Tax Stamp
Between 1993 and 2011, self-adhesive tax stamps in primary colours were issued annually to every car that had valid road tax and insurance and had passed its latest biannual safety and emissions test. The stamps included the registration number in the form of a bar code, and changed colour every year on a three-year cycle: red, blue and yellow.
The tax stamp was discontinued in 2012. The police will now rely on automated systems which photograph the number plate, identify the registration number using optical character recognition, and check the car's status in a database.
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