page_title: Vehicle registration plates of Brunei
section_title: Fundamental design
hierarchical_section_title: Vehicle registration plates of Brunei / Fundamental design
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of the rear of a car in Brunei. Brunei Car License Plate. Own work.
context_page_description: License plates are displayed on all motorized road vehicles in Brunei, as required by law. The issue of license plates is regulated and administered by the Brunei Land Transport Department. All vehicles must also display two of the same license plates numbers of the same colours at the front and rear of the vehicles. All vehicle license plates in Brunei, other than those issued to royalty, diplomats and taxis, have white characters on a black background, regardless of the vehicle type.
context_section_description: The most common form of Brunei licence plates, in use since the introduction of motorised vehicles in the country's British colonial era, typically begin with one or more letters followed by up to four numerical digits with no leading zeroes. Thus, the configuration of a common Brunei number plate may be in the form of BB 1234. Brunei number plates bears similarity to Malaysian state of Selangor and Kedah number plates which also begin with "B" and "K".
  
  The sequence of licensed numbers, since 1 January 1984, issued begins with xA 1 to xY 9999. The prefix "x" is either "B" for cars registered with the Brunei-Muara Land Transport Department prior to 2006, or "K" for cars registered with the Kuala Belait Land Transport Department prior to 2006.  After 2006, the letter "K" is assigned to all cars irrespective of the location that the cars are registered.  The table below shows the possible combinations in use.  Special cases are also listed in the table.  Some letters are not used - these are listed in the  (letters I, O and Z are not used to avoid ambiguity with numbers or other forms of local license plates). 
  Since the prefix 'B' plate finished, the Land Transport Department decided to restart the prefix 'B' plate with 'BA', which consists of 3 letters and up to 4 numbers in the form of  "Bxx 1234".
  The format is used in virtually all classes of vehicles with engines, including, unless stated later:
  Private vehicles (cars, motorcycles, vans, trucks and other vehicles of similar design).
  Commercial and industrial vehicles (vans, trucks - light or heavy, buses, road-legal vehicles for construction and excavation and other vehicles of similar design).
  Service vehicles (police cars, ambulances, fire engines, public utility vehicles and other vehicles of similar design).
  The shape and size of Brunei license plates on vehicles, with the exception of motorcycles and scooters, are restricted to either 8.5 inch by 13.5 incy or 21 inch by 6 inch.  Vehicular plates on motorcycles are usually smaller at either 4.25 inch by 6.75 inch or 8.5 inch by 3 inch.  The size of the letters and numbers on the license plate is defined to be 3.5 inch by 2.5 inch by 0.625 inch for all vehicles except for motorcycles which is defined to be 1.75 inch 2.5 inch by 0.3125 inch.
caption: Typical three-numbered Brunei license plate.
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