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Nova Scotia licence plate: Personalized

Issued today 2005 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and motorhome, 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, Personalized (2005 to today), sample ACHTQVZ
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLLL, for example ACHTQVZ (L is any letter)

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

Years issued
2005 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and motorhome.
Colours
Characters #003C71 Background #F2F2F2
Size
30.48 × 15.24 cm (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE KEYSTONE REGULATION OF THIS FILE. 124/2005 and, in the same Order, amended the Number Plates Regulations to put personalized vehicles in the two-plate class, two instruments moving together, which is what a real programme start looks like. It is NOT a claim that Nova Scotia had no vanity plates before 2005; it is a claim about THIS regime.
Who can have one
text: s. 3, verbatim: "Personalized plates may be used for all of the following types of motor vehicles: (a) a bus with a registered weight of 5000 kg or less; (b) a camper; (c) a motorcycle; (d) a commercial motor vehicle with a registered weight of 5000 kg or less, other than an ambulance or a hearse; (e) a passenger vehicle.". no vehicle needed: s. 4(2), verbatim: 'A person may apply for personalized number plates without registering a motor vehicle, but personalized number plates that are not used for vehicle registration must not be attached to a motor vehicle.'

Legal basis and sources

  1. Personalized Number Plates Regulations, O.I.C. 2005-248 (9 June 2005), N.S. Reg. 124/2005, ss. 1-9, every quotation above, read 2026-08-02 https://novascotia.ca/just/regulations/regs/mvprsnum.htm
  2. Number Plates Regulations s. 1(a) as amended by N.S. Reg. 123/2005: personalized vehicles joined the two-plate list by the SAME Order in Council; s. 2(3): one of the two goes on the rear https://novascotia.ca/just/regulations/regs/mvnumber.htm
  3. MVA s. 19(2): 'such other matter as the Minister may determine', the statutory hook this regulation hangs on https://web.archive.org/web/20251124192915/https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/legc/statutes/motor%20vehicle...

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-ns-personalized-2005. 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-personalized-2005")'
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