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r and the prescribed class of vehicle, if the manufacturer manufactures 1,000 or more vehicles of a prescribed class annually; (a.1) the first three characters, the third of which shall be “9”, and the twelfth to fourteenth characters shall uniquely identify the manufacturer and the prescribed class of vehicle, if the manufacturer manufactures less than 1,000 vehicles of a prescribed class annually; (b) the fourth to eighth characters, inclusive, shall uniquely identify the decipherable information for the vehicle as set out in Column II of Table I, except that (i) the seventh character shall be alphabetic for a multi-purpose passenger vehicle, passenger car, three-wheeled vehicle or truck having a GVWR of 4 536 kg or less, (ii) subject to subparagraph (i), the characters and their positioning may be determined by the manufacturer, and (iii) in the case of an incomplete vehicle to be completed as a trailer, the decipherable information required for an incomplete vehicle in column II of Table I shall be that for a trailer; (c) the ninth character shall be the check digit determined in accordance with subsections (7) and (8) after all other characters have been determined by the manufacturer; (d) the tenth character shall be the code that corresponds to the vehicle model year as set out in Table II; (e) the eleventh character shall identify the plant of manufacture of the vehicle; (f) the twelfth to seventeenth characters shall be sequentially assigned by the manufacturer during the manufacturing process, if the manufacturer manufactures 1,000 or more vehicles of a prescribed class annually; (g) the fifteenth to seventeenth characters shall be sequentially assigned by the manufacturer during the manufacturing process, if the manufacturer manufactures less than 1,000 vehicles of a prescribed class annually; and (h) the fourteenth to seventeenth characters shall be numeric for all vehicles and the thirteenth character shall be numeric if the vehicle is a multi-purpose passenger vehicle, passenger car, three-wheeled vehicle or truck having a GVWR of 4 536 kg or less. (4) [Repealed, SOR/2004-250, s. 3] (5) Each character used in a vehicle identification number shall be one of the Arabic numerals or Roman letters specified in Table III. (6) [Repealed, SOR/88-535, s. 1] (7) The check digit referred to in paragraph (3)(c) shall be determined by (a) assigning to each numeral of the vehicle identification number the actual mathematical value of that numeral; (b) assigning to each letter the mathematical value for that letter specified in Table IV; (c) multiplying the assigned value for each character of the vehicle identification number by the weight factor set out opposite that character in Table V; and (d) adding together the numbers obtained under paragraph (c) and dividing the total by 11. (8) The fractional portion of the quotient obtained by paragraph (7)(d), multiplied by 11, shall be the check digit, except that if that product is 10, the check digit shall be X. (9) The Minister may require manufacturers of vehicles in respect of which this section applies to submit to the Minister, for each make and prescribed class of vehicle manufactured, those characters that uniquely identify the vehicle, including, where applicable, the twelfth to fourteenth characters, inclusive, that constitute part of the identifier, and, in all cases, the information necessary to decipher the characters in vehicle identification numbers. (10) If a character in a vehicle identification number identifies engine net power, the engine net power represented by that character shall not differ by more than 10 per cent from the actual engine net power. (11) Manufacturers of vehicles in respect of which this section applies shall apply to the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association for the characters referred to in paragraphs 3(a) and (a.1) that uniquely identify the manufacturer and prescribed class of vehicle. (12) Despite subsections (1) to (11), every ve