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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 following table:

POINT SYSTEM TABLE

Description	Motor Vehicle Act Section Violated	Demerit Points:
Careless and Imprudent Driving	Section 100	6
Speeding or Dangerous Driving	Section 101	6
Failing to Stop at Accident or perform any duty imposed by Section 97	Section 97	6
Speeding in School Bus	Section 103(6)	6
Racing	Section 163	6
BAC Exceeds .08	Section 100A(1)	6
Fail to Comply with Demand	Section 100A(4)	6
Pass School Bus or failure to obey crossing guard	Section 103(3), 125(A)	6
Failure to Yield to Pedestrian	Section 125(1), 125(2)	4
Improper Passing	Section 114, 115(1)(a)	4
Fail to Obeyt Traffic Control Person	Section 107B	4
Speeding in excess of prima facie speed limit	Section 102(4)	4
Speeding in excess of posted limit	Section 103(1)	4
Speeding by 31 km/h or over	Section 106(A)(c)	4
Speeding by 16 to 30 km/h	Section 106(A)(b)	3
Speeding by 1 to 15 km/h	Section 106(A)(a)	2
Fail to obey traffic signs or signals, or yield, or right of way	Section 83(2), 93(2), 122, 132, 133, 134	2
Driving to left of center line	Section 110, 115(1)(b), 115(1)(c), 115(2)	2
Operating MV Without Adequate Brakes	Section 181	2
Offences involving the use of a motor vehicle in motion under the following Sections	Section 70, 70(A), 70(B),75(5), 107, 111, 112, 117, 118, 119, 120, 123, 164, 165 169(2), 175(2), 175(3), 175(4), 178, 185	2

If you are interested in the various fines associated with Provincial Offences in Nova Scotia, follow this link.

If you have specific questions about the Point System, follow this link to get to a page which will provide answers to a number of issues; from "What is a Newly Licensed Driver?" to "How long do those points stay on my record?"

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