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Nova Scotia licence plate: Standard 1989

Issued today 1989 to today. 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 1989 (1989 to today), sample MSF 222
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example MSF 222 (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
1989 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and truck.
Colours
Characters #003C71 Background #F2F2F2
Size
30.48 × 15.24 cm (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
Its SIZE, FIELD COLOUR, LETTERING COLOUR, LEGENDS and CENTRAL GRAPHIC are all quoted from N.S. Reg. 124/2005, sideways, because that regulation describes the personalized plate, and a Nova Scotia personalized plate is this plate with a chosen serial. The predecessor is authored below. NOTE FOR THE PARSE LAYER: three letters and three numerals is the most common plate shape in North America, so a bare ABC 123 string is very weakly diagnostic of Nova Scotia, it collides with the current Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick series in this very wave.
How numbers are issued
the article's issuance record runs BRT 001 (1989) through the F, G and H letter blocks; there is NO date and NO region signal in a Nova Scotia serial
Separators
a printed gap, not a glyph; the Personalized regulation's 'with or without spaces' language (s. 7(2)(e)) is the authority's own confirmation that the space is optional

Legal basis and sources

  1. MVA s. 19(1),(2): plates are furnished to the OWNER and display 'the registration number assigned to the owner and such other matter as the Minister may determine'; s. 20(2): the 300 mm mounting rule https://web.archive.org/web/20251124192915/https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/legc/statutes/motor%20vehicle...
  2. Number Plates Regulations, N.S. Reg. 173/95 ss. 1(b), 2(1): one plate, on the rear, for a passenger or light commercial motor vehicle https://novascotia.ca/just/regulations/regs/mvnumber.htm
  3. Personalized Number Plates Regulations, N.S. Reg. 124/2005 s. 7(2)(a)-(d): the 15.24 x 30.48 cm size, the silver-white field, the Bluenose depiction and the blue NOVA SCOTIA / CANADAS OCEAN PLAYGROUND legends, quoted... https://novascotia.ca/just/regulations/regs/mvprsnum.htm
  4. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nova_Scotia

Before and after

Nova Scotia (Canada) license plate, Standard 1979 (1979 to 1989) It replaced Standard 1979 1979 to 1989

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-ns-standard-1989. 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-1989")'
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