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New Brunswick licence plate: Antique

Issued today 2003 to today. Historic plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Motor Vehicle Branch, Department of Justice and Public Safety (New Brunswick); registration transacted through Service New Brunswick. One of 9 New Brunswick license plates.

New Brunswick (Canada) license plate, Antique (2003 to today), sample YM1 947
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL9 999, for example YM1 947 (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
2003 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #C8102E Background #FFFFFF
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE HIDDEN GEM IS IN THE DEFINITIONS SECTION: New Brunswick's definition of "fictitious registration plate" carves out "a registration plate not furnished and issued for the current registration year that is attached to the FRONT of a motorcycle, an antique vehicle, a trailer, a semi-trailer or a vehicle that has a gross mass of less than 4 500 kg", i.e. after 2019 it is lawful to keep an expired plate on the front of your car, and the legislature said so in a definition rather than in an operative section. Format and period are the article's.
Who can have one
text: MVA s. New Brunswick's is younger AND stricter, a lower age bar with a restoration requirement.

Legal basis and sources

  1. MVA s. 1 (the 25-year restored-to-original definition, verbatim above); s. 29(1)(a)(i) (one plate for an antique vehicle); s. 1 'fictitious registration plate' definition, whose carve-outs expressly contemplate an... https://web.archive.org/web/20251201033750/https://laws.gnb.ca/en/showfulldoc/cs/M-17/
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Brunswick

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-nb-antique-2003. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Brunswick's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-nb \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-nb-antique-2003")'
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