Variable Description
Pre-1994 All vehicles: Year of manufacture.
Circa 1994 Used imports and re-registrations: Year of first registration or year of manufacture. New vehicles: Year of manufacture or model year.
1 July 1995 A significantly redeveloped MVR was implemented and the current licence label format was introduced. The year provided was entered into a data field named ‘year of manufacture’, but printed on the licence label as vehicle year. The data field was later renamed ‘vehicle year’ to encompass the varying date attributes being provided.
November 1999 All vehicles: Year of manufacture or, if year of manufacture unknown, year of first registration.
28 February 2005 Used vehicles and re-registrations: Year of manufacture or, if year of manufacture unknown, year of first registration. New vehicles: Year of manufacture.
5 December 2005 All vehicles: Year of manufacture or model year. 1 January 2007 All vehicles: Year of first registration.
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