Chương III Thông tư 24/2023/TT-BCA : Biểu mẫu, thời hạn sử dụng chứng nhận đăng ký xe, xác định năm sản xuất của xe và biển số xe

Chapter III

FORM, VALIDITY PERIOD OF CERTIFICATE OF VEHICLE REGISTRATION, DETERMINATION OF VEHICLE'S YEAR OF MANUFACTURER AND LICENSE PLATE

Article 34.  Appendices and forms used for vehicle registration

1. This Circular is promulgated together with the following appendices:

a) Appendix No. 01. Automobile registries at the Traffic Police Department;

b) Appendix No. 02. Signs of the license plate issued to domestic automobiles and motorcycles;

c) Appendix No. 03. Signs of license plates of automobiles and motorcycles of foreign organizations and individuals;

d) Appendix No. 04. Regulations on sizes of license plates, letters and numbers on license plates of automobiles, motorcycles, tractors, trailers and semi-trailers of domestic and foreign organizations and individuals.

2. This Circular is promulgated together with the following forms:

a) Certificate of motorcycle and moped registration (form DKX01);

b) Certificate of automobile registration (form DKX02);

c) Certificate of trailer and semi-trailer registration (form DKX03);

d) Electronic certificate of temporary vehicle registration (form DKX04);

dd) Certificate of temporary vehicle registration (form DKX05);

e) Certificate of tractor registration (form DKX06);

g) Certificate of revocation of vehicle registration and license plate (form DKX07);

h) Decision on revocation of vehicle registration and license plate (form DKX08);

i) Decision to stamp engine numbers, chassis numbers (form DKX09)

k) Issuance of inspection badges (form DKX10);

l) Supervisory book of temporarily imported and re-exported automobiles operating in economic – commercial zones (form DKX11);

m) Vehicle registration form (form DKX12);

n) Application form for revocation of vehicle registration and license plate (form DKX13);

o) Application guideline note (form DKX14).

Those built with the similar specifications to a single vehicle must adopt the registration form of the latter.

Article 35. Validity period of certificate of vehicle registration

1. The certificate of registration of a truck/passenger automobile/modified vehicle shall be written according to the service life as per the Government's regulations.

2. The certificate of registration of the vehicle owned by a foreigner working for a diplomatic mission, a consulate or a representative office of an international organization shall have the same expiry date as that of his/her Diplomatic Identity Card, Official Identity Card, Consul Identity Card, Honorary Consul Identity Card or Ordinary Identity Card; the certificate of registration of a vehicle owned by a foreigner residing and working in Vietnam shall have the same expire date as that of his/her permanent residence card, temporary residence card.

3. The certificate of automobile or motorcycle owned by a diplomatic mission, a consulate or a representative office of an international organization expires for the first period of 05 years, which shall be extended every 03 years.

Article 36. Determination of manufacturing year of a vehicle

With respect to imported vehicles and those that are manufactured and assembled from chassis automobiles or imported fully-built automobiles, the vehicle owners shall submit the certificate of quality assurance (or a written notification of exemption from the quality test) in relation to technical and environmental safety for imported motor vehicles, issued by the Vietnam Register, in order to specify the manufacturing year of these vehicles; otherwise, the manufacturing year shall be determined by the 10^th character of engine number, vehicle chassis number, as stipulated by applicable standards.

Article 37. Regulations on license plate

1. Material: the license plate is manufactured in metal, covered with a reflective paint and carved with a security symbol of the police under technical regulations of the Ministry of Public Security; temporary license plate specified in Appendix 02 enclosed with this Circular shall be printed on a piece of paper.

2. Symbol, series and size of letters and digits on registered license plate, applied to various types of vehicle, shall comply with regulations at Appendices 02, 03 and 04 attached to this Circular.

3. An automobile requires 02 license plates, including 01 short license plate with the following measurements: 165 millimeters in height and 330 millimeters in length and 01 long license plate with the following measurement: 110 millimeters in height and 520 millimeters in length.

a) Format of a license plate of a domestic organization/agency/individual: the first two numerals are the regional code, followed by a series of letters; the second group consists of 05 natural numbers ranging from 000.01 to 999.99;

b) Format of a license plate of an automobile of a foreign organization/agency/individual: the first two numerals are the regional code; the next three numerals are the country/organization code; the third group indicates that the vehicle belongs to a foreign individual or organization; the forth group consists of 02 natural numbers ranging from 01 to 99;

c) A tractor, trailer or a semi-trailer must affix 1 license plate at the back end of the vehicle with the measurements: 165 millimeters in height and 330 millimeters in length; the format is the same as that of domestic license plate.

4. A motorcycle must affix 1 license plate at the back with the measurements: 140 millimeters in height and 190 millimeters in length. 

a) Format of a license plate of a motorcycle of a domestic organization/agency/individual: the first group of numerals are the regional code, followed by a series of letters; the second group consists of 05 natural numbers ranging from 000.01 to 999.99. 

b) Format of a license plate of a motorcycle of a foreign organization/agency/individual: the first group of numerals are regional code, the second group of numerals are the country/organization code, followed by a series of letters; the forth group consists of 03 natural numbers ranging from 001 to 999.

