British Columbia licence plate: Standard 2025
Issued today 2025 to today. 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L999LL, for exampleX336WJ(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
- 2025 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#12326EBackground#FFFFFF - About this plate
- Rollout, verbatim: "ICBC will be gradually introducing new licence plate character configurations on some British Columbia licence plates.
- How numbers are issued
- not published. ICBC states only that the recut exists to extend the six-character space; no block-allocation order was found.
- Separators
- ICBC prints the pattern and its example SOLID.
Legal basis and sources
- pattern, alphabet, rollout month, unchanged-base statement https://partners.icbc.com/assets/5GMseymkqs8E4Otb8osoGQ/bulletin-33-new-licence-plate-configurations.pdf
- MVA s. 12(1)(b): the design is ICBC's to determine https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96318_01
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is ca-bc-standard-2025. 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-2025")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-standard-2025.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-standard-2025/template.svg
