Saskatchewan licence plate: Standard 1977

Retired 1977 to 1998. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI), as administrator of the Saskatchewan Auto Fund and the driver and vehicle registry. One of 3 Saskatchewan license plates.

Saskatchewan (Canada) license plate, Standard 1977 (1977 to 1998), sample THC 144

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example THC 144 (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
1977 to 1998. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #00693E Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
Three letters then three numerals, reported from 1977 to May 1998, and issued under the TWO-PLATE regime that ran until 30 June 2004, so this series' vehicles are the ones the 2004 release's grandfathering clause is about. Entirely secondary.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Saskatchewan
  2. the two-plate regime in force throughout this series https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2004/june/28/saskatchewan-moves-to-a-single-plate-on-june-30th

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-sk-standard-1977. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Saskatchewan's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-sk \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-sk-standard-1977")'