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Northwest Territories licence plate: Regular

Issued today 1986 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Government of the Northwest Territories (Department of Infrastructure, Driver and Vehicle Services). One of 14 Northwest Territories license plates.

Northwest Territories (Canada) license plate, Regular (1986 to today), sample 591342
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Format, years and the law

Format
999999, for example 591342 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
1986 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #0033A0 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
Nothing in R-054-94 or the Act dates any serial length, and R-054-94 itself post-dates 1986 by eight years, an instrument that DOCUMENTS an older practice, which is precisely the case the instrument-date rule exists to stop us mis-dating. DESIGN REFRESH, RECORDED BUT NOT MADE A SERIES BOUNDARY: secondary reporting puts a graphic and material update at 2010, and the regulation's own amendment history contains R-054-2010, in force 1 July 2010. The coincidence of years is suggestive and is NOT evidence, the content of R-054-2010 was not inspected, and a fee amendment would sit in the same slot. Recorded as a lead, not a claim. SHAPE: the bear silhouette is reported as introduced in 1970 for the territorial centennial and retained since. That is a DESIGN fact spanning several serial series and is not used to date this one.
How numbers are issued
ascending; a secondary source records the range reaching 378949 as of 2024-11-05.

Legal basis and sources

  1. reg. 8(2)(i) 'regular, displaying numbers' https://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/en/files/legislation/motor-vehicles/motor-vehicles.r12.pdf
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northwest_Territories
  3. the shape is a registered trade-mark of the GNWT https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/1050364

Before and after

Northwest Territories (Canada) license plate, Regular 1970 (1970 to 1985) It replaced Regular 1970 1970 to 1985

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-nt-regular. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Northwest Territories's series:

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