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Buying & Selling a Vehicle: What Changed in 2026

Registration deadlines, plate rules and transfer requirements by province.

4 verified buying & selling a vehicle changes logged in 2026, each checked against its official source. See every topic in the 2026 year in review or everything in date order.

• Verified 2026-10-16 · Manitoba · Vehicles

  A search of Manitoba’s Personal Property Registry, the lien search a used-vehicle buyer runs, costs $16.30 in 2026 under the fees regulation. There is one search fee, not separate electronic and printed prices. Our Paperwork Index showed $13 electronic and $19 printed.

  $13 electronic / $19 printed → $16.30 per search (2026 regulated fee)

  Source: Personal Property Registry Fees Regulation, M.R. 72/2014

  Updated: The Canadian Paperwork Index

• Verified 2026-10-08 · British Columbia · Vehicles

  Corrected: in BC, the giver and receiver can sign FIN 319 before going to the Autoplan broker. Our gift page said it had to be signed at the broker.

  FIN 319 (Gift of a Vehicle): both parties sign at an ICBC Autoplan broker → FIN 319 (Gift of a Vehicle): the giver and receiver sign it at or before registration (it can be signed ahead of time), then bring the completed form to an ICBC Autoplan broker

  Source: Government of British Columbia, FIN 319 (Gift of a Vehicle)

  Updated: Gifting a vehicle in BC

• Verified 2026-08-20 · Saskatchewan · Vehicles

  Our Saskatchewan pages told buyers they had to register a privately purchased vehicle within 14 days. That deadline does not exist. We re-checked all four official SGI sources, including Bulletin PST-78, which is the source our own code comment cited, and none of them publishes any day-count for a buyer to register after a private in-province purchase. What SGI does require is that the vehicle be registered before it is driven, and a permit covers driving an unregistered vehicle to a motor licence issuer. So this is a verified negative rather than a gap in our research: there is no deadline to miss, and no penalty is published for missing one. While confirming it we found the one official Saskatchewan day-count in this area, which we have added: a 7-day grace period to move a plate from a vehicle you have sold to the vehicle that replaces it. That grace period is the most likely origin of the 14-day figure that circulates on third-party sites.

  the buyer must register within 14 days of a private purchase → no published day-count; register before the vehicle is driven, plus a 7-day sell-and-replace plate grace period

  Source: SGI: New and used vehicles, and Cancel or change registration

  Updated: Buying a car in Saskatchewan, Selling a car in Saskatchewan, Missed the vehicle transfer deadline, The buyer never transferred the car, Canadian paperwork index

• Verified 2026-08-20 · Ontario · Vehicles

  Ontario publishes a 30-day deadline for new residents to register a vehicle brought in from another province, but not where you would look for it. The ServiceOntario page on registering an out-of-province vehicle states no day-count at all, which is why we had been holding the figure back rather than showing readers a deadline we could not point at. The Official MTO Driver’s Handbook states it plainly: new Ontario residents have 30 days to register their vehicles. Our Ontario page now names the handbook as the source of the 30 days and says outright that the service page does not carry it, so anyone checking our work knows which document to open. Note what the rule attaches to: it is a new-resident rule, like Alberta’s 90 days, not a deadline that starts when you buy a car. No penalty for missing it is published anywhere we could find, and we have not invented one.

  no day-count shown as sourced; the linked ServiceOntario page publishes none → 30 days for new Ontario residents, sourced to the Official MTO Driver’s Handbook; no penalty published

  Source: Official MTO Driver’s Handbook: Vehicle insurance and registration

  Updated: Registering an out-of-province vehicle in Ontario, Moving to Ontario