5. Color and a series of license plate of a domestic organization or individual:

a) License plates have blue backgrounds, white letters and numbers, and series of 11 successive letters, such as: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M granted to automobiles owned by the Communist Party’s regulatory bodies; Office of the President and the National Assembly and other regulatory bodies of the National Assembly; Office of the National Assembly’s Delegation; the People’s Council at all administrative levels; Central Directing Committees; the People’s Public Security, Court, and Procuracy; ministries, ministerial bodies and the Government’s bodies; National Traffic Safety Committee; the People’s Committee at all administrative levels and other professional bodies of the People’s Committee of a province and district; political and social organizations; (Vietnamese Fatherland Front, Vietnam Trade Union, Communist Youth Union of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Women's Union, Vietnam Veterans Association, Vietnam Farmers' Union); public service providers, except a state-owned center of driving training and examination; a project management board with state administrative function;

b) License plates have blue backgrounds, white letters and numbers, series of 11 successive letters, such as: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M in connection with 01 natural number ranging from 1 to 9, granted to motorcycles owned by entities specified in point a of this Clause;

c) License plates have white backgrounds, black letters and numbers, and series of 20 successive letters, such as: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, P, S, T, U, V, X, Y, Z, granted to automobiles owned by domestic organizations/individuals, other than those specified in Point a of this Clause;

d) License plates have white backgrounds, black letters and numbers, series of 20 successive letters, such as: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, P, S, T, U, V, X, Y, Z in connection with one of 20 letters, such as: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, P, S, T, U, V, X, Y, Z, granted to motorcycles owned by domestic organizations/individuals, other than those specified in point a of this Clause;

dd) License plates have yellow backgrounds, black letters and numbers, series of 20 successive letters, such as: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, P, S, T, U, V, X, Y, Z, granted to automobiles used for transport business;

e) License plates have yellow backgrounds, red letters and numbers with symbols of residential locations where automobiles or motorcycles are registered and two-letter abbreviation of special economic - commercial zones according to regulations of the Government;

g) Certain license plate inscribed with a particular series of signs:

“CD” indicates special-purpose automobiles, including special-use vehicles of the police for the purpose of security;

“KT” indicates vehicles of military enterprises, issued at the request of the Department of Vehicles;

“RM” indicates a trailer or a semi-trailer;

“MK” indicates a tractor;

“TD” indicates vehicles that are domestically manufactured, assembled,  under a pilot plan approved by the Prime Minister, including 4-wheel motorized cargo vehicles or 4-wheel motorized passenger vehicles;

“HC” indicates an automobile operating in a certain restricted area;

Those that have the similar specifications to a single vehicle shall receive the registered license plate identical to the latter.

The color of the license plate inscribed with a particular series shall comply with regulations in Point a, Point c, Clause 5 of this Article.  

6. Color and a series of license plate of a foreign organization/agency/individual:

a) Designed with a white background, red letters, black numbers and a red series of the symbols “NG”, which shall be issued to diplomatic missions, consulates and foreign staff members who take possession of the diplomatic identity card at these entities. In particular, the license plate of the Ambassador and Consular General shall be inscribed with the registered number “01” inclusive of a red dash crossing over in the middle of letters showing the nationality and registered numeric order (the license plate 01 is re-issued upon registration of new vehicle);

b) Designed with a white background, red letters, black numbers and a red series of the symbols “QT”, which shall be issued to representative offices of international organizations and foreign staff members who take possession of the diplomatic identity card at these entities. In particular, the license plate of the head of a representative office of an United Nations’ organization shall additionally include a red dash crossing over in the middle of letters showing his/her nationality and registered numeric order;

c) Designed with a white background, black letters and numbers, and a series of the symbols “CV”, which shall be issued to technical and administrative staff who takes possession of official identity cards granted by diplomatic missions, consulates and international organizations;

d) Designed with a white background, black letters and numbers, and the symbol “NN”, which shall be issued to vehicles of representative offices or organizations and foreign individuals (except for those who have been regulated at Point a, b and c mentioned above).

7. The publication of a series of license plate, made by the local police authority, shall be carried out in a successive manner and ascending order, which entirely uses 20 consecutive series of one categorized symbol before changing to a new one.

8. Types of automobiles (except for automobiles with 09 seats or less), the vehicle owner shall draw or stick the license plate number on the back and sides of the vehicle; inscribe the name of the agency or unit and weight of the cargo, the weight itself on both sides of the vehicle door (except for individual vehicles).

9. License plates shall be manufactured at manufacturing enterprises and establishments affiliated to the Ministry of Public Security.  Manufacturing and provision of license plates shall follow the request of the vehicle registration authority.  The quality of initial license plate products (size, quality, security) shall be inspected and accepted by the Traffic Police Department before such license plates are manufactured and provided for the vehicle registration authority; during manufacturing and provision of license plates, manufacturing enterprises and establishments shall make statistics, update data, and connect and share this data with the vehicle registration and management system.