Ontario drivers won't need to renew their licence plates anymore, Ford announces
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Premier Doug Ford says drivers in Ontario will soon be able to skip the annual registration of their licence plates as the province works to make this process automatic.
Premier Doug Ford says drivers in Ontario will soon be able to skip the annual registration of their licence plates as the province works to make this process automatic.
Ford made the announcement at a news conference in Toronto on Tuesday morning.
“We are getting rid of that totally. Registering your vehicle, we did the first step, getting rid of the stickers. Now we are getting rid of the re-registration,” the premier said in response to a question about a surge in expired plates on Ontario roads.
“It will be automatically re-registered so people won’t have to worry about that at all.”
Ford’s announcement comes following a report in the Toronto Star that found there are currently more than one million expired licence plates in Ontario as more and more motorists forget to renew now that the process is free.
The Ford government previously eliminated all fees associated with the annual registration of licence plates in 2022.
As of March 13, 2022, drivers of passenger vehicles, motorcycles, mopeds and light commercial vehicles were no longer required to pay to renew their licence plates or put a sticker on them. The cost to renew licence stickers for the year was previously $60 in northern Ontario and $120 in southern Ontario.
