vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/ar.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ar.yml — Argentina (PRD-PLATES gate L3).
+# plates/ar.yml — Argentina (the plates spec gate L3).
 #
 # EVERY format, period, dimension, colour and font claim in this file comes
 # from an Argentine or MERCOSUR instrument read in full. The chain, in the
@@ -81,14 +81,14 @@
 #    comercial roja, oficial azul, diplomático/consular dorada, especiales
 #    verde, de colección gris plata — and Ley 27.187 made that annex part of the
 #    Argentine legal order. Those are colour-only variants of one format and one
-#    period, so under PRD-PLATES §2.3 they are SUB-ENTRIES on the standard
+#    period, so under the plates spec §2.3 they are SUB-ENTRIES on the standard
 #    series, not series of their own.
 #
 # 5. THE SEPARATOR IS A GAP, NOT A GLYPH — AND THE AUTHORITY WRITES IT AS A
 #    SPACE. Res. GMC 33/14's Annex describes "un arreglo de siete caracteres";
 #    no instrument prescribes a separator character. Disposición 40/2016 writes
 #    the shapes as "AA 000 AA" and "A 000 AAA", so this file spells that gap as
-#    the emitted SPACE of PRD-PLATES §2.6 and makes it optional in every regex,
+#    the emitted SPACE of the plates spec §2.6 and makes it optional in every regex,
 #    exactly as plates/gb.yml does for the British 33 mm gap.
 jurisdiction: ar
 authority:
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ common:
   mercosur_spec:
     plate: { w: 400, h: 130, unit: mm, tolerance_mm: 2, thickness_mm: 1, thickness_tolerance_mm: 0.2 }
     motorcycle_plate: { w: 200, h: 170, unit: mm, tolerance_mm: 2 }
-    font: { name: "FE-Engschrift", cap_height_mm: 65, motorcycle_cap_height_mm: 53, license: "statutory reference by NAME, not by file — the instruments name the typeface and prescribe its cap height; no font is embedded (PRD-PLATES §6)" }
+    font: { name: "FE-Engschrift", cap_height_mm: 65, motorcycle_cap_height_mm: 53, license: "statutory reference by NAME, not by file — the instruments name the typeface and prescribe its cap height; no font is embedded (the plates spec §6)" }
     band: { side: top, pantone: "286 C", w: 390, h: 30, unit: mm, motorcycle_w: 196 }
     emblem_mercosur: { w: 32, h: 22, unit: mm, motorcycle_w: 25, motorcycle_h: 20, pantone: ["286 (azul)", "347 (verde)"], placement: "left edge of the logo begins 15 mm from the left border of the plate" }
     flag: { w: 28, h: 20, unit: mm, motorcycle_w: 23, motorcycle_h: 16, placement: "upper-right quadrant, 4 mm from the top and 4 mm from the right border, with a 1 mm white frame" }
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ series:
         horizontal en su parte superior, cuyo color es el Pantone Nº 286 C. La
         misma contiene el emblema oficial del Mercosur - República Argentina -
         Bandera Argentina." The hex is an OBSERVED rendering of the named
-        Pantone; Pantone coordinates are a licensed dataset (PRD-PLATES §6), so
+        Pantone; Pantone coordinates are a licensed dataset (the plates spec §6), so
         the standard is cited and the hex is marked observed.
       font: { name: "FE-Engschrift", cap_height_mm: 65 }
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "MERCOSUR emblem 32 × 22 mm at Pantone 286/347, left edge 15 mm from the plate's left border; Argentine flag 28 × 20 mm in the upper-right quadrant with a 1 mm white frame" }
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ series:
         Asimismo dicha lámina contiene una onda sinusoidal ubicada en forma
         horizontal." The Islas Malvinas outline is a SECURITY FEATURE written
         into Argentine registral law, and it is recorded here as the instrument
-        states it; it carries obvious political sensitivity and PRD-PLATES §3's
+        states it; it carries obvious political sensitivity and the plates spec §3's
         neutral-placeholder rule for emblems applies to it in the render layer
         exactly as it does to every other emblem.
       construction: >-
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ series:
         note: >-
           COMERCIAL use — red characters on the same white ground and the same
           dominio. Colour-only variant of this series, hence a sub-entry per
-          PRD-PLATES §2.3. No hex: see common.mercosur_spec.colours_by_use for
+          the plates spec §2.3. No hex: see common.mercosur_spec.colours_by_use for
           the OCR caution on the Pantone number.
         sources:
           - "https://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/250000-254999/253150/ley27187.pdf  # Res. GMC 33/14 Anexo § 2, 'Comercial — Roja'"
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ series:
     categories: [trailer]
     period: { start: 2019 }
     period_evidence: enabling-instrument
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): this plate carries the TOWING VEHICLE's
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): this plate carries the TOWING VEHICLE's
     # existing dominio, so its regex is the union of the Argentine shapes in
     # circulation. A match is a SHAPE hit — it says the string has a shape
     # Argentina has issued, never that it is a valid trailer registration.

data/data/plates/at.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/at.yml — Austria (PRD-PLATES gate L1).
+# plates/at.yml — Austria (the plates spec gate L1).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour, dimension and class claim here comes from two
 # instruments on ris.bka.gv.at, read in their consolidated tagesaktuelle
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 #    kann der Bindestrich entfallen."
 #    That is a rare thing: a primary source for BOTH the emitted separator AND
 #    for its being optional. Every `pattern` here prints the hyphen; every
-#    regex spells the position as the separator-only class `[- ]?` (PRD-PLATES
+#    regex spells the position as the separator-only class `[- ]?` (the plates spec
 #    §2.8), because the law prescribes a hyphen, permits its omission, and
 #    prescribes no glyph at all on the plate itself.
 #
@@ -141,7 +141,23 @@ common:
       5. Kraftfahrzeuge der Klasse L, M1, M2, M3, N1, N2 und N3 jeweils mit
          reinem Elektroantrieb oder mit Wasserstoff-Brennstoffzellenantrieb —
          weiß / grün."
