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Malta license plate: Vintage green

Retired 2015 to 2018. Historic 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, Vintage green (2015 to 2018), sample DNT 563
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example DNT 563 (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
2015 to 2018. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #007A33 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE GREEN VINTAGE PLATE, 2015-2018, a design that most secondary accounts of Malta omit entirely, jumping straight from black-on-white to silver-on-black and dating the latter to 2017. Both halves of that are wrong and both are corrected from the instruments: the intermediate design existed, it was green characters, and the silver-on-black change is 2018. Note also what L.N. 178 of 2015 s.16 incidentally proves by prescribing a swap fee from BLACK to GREEN plates: before June 2015 there was no special vintage plate at all.

Legal basis and sources

  1. L.N. 178 of 2015 (Government Gazette 19,436, 05-06-2015) s.17: the GREEN characters rule; s.16 set the changeover fee at EUR 17.50 per plate 'for the replacement of vintage vehicle plates carrying black characters... https://legislation.mt/eli/ln/2015/178/eng
  2. L.N. 139 of 2018 s.7(b): THE END, substitutes the green rule with the silver-on-black rule https://legislation.mt/eli/ln/2018/139/eng
  3. Cap. 368 art. 25 (added by Act XIII of 2015): the vintage regime, 30 years or older from date of manufacture, a vintage vehicle classification committee, and 'Vintage vehicles which are older than fifty years shall be... https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/368/eng

Before and after

Malta license plate, Vintage silver (2018 to today) Replaced by Vintage silver 2018 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is mt-vintage-green-2015. 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-vintage-green-2015")'
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