# Malta license plate: Vintage green

> The Malta vintage green license plate: format LLL 999, for example DNT 563, 2015 to 2018, car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.

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Part of [Malta license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/malta) (13 registration series).

![Malta license plate, Vintage green (2015 to 2018)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/mt/mt-vintage-green-2015/malta-license-plate-vintage-green.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LLL 999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2015–2018 |
| Class | historic |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #007A33; band #003399 on the left; border #000000 |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `mt-vintage-green-2015` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/malta/vintage-green-2015) |

Sources:

- [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 with new plates carrying green characters' — which also establishes that vintage plates were ORDINARY BLACK ON WHITE before 2015](https://legislation.mt/eli/ln/2015/178/eng)
- [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)
- [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 exempt from the payment of registration tax when they are registered for the first time in Malta'](https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/368/eng)

## 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.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Replaced by | [Vintage silver](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/malta/vintage-silver-2018) | 2018 to today |

## Other historic plates here

- [Vintage silver](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/malta/vintage-silver-2018) (2018 to today)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/mt/mt-vintage-green-2015.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/malta?series=mt-vintage-green-2015
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mt` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "mt-vintage-green-2015"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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