-    retroreflective: "'Der Grund der Kennzeichentafeln muss aus rückstrahlendem Material bestehen.' (§ 49 Abs. 4 KFG) — unconditional, unlike the 1967 text which required it only for Z 1 and Z 2."
+    retroreflective: >-
+      'Der Grund der Kennzeichentafeln muss aus rückstrahlendem Material bestehen.'
+      (§ 49 Abs. 4 KFG) — unconditional, unlike the 1967 text which required it only
+      for Z 1 and Z 2.
+      CORRECTED BY THE §5.3 VERIFIER 2026-08-08 (finding F-5, researcher-signed only,
+      awaiting a countersigner; dossier data/review/plates-verify/at.yml): the
+      current-law claim is right, its history is off by thirty-five years. The
+      Z-1-and-Z-2 limitation was not "the 1967 text" — it was still the law in 2002.
+      § 49 Abs. 4 in der Fassung vom 01.01.2002, verbatim: 'Der Grund der
+      Kennzeichentafeln gemäß Z 1 und 2 muß aus rückstrahlendem Material bestehen.'
+      It became unconditional with BGBl. I Nr. 80/2002 on 1 November 2002 — the same
+      instrument and the same day as the EU field (§ 135 Abs. 10 KFG, verbatim:
+      '§ 49 Abs. 4, § 49 Abs. 4a und § 80 in der Fassung des Bundesgesetzes BGBl. I
+      Nr. 80/2002 treten mit 1. November 2002 in Kraft.'). Consequence for this
+      dataset: the blue Probefahrt, blue vorläufig and green Überstellung plates
+      were OUTSIDE the retroreflection duty for most of the period their series
+      claim, which is a real fact about how they looked.
     source: "https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49  # § 49 Abs. 4: the five-row colour table, the retroreflection rule, the EU field, the Land arms, the red-white-red edging, the temporary-registration year stripe, the Hohlprägung. Accessed 2026-08-02"
   colorimetry:
     basis: >-
@@ -197,7 +213,7 @@ common:
       inter-block gap, which is the visual reason an Austrian serial reads as
       two groups.
     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
       published geometry, never from a third-party TTF. Austria is a weaker case
       than Germany for the public-domain argument (no §5(1) UrhG equivalent was
       researched in this pass — recorded gap), which is one more reason to
@@ -242,7 +258,7 @@ common:
       5 mm high depending on word length.
     rendered: placeholder
     render_note: >-
-      PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule applies: nine Land arms plus the federal
+      the plates spec §3 placeholder rule applies: nine Land arms plus the federal
       arms plus the Feuerwehr-Korpsabzeichen, none licence-cleared. The
       Silber->Weiß / Gold->Gelb substitution is recorded because a renderer that
       ever does clear them will need it.
@@ -507,7 +523,7 @@ series:
         Wien W." Abs. 2 adds "Die Bezeichnung der Landeshauptstadt Graz hat im
         Kennzeichen zu lauten G, die Bezeichnung der Landeshauptstadt Linz hat im
         Kennzeichen zu lauten L." The instrument prints Steiermark as "St" in mixed
-        case; the dataset's serial alphabet is uppercase-only (PRD-PLATES §2.6), so
+        case; the dataset's serial alphabet is uppercase-only (the plates spec §2.6), so
         it is recorded as ST and the mixed-case printing is noted here.
       structure_note: >-
         § 48 Abs. 4 KFG 1967 as enacted, verbatim: "Das Kennzeichen muß mit einem
@@ -593,7 +609,7 @@ series:
         und die restlichen 5 Stellen des Vormerkzeichens in der unteren Zeile" —
         the serial is SPLIT ACROSS TWO LINES at a position that depends on its
         length. A single `pattern` string cannot express that; it is the same
-        pressure PRD-PLATES §2.2 records for Japan.
+        pressure the plates spec §2.2 records for Japan.
     design:
       plate: { w: 210, h: 170, unit: mm, note: "Muster VIII" }
       plate_variants:
@@ -680,6 +696,19 @@ series:
       era and a format from 1989. Class caveat: the same plate serves vierrädrige
       Leichtkraftfahrzeuge (L6e quadricycles), which are not mopeds; `moped` is the
       closest value in _meta/classes.yml and the wider scope is recorded here.
+      DATED BY THE §5.3 VERIFIER 2026-08-08 (finding F-4, researcher-signed only,
+      awaiting a countersigner; dossier data/review/plates-verify/at.yml): that
+      class caveat is true only FROM 2002-11-01, and this series begins in 1989.
+      § 49 Abs. 4 Z 2 in der Fassung vom 01.01.2002 read, verbatim, "2.
+      Motorfahrräder sowie für Anhänger gemäß Abs. 3 … rot / weiß" — no vierrädrige
+      Leichtkraftfahrzeuge. They joined the red row with BGBl. I Nr. 80/2002 in
+      force 1 November 2002, and the same instrument's § 135 Abs. 15 is explicit
+      that they had been WHITE: "Weiße Kennzeichentafeln, die für vierrädrige
+      Leichtkraftfahrzeuge ausgegeben worden sind, bleiben noch bis längstens 31.
+      Dezember 2002 gültig. Der Zulassungsbesitzer eines solchen Fahrzeuges hat
+      innerhalb dieser Frist die weiße Kennzeichentafel gegen eine rote
+      auszutauschen." For 1989-2002 a light quadricycle wore at-standard-preeu's
+      white plate, not this red one. The claim needs its date, not deletion.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # ELECTRIC — green script on white. Austria's cleanly dated EV plate.
