Malta license plate: Diplomatic staff

Issued today 2009 to today. Consular plates for car and van, issued by Transport Malta / Authority for Transport in Malta. One of 13 Malta license plates.

Malta license plate, Diplomatic staff (2009 to today), sample DMS 426

Format, years and the law

Format
DMS 999, for example DMS 426 (9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2009 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Consular: consular corps where distinct from diplomatic. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
STAFF OF DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS, a separate block from the CD mark of the missions themselves, which is a distinction many jurisdictions do not draw. Introduced with L.N. 198 of 2009; it does not appear in the 2004 list.

Legal basis and sources

  1. S.L. 368.02 reg. 31(6) https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/368.2/eng

This plate in your app

The series id is mt-diplomatic-staff-2009. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Malta's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mt \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "mt-diplomatic-staff-2009")'