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Malta license plate: Standard 1995

Retired 1995 to 2004. 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 1995 (1995 to 2004), sample NIK 389
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example NIK 389 (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
1995 to 2004. 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 THREE-LETTER FORMAT BEFORE IT WAS LEGISLATED. The 1995 start is a secondary date with no gazette reference and should be treated as observational. The end, by contrast, IS instrument-dated, 9 March 2004, when L.N. 114 of 2004 first prescribed the format in law, and the two entries overlap in 2004 for that reason, with distinct notes.
About the format
The optional gap reflects that no separator was prescribed either

Legal basis and sources

  1. L.N. 128 of 1994 (Motor Vehicles Regulations 1994, S.L. 65.11) regs. 31-32, THE SOURCED NEGATIVE: the mark and all character dimensions are 'determined from time to time by the Commissioner of Police on the advice of... https://legislation.mt/eli/ln/1994/128/eng
  2. L.N. 114 of 2004, the END of the unlegislated era: the first published format, in force 9-3-2004 https://legislation.mt/eli/ln/2004/114/eng
  3. Revision 1365210379 of 2026-07-21T00:33:53Z. NO primary exists for this boundary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Malta

Before and after

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

This plate in your app

The series id is mt-standard-1995. 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-1995")'
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