@@ -737,6 +766,44 @@ series:
       KFG's colour table and inherits its geometry from whichever Muster its vehicle
       class would otherwise take. The regulation has not caught up with the statute;
       that is the regulation's problem, and it is recorded rather than papered over.
+      §5.3 VERIFIER 2026-08-08 — TWO FINDINGS, both researcher-signed only and
+      awaiting a countersigner; dossier data/review/plates-verify/at.yml.
+      F-2, THE PERIOD IS TWO COMMENCEMENTS AND THIS SERIES RECORDS ONE. § 49 Abs. 4
+      Z 5 AS ENACTED by BGBl. I Nr. 9/2017, in force 1 April 2017, read verbatim
+      "Kraftfahrzeuge der Klasse L, M1 und N1 jeweils mit reinem Elektroantrieb oder
+      mit Wasserstoff-Brennstoffzellenantrieb — weiß / grün". M2, M3, N2 and N3 were
+      added later, by BGBl. I Nr. 102/2017 Z 18, verbatim: "In § 49 Abs. 4 Z 5 wird
+      der Ausdruck „M1 und N1“ ersetzt durch „M1, M2, M3, N1, N2 und N3“." — in
+      force "mit Ablauf des Tages der Kundmachung" of a Bundesgesetzblatt
+      "Ausgegeben am 26. Juli 2017", i.e. 27 July 2017, which is also RIS's own
+      Inkrafttretensdatum for that Fassung. So `truck` (N2/N3) and `bus` (M2/M3)
+      are right today and wrong for the first 117 days of this series' period.
+      The two dates are recorded as two dates and NOT averaged: period.start has
+      not been moved to July (that would erase the car and moped truth) and the two
+      categories have not been dropped (that would erase the current truth). The
+      clean resolution is a second series id — which append-only permits — and it
+      is the maintainer's call. Corroborated off-host by the ministry that owns the
+      plate: infothek.bmimi.gv.at, "Grüne Kennzeichen jetzt auch für Elektro-Lkw",
+      "Neu zugelassene E-Lkw der Fahrzeugklassen N2 und N3 sowie E-Busse der
+      Fahrzeugklassen M2 und M3 erhalten das Kennzeichen mit grüner Schrift
+      automatisch". Where the ministry's loose "August" meets the
+      Bundesgesetzblatt's day, the instrument governs.
+      F-3, THE GREEN BORDER IS A MISREAD AND IT BELONGS TO THE VISUAL LANE.
+      design.border here is green for the whole series on the strength of an
+      elided quote. § 49 Abs. 4 eighth sentence, unelided: "Weiße
+      Kennzeichentafeln (Z 1 und Z 5, ausgenommen solche für Motorfahrräder und
+      vierrädrige Leichtkraftfahrzeuge) müssen an ihrer oberen und unteren Kante
+      rot-weiß-rot gerandet sein; Kennzeichentafeln für Motorfahrräder und
+      vierrädrige Leichtkraftfahrzeuge müssen weiß, solche gemäß Z 5 grün umrandet
+      sein." The ellipsis removed the SUBJECT of the second clause. Clause 1 puts
+      Z 5 inside the red-white-red rule, excepting only mopeds and light
+      quadricycles; "solche gemäß Z 5" in clause 2 means the electric ones AMONG
+      THOSE. An electric car therefore wears green script on white with
+      RED-WHITE-RED top and bottom edging; only an electric moped or light
+      quadricycle wears a green border. This file already reads the parallel
+      exception in the FIFTH sentence correctly, one sentence away, in the band
+      note below. The design block is NOT edited here — art and render specs are
+      the owner's lane, and this is routed there rather than applied.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # HISTORIC — HKT. Austria's oldtimer plate is a SHORT SERIAL, not a suffix.
@@ -847,7 +914,7 @@ series:
         They are plate-like badges alongside the Kennzeichen, not part of it, and are
         therefore not in the pattern.
     region_encoding: inline
-    region_encoding_note: "prefix decode in plates/_decode/at-districts.yml, diplomatic_consular block; the mission-identifying allocation inside the Vormerkzeichen is not published in the KDV and is NOT authored (PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic decode tables at L4)"
+    region_encoding_note: "prefix decode in plates/_decode/at-districts.yml, diplomatic_consular block; the mission-identifying allocation inside the Vormerkzeichen is not published in the KDV and is NOT authored (the plates spec puts diplomatic decode tables at L4)"
     sources:
       - "https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011385&Paragraf=26  # § 26 Abs. 5 lit. a: the D letter, its beneficiary definition (Legitimationskarte for the diplomatic corps in Vienna, for officials of international organisations in Austria with equivalent status, and for members of diplomatic rank of permanent missions), the Graz exception, and the security caveat 'sofern nicht aus Sicherheitsgründen die Zuweisung eines Kennzeichens gemäß Abs. 6 (Vormerkzeichen) erforderlich ist'; Abs. 6 Z 1 lit. c the serial grammar. Accessed 2026-08-02"
       - "https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=54  # § 54 Abs. 3 lit. a-c (who may display CD), Abs. 3b (household family members), Abs. 3c (how the sign is affixed and recorded). Accessed 2026-08-02"
@@ -1179,7 +1246,7 @@ series:
     categories: [trailer]
     period: { start: 2002 }
     period_evidence: enacted-commencement
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): § 49 Abs. 3 KFG issues these plates "mit
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): § 49 Abs. 3 KFG issues these plates "mit
     # dessen Kennzeichen" — the TOWING VEHICLE's registration — so the regex is
     # the union of the ordinary and the Wunschkennzeichen shapes. A match says
     # only that the string has a shape Austria issues; it is not a claim that
@@ -1330,6 +1397,20 @@ series:
       been repealed stays on the road exactly as in Germany. The one thing this
       series cannot tell you: § 48 Abs. 1 lets security fleets carry several
       Deckkennzeichen, so an unmarked police car deliberately does not read as BP.
