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Malta license plate: Government

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

Malta license plate, Government (2009 to today), sample GVN 668
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Format, years and the law

Format
GVL 999, for example GVN 668 (L is any letter, 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
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
MALTESE OFFICIAL MARKS. TWO TRAPS, both sourced. FIRST: GVH is GOVERNMENT HEAVY VEHICLES, not the Department of Health, the "health" reading is a persistent secondary error and there is no health block at all. SECOND, and subtler: reg. 31(7) allots "a letter followed by the letters GV and three numbers" to N1 vehicles with not more than two seats, so an ordinary small van carries a mark like XGV 123 that LOOKS official and is not. Police and the Armed Forces are inside this scheme, unlike Cyprus, whose Καν. 6(21)(β) expressly excludes both from its government plate.

Legal basis and sources

  1. legislation.mt https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/368.2/eng

This plate in your app

The series id is mt-government-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-government-2009")'
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