Ontario licence plate: Diplomatic

Issued today 1994 to today. Diplomatic plates for car and van, issued by Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO); plates and permits issued through ServiceOntario. One of 12 Ontario license plates.

Ontario (Canada) license plate, Diplomatic (1994 to today), sample 859 EPN

Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 859 EPN (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
1994 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #C8102E
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE WEAKEST-SOURCED SERIES IN THIS FILE, and it says so. Ontario publishes nothing about diplomatic plates; the federal page that would govern them was unreadable from this location. Everything here is the article's.

Legal basis and sources

  1. international.gc.ca https://www.international.gc.ca/protocol-protocole/policies-politiques/licence-plates-guidelines_lignes-directrices-p...
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ontario

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-on-diplomatic-1994. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Ontario's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-on \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-on-diplomatic-1994")'