+      CORRECTED BY THE §5.3 VERIFIER 2026-08-08 (finding F-1, researcher-signed
+      only, awaiting a countersigner): lit. b was NOT the Zollwache code. § 26
+      Abs. 4 in der Fassung vom 01.01.2006, verbatim: "b) für Fahrzeuge, die zur
+      Verwendung im Bereich der Bundesgendarmerie bestimmt sind, BG,". It was the
+      BUNDESGENDARMERIE code BG, repealed as the tidy-up of the 1 July 2005 merger
+      of the Gendarmerie into the Bundespolizei — which is why lit. a's BP survives
+      and lit. b does not. The repeal citations themselves are confirmed verbatim
+      (BGBl. II Nr. 275/2007 Z 19, "§ 26 Abs. 4 lit. b entfällt."; BGBl. II Nr.
+      376/2002 Z 8, "§ 26 Abs. 4 lit. d entfällt."). What lit. d CONTAINED is
+      unverified in either direction — it was already repealed in the earliest
+      consolidated Fassung the verifier could render — and should not be asserted.
+      A BG plate is a real string a parse API will meet: the Gendarmerie ran a
+      national fleet under this KDV for thirty-seven years. Dossier:
+      data/review/plates-verify/at.yml.
 
   - id: at-military
     class: military
@@ -1399,7 +1480,7 @@ series:
         present: true
         rendered: placeholder
         content: "the FEUERWEHR-KORPSABZEICHEN, not a coat of arms"
-        note: "§ 49 Abs. 4 KFG, verbatim: 'bei den zur Verwendung für die Feuerwehr bestimmten Fahrzeugen tritt an die Stelle des Landeswappens das Feuerwehr-Korpsabzeichen'. The only Austrian plate whose emblem slot holds a corps badge; PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule applies, and its licensing is unresearched."
+        note: "§ 49 Abs. 4 KFG, verbatim: 'bei den zur Verwendung für die Feuerwehr bestimmten Fahrzeugen tritt an die Stelle des Landeswappens das Feuerwehr-Korpsabzeichen'. The only Austrian plate whose emblem slot holds a corps badge; the plates spec §3 placeholder rule applies, and its licensing is unresearched."
     region_encoding: "plates/_decode/at-districts.yml"
     region_encoding_note: >-
       THE DISTRICT CODE IS A SUFFIX HERE, NOT A PREFIX. Decode the LAST one or two

data/data/plates/au-act.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/au-act.yml — Australian Capital Territory (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Australia).
+# plates/au-act.yml — Australian Capital Territory (the plates spec gate L3, Australia).
 #
 # THIS FILE CARRIES THE 1948 LETTER ALLOCATION — the one genuinely national fact
 # in Australian plates, and the reason plates/au-nsw.yml, plates/au-sa.yml and
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 #    grammar in terms, and — uniquely in this dataset — says what the DIAMOND
 #    between serial groups counts as.
 #
-# THE SEPARATOR IS A DIAMOND AND WE DO NOT WRITE IT (PRD-PLATES §2.6). ACT
+# THE SEPARATOR IS A DIAMOND AND WE DO NOT WRITE IT (the plates spec §2.6). ACT
 # plates print a diamond between groups (YGH♦75R). U+2666 is neither in the
 # serial alphabet nor in the emitted separator set, so no pattern or regex here
 # spells it; patterns spell the gap as an emitted SPACE and every regex accepts
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ instrument:
     one number. No separate series is authored for it — same number, same
     grammar, different mount.
   source: "https://www.legislation.act.gov.au/DownloadFile/sl/2000-12/current/PDF/2000-12.PDF  # Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulation 2000 (ACT), Republication No 62, authorised PDF, fetched and text-extracted 2026-08-02: s 49 issue rule, s 50 bicycle-rack plates, s 59 display"
-  licence: "ACT legislation is published by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel; the register states the material is authorised and accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au. Edicts of government (PRD-PLATES §4)."
+  licence: "ACT legislation is published by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel; the register states the material is authorised and accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au. Edicts of government (the plates spec §4)."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # THE 1948 ALLOCATION. Quoted here once for the whole Australian wave.
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ plate_stock:
     printed_glyph: diamond
     note: >-
       Printed between serial groups on ACT plates. Not written in any pattern or
-      regex (PRD-PLATES §2.6 permits only "-" and " " as emitted separators);
+      regex (the plates spec §2.6 permits only "-" and " " as emitted separators);
       patterns spell the gap as a SPACE. Flagged for the _meta/separators.yml
       owner with the agency's own "A diamond symbol or space counts as a
       character" sentence, which is the only government text found in this wave
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ display_rules:
     inverse of Florida's: § 316.605(1) F.S. sets a maximum of 60 in (1.52 m) and
     a MINIMUM of 12 in; the ACT sets a maximum only. Diagrams 59.1 and 59.2 are
     line drawings inside the instrument and are cited, never reproduced
-    (PRD-PLATES §6).
+    (the plates spec §6).
   agency_gloss: >-
     Access Canberra, verbatim: "Unless exempted, all characters on a numberplate
     must be fully visible when viewed from all positions within the areas
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ series:
         production from 3 July 2017.
       special_series_note: >-
         AGENCY-SOURCED, and a good example of a colour-only variant that is NOT
-        its own series under PRD-PLATES §2.3: "Rainbow numberplates are standard
+        its own series under the plates spec §2.3: "Rainbow numberplates are standard
         tin 'Y' series plates with a rainbow stripe along the bottom. You are
         unable to customise the size or numbers on these plates." Same format,
         same period, same issuing rule — a sub-entry, not a series.
