Nova Scotia licence plate: Standard 1979

Retired 1979 to 1989. Standard 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, Standard 1979 (1979 to 1989), sample LRE 761

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example LRE 761 (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
1979 to 1989. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. 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
Both boundaries are the article's, unfootnoted.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nova_Scotia
  2. MVA s. 19(3): the Registrar may require the return of plates 'upon the termination of the lawful use thereof', the mechanism by which a superseded Nova Scotia plate leaves the road https://web.archive.org/web/20251124192915/https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/legc/statutes/motor%20vehicle...

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-ns-standard-1979. 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-standard-1979")'