Québec licence plate: Consular CC

Issued today 1991 to today. Consular plates for car and van, issued by Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ). One of 16 Québec license plates.

Québec (Canada) license plate, Consular CC (1991 to today), sample CC 4416

Format, years and the law

Format
CC 9999, for example CC 4416 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
1991 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Consular: consular corps where distinct from diplomatic. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #003DA5 Background #FFFFFF
Size
30 × 15 cm (300 × 150 mm) · every country's size
Who can have one
text: Règlement art. 99, opening verbatim: « Peut porter le préfixe “CC”, la plaque d'immatriculation d'un véhicule de promenade: 1° qui est un véhicule officiel appartenant à un État étranger qui a un poste consulaire établi au Québec, dirigé par un fonctionnaire consulaire de carrière au sens de la Convention de Vienne sur les relations consulaires conclue le 24 avril 1963; ... ». translation note: OUR TRANSLATION: a passenger vehicle's plate MAY bear the CC prefix where the vehicle is an official vehicle of a foreign state with a consular post established in Québec headed by a CAREER consular officer within the meaning of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 24 April 1963.. cap: Art. 99 in fine: at most two vehicles for a person within paragraph 3, and one for a person within paragraph 4.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Règlement art. 99, verbatim above, with its caps https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fr/document/rc/C-24.2,%20r.%2029
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Quebec

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-qc-consular-cc. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Québec's series:

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