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/20181003140711/https://www.accesscanberra.act.gov.au/app/answers/detail/a_id/2125/~/act-numberplate-information  # Access Canberra, archived 2018-10-03, fetched 2026-08-02: the 'Y' series is the standard issue and who does not get it; the blue-on-reflective-white colour rule; the rainbow variant's identity as a standard Y plate; replacement plates 'cannot be requested out of sequence'"
       - "https://www.legislation.act.gov.au/DownloadFile/sl/2000-12/current/PDF/2000-12.PDF  # Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulation 2000 (ACT) s 49: two plates for a motor vehicle, at least one for a motorbike, motortrike or trailer — the plate COUNT is statutory even though the format is not"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Australian_Capital_Territory  # secondary (CC BY-SA; facts extracted in our expression per the PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia rule, accessed 2026-08-02): the YLL 99L arrangement, its 1998 start on exhaustion of the previous arrangement, the slogan history and the block allocations. The 1998 date carries NO citation in the article"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Australian_Capital_Territory  # secondary (CC BY-SA; facts extracted in our expression per the plates spec §4 Wikipedia rule, accessed 2026-08-02): the YLL 99L arrangement, its 1998 start on exhaustion of the previous arrangement, the slogan history and the block allocations. The 1998 date carries NO citation in the article"
     notes: >-
       ACT GENERAL ISSUE, SECOND-GENERATION Y SERIES. The SHAPE is safe and the
       DATE is not, and the two are tagged separately on purpose. What the agency
@@ -320,10 +320,10 @@ series:
       ACT government source obtained states: when the three-letters/two-numerals/
       one-letter arrangement replaced the three-letters/three-numerals one. So
       `period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia` and 1998 is the article's claim,
-      flagged, not asserted (PRD-PLATES §9: primary-source-or-marked). THE ID IS
+      flagged, not asserted (the plates spec §9: primary-source-or-marked). THE ID IS
       DELIBERATELY UNDATED (`au-act-standard`, not `au-act-standard-1998`) for
       the same reason us-fl-standard is: minting a dated id on an uncited
-      boundary builds a dated id on sand, and the id contract (PRD-QUALITY
+      boundary builds a dated id on sand, and the id contract (the quality spec
       I-5/I-6) then forbids retracting it. When an agency date lands, the dated
       id is added and this becomes its former-id alias. RECORDED GAPS: the ACT
       issues plates to "public, government, diplomatic or heavy" vehicles on
@@ -381,12 +381,12 @@ series:
       single evidence tier for the pair would have hidden that asymmetry, which
       is exactly what the period discipline exists to prevent — plates/es.yml
       and plates/no.yml already carry compound tiers for the same reason.
-      NOTE ALSO A DATE DISAGREEMENT, recorded and not averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3):
+      NOTE ALSO A DATE DISAGREEMENT, recorded and not averaged (the plates spec §5.3):
       the agency says the first Y plates were issued in AUGUST 1968 commencing
       at YAA-000; the secondary article says "From September 1968 the Yaa-nnn
       series commenced (in blue on reflective white) at YAB. YAA was set aside
       for recalls of numericals." Different month, different opening
-      combination. The AGENCY IS THE AUTHORITY (PRD-PLATES §5.3: majority is not
+      combination. The AGENCY IS THE AUTHORITY (the plates spec §5.3: majority is not
       authority) and its August/YAA-000 reading is the one recorded; the
       article's is preserved here so a verifier can adjudicate rather than
       rediscover. The all-numeric ACT series that ran to 1968 (reported "from 1
@@ -437,10 +437,10 @@ series:
           are longer and thinner than standard numberplates and can also come in
           a European style slimline set"), sharing the scheme, the period and the
           issuing rule — hence a variant on this series rather than a series of
-          its own under PRD-PLATES §2.3.
+          its own under the plates spec §2.3.
     design:
       plate: { length_mm: 372, unit: mm }
-      plate_variants_note: "standard (372 mm), medium (317 mm) and short (190 mm) lengths, plus slimline and European styles, all agency-listed with their fees; the individual designs are out of scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5)"
+      plate_variants_note: "standard (372 mm), medium (317 mm) and short (190 mm) lengths, plus slimline and European styles, all agency-listed with their fees; the individual designs are out of scope (the plates spec §2.5)"
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
       colour_note: "the ten plastic-plate colour combinations Access Canberra lists are recorded in plate_stock.materials_quote; tin personalised plates follow the blue-on-white tin rule"
       custom_slogan_note: "nonstandard plates may carry a custom slogan of up to 14 / 25 / 30 characters by plate length, and a customer-supplied logo of up to seven colours supplied as .eps, .tif or .dxf — agency-stated"

data/data/plates/au-nsw.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/au-nsw.yml — New South Wales (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Australia).
+# plates/au-nsw.yml — New South Wales (the plates spec gate L3, Australia).
 #
 # AUSTRALIA IS FEDERATED THE US WAY, NOT THE GERMAN WAY: there is no national
 # plate format, no national design standard, and no Commonwealth registry for
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 # the Transport for NSW fact sheet of June 2024.
 #
 # REGEX POLICY (identical to plates/gb.yml and plates/us-fl.yml): `format.regex`
-# is the LINT-ROUND-TRIPPABLE regex written in PRINTED form (PRD-PLATES §2.6
+# is the LINT-ROUND-TRIPPABLE regex written in PRINTED form (the plates spec §2.6
 # rule 2) — the gap between groups is spelled as an optional emitted SPACE
 # because that is how the plate prints it and how `pattern` spells it. No NSW
 # plate prints a hyphen; the hyphenated renderings common on enthusiast sites
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ instrument:
     failed on 2026-08-02, and the Internet Archive holds no snapshot of the
     instrument's view URL. Consequently NOT ONE WORD of the NSW regulation is
     quoted in this file; every claim below comes from Transport for NSW pages,
-    which are primary authority publications in their own right (PRD-PLATES
+    which are primary authority publications in their own right (the plates spec
     §4), or is marked secondary. The verifier with a browser should read the
     2017 Regulation and re-audit this file first — it is the largest single
     sourcing gap in the Australian wave.
