Nova Scotia licence plate: Firefighter
Issued today 1991 to today. Specialty 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL9, for exampleMVD2(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
- 1991 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, and truck.
- Colours
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Characters
#003C71Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 30.48 × 15.24 cm (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- Who can have one
- The Ministerial Order's own operative words: plates issued after 1 April 1991 "in the case of firefighters employed within the Province of Nova Scotia for passenger motor vehicles and commercial motor vehicles registered for a weight of 5000 kilograms or less shall have the following appearance".
Legal basis and sources
- Number Plates for Firefighters Regulations, N.S. Reg. 49/91, Ministerial Order dated 18 March 1991 made under MVA s. 36(1), clauses (a)-(e), every quotation above, read 2026-08-02 https://novascotia.ca/just/regulations/regs/mvnpfire.htm
- Number Plates Regulations ss. 1(a), 2(4): firefighter plates are a two-plate class, front and rear https://novascotia.ca/just/regulations/regs/mvnumber.htm
This plate in your app
The series id is ca-ns-firefighter-1991. 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-firefighter-1991")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-ns/ca-ns-firefighter-1991.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-ns/ca-ns-firefighter-1991/template.svg
