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Malta license plate: Standard 1979

Retired 1979 to 1995. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Transport Malta / Authority for Transport in Malta. One of 13 Malta license plates.

Malta license plate, Standard 1979 (1979 to 1995), sample D-8917
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Format, years and the law

Format
L-9999, for example D-8917 (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
1979 to 1995. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE LETTER-AND-FOUR-DIGITS ERA. Entirely secondary and entirely administrative. Recorded because the shape is distinctive and a parse API benefits from recognising it, not because any of its boundaries are established.
About the format
The separator class accepts a hyphen or a space and the quantifier makes it optional, because nothing prescribes it

Legal basis and sources

  1. L.N. 128 of 1994 regs. 31-32, the delegating provision that explains why no format instrument exists for this era https://legislation.mt/eli/ln/1994/128/eng
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Malta

Before and after

Malta license plate, Standard 1952 (1952 to 1979) It replaced Standard 1952 1952 to 1979 Malta license plate, Standard 1995 (1995 to 2004) Replaced by Standard 1995 1995 to 2004

This plate in your app

The series id is mt-standard-1979. 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-standard-1979")'
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