-  licence: "NSW Government material on nsw.gov.au is published under Crown copyright with a stated copyright page; the fact claims extracted here are uncopyrightable facts (PRD-PLATES §4)"
+  licence: "NSW Government material on nsw.gov.au is published under Crown copyright with a stated copyright page; the fact claims extracted here are uncopyrightable facts (the plates spec §4)"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The national layer. Recorded once per Australian file because it is real,
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ series:
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
       - "https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/vehicle-registration/vehicle-number-plates/order-reserve-or-replace-number-plates  # Transport for NSW (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-12-05, accessed 2026-08-02): plates remain TfNSW property; new plates issued on first registration; the reserve/exchange machinery. NEGATIVE FINDING: the page never states the general-issue combination"
-      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/New_South_Wales/nswy2k.html  # enthusiast reference (PRD-PLATES §4 corroboration class), read via the Internet Archive, accessed 2026-08-02: a photo-dated 2010 NSW plate captioned 'serial style in use since 2004 and still in current use', and a NSW plate described as a remake of the 'standard black on yellow serial'. Corroborates the 2004 start and the colour words INDEPENDENTLY of the locator"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_South_Wales  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4), accessed 2026-08-02: the two-letter/two-numeral/two-letter arrangement and the 2004 changeover. Used as a finding aid; its citations were chased and none reaches a NSW instrument"
+      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/New_South_Wales/nswy2k.html  # enthusiast reference (the plates spec §4 corroboration class), read via the Internet Archive, accessed 2026-08-02: a photo-dated 2010 NSW plate captioned 'serial style in use since 2004 and still in current use', and a NSW plate described as a remake of the 'standard black on yellow serial'. Corroborates the 2004 start and the colour words INDEPENDENTLY of the locator"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_South_Wales  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4), accessed 2026-08-02: the two-letter/two-numeral/two-letter arrangement and the 2004 changeover. Used as a finding aid; its citations were chased and none reaches a NSW instrument"
     notes: >-
       NEW SOUTH WALES GENERAL ISSUE. THE FORMAT AND THE PERIOD ARE BOTH
       SECONDARY, AND THIS SERIES SAYS SO RATHER THAN DRESSING THEM UP. What was
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ series:
       source verified. THE ID IS DELIBERATELY UNDATED (`au-nsw-standard`, not
       `au-nsw-standard-2004`) for exactly the reason us-fl-standard is: minting
       a dated id on a folklore boundary builds a dated id on sand, and the id
-      contract (PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6) then forbids taking it back. When an
+      contract (the quality spec I-5/I-6) then forbids taking it back. When an
       agency or instrument date lands, the dated id is added and this one
       becomes its former-id alias.
 
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ series:
       evidence: secondary
       charset: { notes: "three letters then three numerals — the arrangement every Australian State ran for most of the second half of the twentieth century, under the 1948 letter allocation described in plates/au-act.yml. NSW's own block of that allocation, and any letter exclusions, are not published" }
     design:
-      colour_note: "black on yellow for the later part of the run; the earlier colour history of NSW plates was not researched (out of scope at this gate — PRD-PLATES §2.5)"
+      colour_note: "black on yellow for the later part of the run; the earlier colour history of NSW plates was not researched (out of scope at this gate — the plates spec §2.5)"
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_South_Wales  # LOCATOR ONLY, accessed 2026-08-02: the three-letter/three-numeral general issue and its 1951-2004 window. BOTH boundaries are the locator's, uncited in its own text"
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ series:
           rule, not a grammar — it does not even settle whether the serial is
           all-numeric. So `matching: recall-only` and the regex is an explicit
           catch-all over the serial alphabet: a match is a shape hit and nothing
-          more (PRD-PLATES §2.7). Narrowing it when the arrangement lands is a
+          more (the plates spec §2.7). Narrowing it when the arrangement lands is a
           one-line change; guessing it now would be a fabricated fact.
     design:
       plate: { w: 317, h: 134, unit: mm }

data/data/plates/au-nt.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/au-nt.yml — Northern Territory (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Australia).
+# plates/au-nt.yml — Northern Territory (the plates spec gate L3, Australia).
 #
 # THE NORTHERN TERRITORY IS THE JURISDICTION THAT NEVER JOINED THE 1948 SCHEME,
 # and that is the fact that shapes this file. Every other Australian
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # read via the Internet Archive because the live host returns HTTP 403 to
 # machine clients) gives the issuing rule, the "right to display" doctrine and
 # the confirmation that a "general issue plate" is the default. That is a real
-# authority publication (PRD-PLATES §4) and it is quoted verbatim below.
+# authority publication (the plates spec §4) and it is quoted verbatim below.
