Demerit System

Section 282(1) of The Motor Vehicle Act of Nova Scotia states that once a Record of Conviction is entered for a driver:

"the Registrar shall maintain a written record of the convictions of every person for violations of the provisions of this Act referred to in subsection (2)."

Record of out-of-Province convictions

(1A) Where a person licensed pursuant to this Act is convicted of an offence in another province of Canada equivalent to an offence set out in the table in subsection (2) and the Registrar has received from that other province a record of the conviction, the Registrar shall maintain a written record of the conviction.

Points: (2) The Registrar shall enter on the record of each person maintained pursuant to subsection (1) or (1A) in respect of each such conviction the number of points specified in the points table .

References:

Points Table

Demerit System Explained