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Nunavut licence plate: Standard 2025

Issued today 2025 to today. 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 2025 (2025 to today), sample 827-839
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Format, years and the law

Format
999-999, for example 827-839 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
2025 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #0033A0 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
PERIOD: the return was ANNOUNCED with a date and ISSUED without one. What is well sourced is the announcement, Minister David Akeeagok told the Legislative Assembly on 2024-11-05 that the bear plate was returning as part of Nunavut's 25th-anniversary programme, that the project began early in 2024 and was expected to be complete in December 2024, and that "we signed an agreement with the Government of the Northwest Territories allowing us to create our own bear-shaped plate without infringing any trademark legalities". The 2024 announcement is the corroborating context and is NOT used as the start year, announcing is not issuing, and this programme has been burned by that conflation before. FORMAT: the reported serial is six digits in two groups of three, i.e. the SAME grammar as the rectangular series it replaces. If that is right, the 2025 change is a DESIGN change on an unchanged format, the mirror image of British Columbia's 2025 change, which is a format change on an unchanged design.
Separators
THE GAP HOLDS AN INUKSUK. The reported design places an inuksuk between the two three-digit groups.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nunavut
  2. 2024-11-08: the announcement, the 25th-anniversary rationale, the NWT agreement quote, the explicit absence of a roll-out date https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/polar-bear-licence-plates-coming-back-to-nunavut/
  3. the shape is the GNWT's registered trade-mark https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/1050364

Before and after

Nunavut (Canada) license plate, Standard 2012 (2012 to 2025) It replaced Standard 2012 2012 to 2025

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-nu-standard-2025. 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-2025")'
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