 #
 # WHAT IS NOT. THE INSTRUMENT WAS NOT READ IN THIS PASS. legislation.nt.gov.au
 # returned HTTP 404 to every URL form attempted on 2026-08-02 (the portal's
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@
 #
 # AND THE FORMATS ARE SECONDARY, ALL OF THEM. No NT government page obtained
 # states the general-issue combination. The formats and their dates come from
-# the English Wikipedia article, mined per the Wikipedia Rule (PRD-PLATES §4,
+# the English Wikipedia article, mined per the Wikipedia Rule (the plates spec §4,
 # owner override 2026-08-02): its own citations were chased — the two NT
 # Government newsroom media releases it cites are dead, and archive.today
 # rate-limited the request (HTTP 429) on 2026-08-02 — so every such fact carries
 # `period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia` plus the article URL, which is the
 # reversibility guarantee that rule exists for.
 #
-# THE SEPARATOR IS A DIAMOND AND WE DO NOT WRITE IT (PRD-PLATES §2.6). NT plates
+# THE SEPARATOR IS A DIAMOND AND WE DO NOT WRITE IT (the plates spec §2.6). NT plates
 # print a diamond between groups (CC♦73♦IQ). U+2666 is neither in the serial
 # alphabet nor in the emitted separator set, so patterns spell the gap as an
 # emitted SPACE and regexes accept it optionally; the glyph is recorded as a
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ national_context:
     (bigrigs.com.au, dead, archived) that was not fetched and is not asserted.
   sources:
     - "https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/sl-2021-0113  # Transport Operations (Road Use Management-Vehicle Registration) Regulation 2021 (Qld) sch 8, fetched 2026-08-02 — the two national heavy-vehicle definitions quoted above"
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northern_Territory  # secondary (CC BY-SA; facts extracted in our expression per the PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia rule, accessed 2026-08-02): the claim that the NT never adopted the three-letter scheme and that its proposed X block went to Western Australia — uncited in the article"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northern_Territory  # secondary (CC BY-SA; facts extracted in our expression per the plates spec §4 Wikipedia rule, accessed 2026-08-02): the claim that the NT never adopted the three-letter scheme and that its proposed X block went to Western Australia — uncited in the article"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Plate stock. AND A DISCREPANCY INSIDE THIS WAVE, RECORDED RATHER THAN HIDDEN.
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ plate_stock:
     printed_glyph: diamond
     note: >-
       Printed between serial groups. Never written in a pattern or regex here
-      (PRD-PLATES §2.6 emits only "-" and " "); patterns spell the gap as a
+      (the plates spec §2.6 emits only "-" and " "); patterns spell the gap as a
       SPACE. Flagged for the _meta/separators.yml owner with the ACT agency
       sentence quoted in plates/au-act.yml.
 
@@ -220,24 +220,23 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://nt.gov.au/driving/registration/number-plates-apply-or-transfer-plates  # Northern Territory Government, read via the Internet Archive 2026-08-02: 'You will be given a general issue plate unless you want to apply for personalised plates' — the agency's confirmation that a general-issue class exists and is the default. NEGATIVE FINDING, recorded: the page never states the combination"
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northern_Territory  # secondary (accessed 2026-08-02): the Ca-nn-aa format, the 23 October 2009 announcement, the January 2011 unveiling and the June 2011 first issue, and the slogan change. The article cites an NT Government newsroom media release for the 2009 announcement; that URL is DEAD and its archive.today copy returned HTTP 429 on 2026-08-02 — the citation was chased and not reached"
-      - "https://vehiclesdb-pipeline/aux/research/plates-2026-07/plates-research-us-world.md  # this programme's own pinned research appendix, §2.5: an independent capture of the NT's 'Ca·nn·aa' format and 'ochre on white' colours. Corroboration, not a source of record"
     notes: >-
       THE NORTHERN TERRITORY'S FIRST ALPHANUMERIC GENERAL ISSUE, AND A TEXTBOOK
       THREE-DATE ROLLOUT. The secondary source gives three different dates for
       one series and they are all real: ANNOUNCED 23 October 2009 (by an NT
       Government media release), UNVEILED January 2011, AVAILABLE FOR ISSUE June
-      2011. PRD-PLATES §2.2 anticipates exactly this ("rollouts need three
+      2011. The plates spec §2.2 anticipates exactly this ("rollouts need three
       dates ... `period.rollout:` sub-keys when they differ") and the Mercosur
       rollout is its worked example. No rollout sub-keys are written here for
       one reason only: all three dates come from the SAME uncited paragraph, so
       recording them as structured data would dress one weak source as three
       strong ones. `period.start: 2011` is the FIRST-ISSUE year, which is what
-      period.start means (PRD-PLATES §4 instrument-date rule: the year the
+      period.start means (the plates spec §4 instrument-date rule: the year the
       format began), and the announcement year is deliberately not used —
       announcing a format is not issuing it. THE ID IS DELIBERATELY UNDATED
       (`au-nt-standard`, not `au-nt-standard-2011`), as in every other file of
       this wave, because minting a dated id on an uncited boundary builds a
-      dated id on sand (PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6). VERIFIER TARGET: the NT Government
+      dated id on sand (the quality spec I-5/I-6). VERIFIER TARGET: the NT Government
       newsroom media release of 23 October 2009 ("Territory Growth Brings Change
       to Number Plates") is the document that would turn this whole entry
       primary. It is dead at source; archive.today holds a copy at
@@ -330,7 +329,7 @@ series:
         and the characters were re-centred (reported to have lasted about 2,500
         plates); version 3 from October 2015 on the standard Australian
         motorcycle plate stock, from the A-8900s. Same grammar throughout, so
-        one series with a note rather than three series (PRD-PLATES §2.3: own
+        one series with a note rather than three series (the plates spec §2.3: own
         series iff format OR design OR period differs — these differ in
         FURNITURE, and no source gives clean boundaries).
     region_encoding: none
@@ -403,14 +402,14 @@ series:
           seven-character cap borrowed from ANOTHER jurisdiction's plate-capacity
           rule (the ACT's 372 mm plate "can have up to seven characters"). Hence
           `matching: recall-only`: a match is a shape hit and nothing more
-          (PRD-PLATES §2.7), and a `regex_strict` here would be a contradiction.
