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Identification and Proof of Registration

regulations made under Section 10 and subsection 38(1) of the
Motor Vehicle Act
R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 293
O.I.C. 74-788 (July 23, 1974), N.S. Reg. 42/74
as amended by N.S. Reg. 340/90 (December 12, 1990)

1 The means of identification and proof of registration

(a) of a motor vehicle, trailer or motorcycle in respect of which the registration fee has been paid for a full registration year; or

(b) of a commercial vehicle or trailer in respect of which an installment of the registration fee has been paid for part of a registration year,

shall be a serially numbered sticker issued by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles for that registration year or part of a registration year.

2 The sticker mentioned in Section 1 shall be affixed to and displayed on a number plate in the area and in the position on the number plate as may be from time to time prescribed by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles.

3 On payment of the prescribed registration fee or installment of the registration fee for a registration year or part of a registration year, the registered owner shall be issued with one sticker for each number plate issued in respect of the vehicle.

4 These regulations apply to the means of identification and proof of registration of vehicles in respect of which the registration fee has been paid for the registration year 1974 and each registration year thereafter.

Registrar's Order made pursuant to Section 2 on December 12, 1990, in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Pursuant to Section 2 of the regulations respecting means of identification and proof of registration of vehicles pursuant to Section 38(1) of the Motor Vehicle Act, and, pursuant to Section 5 of the Regulations respecting Motor-Driven Cycles [made] pursuant to Section 10 of the Motor Vehicle Act, I hereby prescribe that stickers shall be affixed to and displayed on number plates in the following manner:

For the registration year 1992

Stickers for motorcycles and motor-driven cycles to be affixed to and displayed approximately centre at the bottom of the number plate. Stickers for all other vehicles shall be affixed to and displayed on the upper left-hand embossed corner of the number plate.

For the Registration year 1993

Stickers for all vehicles except motorcycles and motor-driven cycles to be affixed to and displayed on the upper right-hand embossed corner of the number plate.

Dated at Halifax, in the County of Halifax, Province of Nova Scotia, this 12th day of December, 1990.

(Signed) S.M. Ali
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
Province of Nova Scotia


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