This rule applied on a 40-year exemption basis, and until 2021 rolled forward automatically each year on 1 April to include vehicles manufactured before the first of January forty years prior.
Subsequently, the requirement was modified by the Finance Act 2014, to allow any vehicles registered within the 'historic vehicles' tax class to use the older style pre-1973 black number plates. This was first required on all vehicles manufactured after 1 January 1973, having been optional before then. Number plates must be made of reflex-reflecting material, white at the front and yellow at the rear, with black characters. Number plates must be displayed in accordance with the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001. The EU band on this plate says GB, (Great Britain), the official code for all of the UK (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) at the time. The front plate of a vehicle registered in County Down issued prior to 2021. The international vehicle registration code for the United Kingdom is UK. Other schemes relating to the UK are also listed below.
Until July 2014, Northern Ireland's system was administered by the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) in Coleraine, which had the same status as the DVLA. Both systems are administered by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) in Swansea. Within the UK itself, there are two systems: one for Great Britain, whose current format dates from 2001, and another for Northern Ireland, which is similar to the original 1904 system. Front plates are white, whereas rear plates are yellow. Vehicle registration alphanumeric plates in the UK are rectangular or square in shape, with the exact permitted dimensions of the plate and its lettering set down in law. The Act was passed in order that vehicles could be easily traced in the event of an accident, contravention of the law or any other incident. The Motor Car Act 1903, which came into force on 1 January 1904, required all motor vehicles to be entered on an official vehicle register, and to carry alphanumeric plates. It is compulsory for motor vehicles used on public roads to display vehicle registration plates, with the exception of vehicles of the reigning monarch used on official business. Vehicle registration plates (commonly referred to as "number plates" in British English) are the imperative alphanumeric plates used to display the registration mark of a vehicle, and have existed in the United Kingdom since 1904.
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