
+      token, so both the format and the design differ (the plates spec § 2.3). It came
       into existence with the Road User Charges regime's vocabulary: reg 36(1)(a)
       defines its scope by reference to a "heavy RUC vehicle (within the meaning
       of the Road User Charges Act 2012)", and NZTA translates that into the 3500
@@ -1559,7 +1559,7 @@ series:
 research_notes:
   wikipedia_dependent_claims:
     rule: >-
-      PRD-PLATES § 4's Wikipedia row authorises fact extraction on four
+      the plates spec § 4's Wikipedia row authorises fact extraction on four
       conditions, the first of which is that every Wikipedia-derived fact is
       tagged. Here is the complete enumeration for New Zealand, so that a future
       decision to revisit the override can find every one of them in a single
@@ -1611,7 +1611,7 @@ research_notes:
       NEW ZEALAND IS A VEHICLESDB REGISTRY SOURCE, AND THAT MAKES IT A CORPUS
       CANDIDATE. NZTA publishes Motor Vehicle Register extracts and a
       registrations dashboard as open data; where a licensed extract carries
-      plate strings, the PRD-PLATES § 5.2 corpus test applies exactly as it does
+      plate strings, the plates spec § 5.2 corpus test applies exactly as it does
       to the Dutch kenteken set — the CURRENT series' regexes should jointly
       match ≥ 99.9% of current New Zealand plates. The joint expression to test
       is nz-standard-2001 ∪ nz-standard-1986 ∪ nz-standard-1964 for cars,

data/data/plates/pl.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/pl.yml — Poland (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/pl.yml — Poland (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour, dimension and class claim here is read from a Polish
 # primary instrument fetched in this pass through the Sejm's ELI API
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ common:
       pkt 2.12's rule that layout follows Rysunki 9-25, with the substitute
       rectangles of Rysunek 27 used for the digit 1 and the letters I, J, L and T.
     licence: >-
-      PRD-PLATES §6 applies unchanged: the render layer derives glyphs from the
+      the plates spec §6 applies unchanged: the render layer derives glyphs from the
       statutory drawing, never from a third-party TTF. Whether Poland has a
       German-style §5 UrhG public-domain rule for designs published inside
       statutory instruments was NOT researched in this pass — recorded gap, and
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ common:
       it OFF moped plates and temporary plates.
     rendered: placeholder
     render_note: >-
-      PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule applies. The eagle is a state emblem under
+      the plates spec §3 placeholder rule applies. The eagle is a state emblem under
       the 1980 ustawa o godle and its licensing posture was not researched here;
       the render layer draws a neutral placeholder in the slot.
     source: "https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2024/1709/text/O/D20241709.pdf  # § 28 ust. 4 pkt 1 and ust. 6; załącznik nr 12 pkt 2.6 lit. b. Accessed 2026-08-02"
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ series:
         from the bottom, with a two-letter prefix 105 mm from the left and
         66.5 mm from the bottom. The sticker moves to a different ROW of the
         two-row plate according to how long the prefix is — the same pressure
-        PRD-PLATES §2.2 records for Japan, and a `format.fields` case if the
+        the plates spec §2.2 records for Japan, and a `format.fields` case if the
         render bundle ever needs it.
     region_encoding: "plates/_decode/pl-powiats.yml"
     sources: