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Malta license plate: Taxi

Issued today 2010 to today. Taxi plates for car, issued by Transport Malta / Authority for Transport in Malta. One of 13 Malta license plates.

Malta license plate, Taxi (2010 to today)
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Format, years and the law

Format
TAXI 999 L (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
2010 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for car.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
A LIVE CONFLICT BETWEEN TWO INSTRUMENTS, RECORDED AND RESOLVED RATHER THAN AVERAGED. S.L. 368.02 reg. 31(1)(v) describes the mark as "the letters TAXI M followed by three numerical figures", letter BEFORE the digits. S.L. 499.59 reg. 24(1) describes it as "TAXI" followed by three numbers "followed by the letter 'M'", letter AFTER the digits. They cannot both be right.
How the region is encoded
THE ONLY GEOGRAPHIC ENCODING IN MALTESE PLATE LAW. Suffix M = the island of Malta; suffix G = Gozo. Two rows, so inline rather than a decode file. Its lapsed predecessor was a PREFIX pair on the ordinary format: [x]TY for taxicars in Malta and [x]WY for taxicars in Gozo (L.N. 476 of 2004 reg. 33(1)(vii)-(viii), carried into L.N. 198 of 2009 reg. 31(1)(vii)-(viii)), replaced by TAXI M / TAXI G by L.N. 110 of 2011.
How numbers are issued
S.L. 499.59 reg. 24 splits the numbering three ways, verbatim: taxis already licensed in MALTA when the regulations commenced take "three numbers from '001' to '200' followed by the letter 'M'"; taxis licensed in GOZO take "three numbers commencing from '001' onwards followed by the letter 'G'"; and taxis granted a NEW Malta licence after commencement take "three numbers commencing from '201' onwards followed by the letter 'M'". So on the Malta side the number band 001-200 versus 201+ separates pre- from post-2010 licences, which is a genuine age signal, the only one in the Maltese system.

Legal basis and sources

  1. S.L. 499.59, Taxi Services Regulations (L.N. 369 of 2010), reg. 24(1)-(3): the TAXI + three digits + M/G form and the three numbering bands; reg. 24(5) the door-marking rule. Commencement stated on the consolidation:... https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/499.59/eng
  2. S.L. 368.02 reg. 31(1)(v)-(vi) and its First Schedule, which defers to the Taxi Services Regulations, 'Composed as prescribed in the Taxi Services Regulations. (S.L. 499.59)', and sets the taxi plate fee at EUR 60 per... https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/368.2/eng

This plate in your app

The series id is mt-taxi-2010. 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-taxi-2010")'
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