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British Columbia licence plate: Standard 2014

Retired 2014 to 2025. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), as delegate of the Province under the Motor Vehicle Act. One of 13 British Columbia license plates.

British Columbia (Canada) license plate, Standard 2014 (2014 to 2025), sample HV226A
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL999L, for example HV226A (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2014 to 2025. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #12326E Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE TWO ENDS OF THIS PERIOD HAVE DIFFERENT EVIDENCE GRADES AND THE KEY SAYS SO. The END is strong: ICBC bulletin 33 (9 June 2025) tabulates @@###@ as the "Current pattern" being replaced for Passenger, which dates the changeover to 2025 from the authority. The START is weak: 2014 comes only from the per-jurisdiction encyclopedia article used as a finding aid, whose format-history row carries no footnote; no ICBC or provincial source dating the AB1-23C arrangement was found. Treat 2014 as unverified.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 'Current pattern' column = @@###@; old-inventory exhaustion rule https://partners.icbc.com/assets/5GMseymkqs8E4Otb8osoGQ/bulletin-33-new-licence-plate-configurations.pdf
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_British_Columbia

Before and after

British Columbia (Canada) license plate, Standard 2025 (2025 to today) Replaced by Standard 2025 2025 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-bc-standard-2014. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of British Columbia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-bc \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-bc-standard-2014")'
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