+          (the plates spec §2.7), and a `regex_strict` here would be a contradiction.
     design:
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
       note: >-
         Reported colour options, secondary: ochre on white, black on white and
         black on yellow bases, with slogan options "N.T. - OUTBACK AUSTRALIA",
         "N.T. - NATURE TERRITORY" or plain "N.T."; slimline plates from the
-        early 2000s. Individual designs are out of scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5).
+        early 2000s. Individual designs are out of scope (the plates spec §2.5).
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
       - "https://nt.gov.au/driving/registration/number-plates-apply-or-transfer-plates  # Northern Territory Government, read via the Internet Archive 2026-08-02: 'You will be given a general issue plate unless you want to apply for personalised plates'; the section index naming the personalised, club-vehicle and souvenir-plate subpages; the right-to-display lapse rule that governs the combination"
@@ -422,7 +421,7 @@ series:
       `period_evidence: agency-page-in-force`, the weakest honest reading. The
       secondary source puts the scheme's origin in the 1990s; a bare decade is
       not a start year and is deliberately not promoted into `period.start`
-      (PRD-PLATES §9: primary-source-or-marked, and a marked guess is still a
+      (the plates spec §9: primary-source-or-marked, and a marked guess is still a
       guess). `matching: recall-only` follows from the §2.7 test read straight:
       the regex is wider than anything the MVR issues, because what the MVR
       issues is unpublished. VERIFIER TARGET: the four nt.gov.au subpages named

data/data/plates/au-qld.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/au-qld.yml — Queensland (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Australia).
+# plates/au-qld.yml — Queensland (the plates spec gate L3, Australia).
 #
 # QUEENSLAND IS THE AUSTRALIAN JURISDICTION WHERE THE LAW AND THE AGENCY BOTH
 # TALK. Two primaries carry this file:
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 # while the FORMAT is the Minister's. Splitting those two claims apart — same
 # series, different evidence grades — is the whole discipline.
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES §2.6): the Minister writes the new combination
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec §2.6): the Minister writes the new combination
 # "456-BZ8" with a hyphen; the plate prints a gap, not a hyphen. `pattern` and
 # `regex` spell the printed form with an optional emitted SPACE, per §2.6
 # rule 2, and a forgiving consumer deletes the Minister's hyphen anyway.
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ instrument:
   reprint_read: "reprint current as at 2026-08-01 (publication.date attribute of the OQPC XML), administering department recorded in the instrument as 'Department of Transport and Main Roads'"
   stage_repeal: "the instrument carries an automatic expiry date of 1 September 2031 (stage repeal) — a Queensland drafting convention, not a plate fact, recorded so nobody reads it as a series end"
   source: "https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/sl-2021-0113  # the whole regulation; read as OQPC XML at /view/whole/xml/inforce/current/sl-2021-0113 on 2026-08-02"
-  licence: "Queensland legislation is published by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel; the site's robots.txt permits the /view/whole/ paths used here. Edicts of government — quoted, not embedded (PRD-PLATES §4)"
+  licence: "Queensland legislation is published by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel; the site's robots.txt permits the /view/whole/ paths used here. Edicts of government — quoted, not embedded (the plates spec §4)"
 
 national_schemes:
   heavy_vehicle: >-
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/20180701170407/http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/2018/7/1/new-combination-seals-queensland-number-plate-future  # 'New combination seals Queensland number plate future', Minister for Transport and Main Roads the Hon. Mark Bailey, Queensland Cabinet and Ministerial Directory, Sunday 1 July 2018 (read via the Internet Archive, accessed 2026-08-02): the new three-numeral/two-letter/one-numeral combination with the worked example, the 'unique to Queensland' claim, the directional security mark under consideration, and the Y/Z-series exhaustion timeline"
       - "https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/sl-2021-0113  # reg 2021 s 117: the chief executive assigns the registration number and issues one or two plates — the grammar is nowhere in the instrument, which is the negative half of the sourcing story"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Queensland  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4), accessed 2026-08-02: the September 2020 first issue of this series. Uncited in the article; used as a finding aid and flagged, not asserted"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Queensland  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4), accessed 2026-08-02: the September 2020 first issue of this series. Uncited in the article; used as a finding aid and flagged, not asserted"
     notes: >-
       QUEENSLAND'S CURRENT GENERAL ISSUE, WITH ITS TWO CLAIMS GRADED
       SEPARATELY. THE FORMAT IS AUTHORITY-SOURCED: a serving Minister described
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ series:
       SA and TAS one-back series carry. The END is the locator's and is flagged.
       The 2001 mid-series colour change is recorded on the design rather than
       used to split the series, because a colour-only variant of the same
-      format and period is a sub-entry, not a series (PRD-PLATES §2.3).
+      format and period is a sub-entry, not a series (the plates spec §2.3).
 
   # =========================================================================
   # PERSONALISED — the framework is in the instrument, and the instrument
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ series:
           deliberate catch-all over the serial alphabet.
       uniqueness_rule: "s 132(6), quoted above — the one constraint the law actually imposes"
     design:
-      note: "designs are the supplier's catalogue, not the instrument's; individual personalised DESIGNS are out of scope at this gate (PRD-PLATES §2.5)"
+      note: "designs are the supplier's catalogue, not the instrument's; individual personalised DESIGNS are out of scope at this gate (the plates spec §2.5)"
     programme:
       operator: "Personalised Plates Queensland (PPQ)"
       statutory_hook: >-
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ series:
       Queensland has run personalised plates for decades under predecessor
       instruments that were not read in this pass (recorded gap). Dating a
       programme by the instrument that most recently restates it is the
-      instrument-date disease PRD-PLATES §4 names, so it is labelled
+      instrument-date disease the plates spec §4 names, so it is labelled
       `instrument-in-force-upper-bound` rather than dressed up as a start.
       Modelled as its own series because the SERIAL SOURCE differs — owner-chosen
       rather than department-assigned — which is a format property even where