Malta license plate: Hire reward

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

Malta license plate, Hire reward (2009 to today), sample ZMJG 962

Format, years and the law

Format
LLLL 999, for example ZMJG 962 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
2009 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for bus, coach, van, truck, and car.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
Greece's Δ.Χ. and Cyprus's yellow class have exactly the same problem.
About the format
A match says only "this string has the shape of a Maltese hire-or-reward mark", it cannot tell you which block, and it will also match plenty of strings that are not in any block.

Legal basis and sources

  1. legislation.mt https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/368.2/eng
  2. L.N. 110 of 2011 s.6: the 2011 rewrite (CY->PY, MY->LY, SY->XY, VY->GV, GY deleted, TY/WY->TAXI M/TAXI G, CABS added) https://legislation.mt/eli/ln/2011/110/eng
  3. L.N. 139 of 2018 (Government Gazette 19,984, 27-04-2018) s.4: BY->BUS, and the addition of TEY, MHY and CSH https://legislation.mt/eli/ln/2018/139/eng

This plate in your app

The series id is mt-hire-reward-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-hire-reward-2009")'