Nova Scotia licence plate: Antique

Issued today 2009 to today. Historic plates for car, van, and truck, issued by Registry of Motor Vehicles, Nova Scotia (Service Nova Scotia); regulations made by the Minister and the Governor in Council under the Motor Vehicle Act. One of 9 Nova Scotia license plates.

Nova Scotia (Canada) license plate, Antique (2009 to today), sample F902

Format, years and the law

Format
L999, for example F902 (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
2009 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, and truck.
Colours
Characters #003C71 Background #FFFFFF
Size
30.48 × 15.24 cm (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
AUTHORED BECAUSE THE REGULATION NAMES THE CLASS. Number Plates Regulations s. 1(a) puts "a vehicle to bear ... antique plates" in the two-plate list, so Nova Scotia law knows the class exists and how it is displayed; everything else, the 2009 start, the L999 arrangement, the ANTIQUE AUTO side legend, is the article's. 7(1.1) states a 30-year test in the Act.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Number Plates Regulations ss. 1(a), 2(4): 'a vehicle to bear ... antique plates' is a two-plate class, front and rear, the one PRIMARY fact about this series https://novascotia.ca/just/regulations/regs/mvnumber.htm
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nova_Scotia

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-ns-antique-2009. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Nova Scotia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-ns \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-ns-antique-2009")'