Nunavut licence plate: Standard 2012

Retired 2012 to 2025. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Motor Vehicles Division, Department of Economic Development and Transportation, Government of Nunavut. One of 3 Nunavut license plates.

Nunavut (Canada) license plate, Standard 2012 (2012 to 2025), sample 262-857

Format, years and the law

Format
999-999, for example 262-857 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
2012 to 2025. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #1A1A1A Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE THIRTEEN YEARS WITHOUT A BEAR, AND WHY THEY HAPPENED SOMEWHERE ELSE. Reported: rectangular plates with black screened characters from July 2012, adopted because the Northwest Territories decided to update ITS version of the bear plate and Nunavut chose a new design rather than follow.
Separators
Six digits in two groups of three, as reported. Separator glyph unstated; separator-only class per § 2.8.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nunavut

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-nu-standard-2012. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Nunavut's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-nu \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-nu-standard-2012")'