Ontario drivers will soon no longer have to renew their licence plates, the premier announced Tuesday, as the province moves to automate the process.
is set to introduce automatic renewals for licence plates in Ontario as police report a surge in the number of drivers with expired credentials.
“Now, we’re getting rid of the re-registration. They’ll be automatically re-registered. So people won’t have to worry about that at all.”The new system of automatic licence plate renewal will only apply to drivers whose records are in “good standing,” a spokesperson for the Ministry of Transportation told Global News.
The spokesperson said further details on the policy will be unveiled later in the week. Those details will include how the province plans to deal with people who have unpaid fines or other registration issues.It is not yet clear if the automated system will come at any extra cost to the province.When will the change be implemented?