Malta license plate: Personalised
Issued today 2011 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Transport Malta / Authority for Transport in Malta. One of 13 Malta license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL999, for exampleISW905(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
- 2011 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - About this plate
- MALTESE SPECIAL AND PERSONALISED MARKS. Fees, from the First Schedule and recorded because they are the clearest evidence of the tiering: Standard Alphanumeric (Random) EUR 70 per pair; Standard Alphanumeric (Personalised), "where the choice of the characters and numerals shall lie with the person requesting the Numbers", EUR 200 per pair; each of the three Special formats EUR 1,500 per pair; duplicate plates EUR 35 each. TRANSFERABILITY IS THE INTERESTING RULE, reg. 30(4): random marks are NOT transferable independently of the vehicle, PERSONALISED marks ARE, and other marks transfer on payment of EUR 466 with exemptions for transfers causa mortis, between spouses, ascendants or direct collaterals, and between a company and its director or majority shareholder. A RESIDUAL GAP, recorded: reg. 30(3) provides that marks "shall be made available to the public in such manner as the Authority may from time to time establish by means of a NOTICE IN THE GAZETTE", so which specific marks are released is administrative and is not on legislation.mt.
- Region code notes
- none, and note that a personalised mark DEFEATS the renewal-month rule of the standard series, since the First Schedule ties that rule to the Standard Alphanumeric Format (Random) type only
- About the format
- S.L. 368.02 reg. 30(2), verbatim: "The registration mark may take any of the special numeric, special alphabetical or special alphanumeric formats specified in the First Schedule and can be composed of up to a MAXIMUM OF NINE CHARACTERS." The First Schedule defines them: Special Numeric Format, "Composed solely of any Arabic numeral"; Special Alphabetical Format, "Composed of any character of the Roman Alphabet"; Special Numeric and Alphabetical, "Composed of a mixture of numeric and alphabetical". So one to nine characters, letters and/or digits, in any arrangement.
Legal basis and sources
- S.L. 368.02 reg. 30(2)-(4) and the First Schedule (substituted by L.N. 195 of 2011, amended by L.N. 110 of 2011, 178 of 2015 and 139 of 2018): the special formats, the nine-character maximum, the fees, and the... https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/368.2/eng
- L.N. 195 of 2011: substituted the First Schedule wholesale, the instrument that dates this series https://legislation.mt/eli/ln/2011/195/eng
This plate in your app
The series id is mt-personalised-2011. 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-personalised-2011")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/mt/mt-personalised-2011.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/mt/mt-personalised-2011/template.svg
