New Petrol-powered Motorcycles - 2025

This page contains information related to the grant scheme applicable in 2025.

The information included in this page is meant to provide information about this incentive scheme, without prejudice to any provision in the respective scheme.

This financial incentive intends to further promote the use petrol powered Category L vehicles and is aimed at persons residing in Malta;

The grant shall support the purchase of:

Mopeds;
Motorcycles;
Tricycles; and
Light Quadricycles.

The scheme is applicable only for motorcycles registered on or after the 1st of April 2025.

The grant includes a scrappage scheme intended to provide further financial support to applicants who, while purchasing and registering a new petrol Category L vehicle (motorcycle), deregister a vehicle of category M1 (car) or N1 (Van) which is at least 10 years old from its year of manufacture.

The Incentive Details

Grant amounts to be paid for each Category L Petrol motorcycle purchased by any eligible applicant.

Type of vehicle	Vehicle Sub-Category	Grant amount
- Powered cycles; - Two-wheel mopeds; - Three-wheel mopeds for passenger transport or for utility purposes; - Low performance motorcycle; - Low-performance two-wheel motorcycle with side-car. - Powered Tricycle with power not exceeding 15kW. - Light quadricycles or quadri-mobiles.	L1e-A L1e-B L2e L3e-A1 L4e-A1 L5e L6e	€1,000
- Medium performance motorcycle; - Medium-performance two-wheel motorcycle with side-car; - Powered Tricycle with power exceeding 15kW but not exceeding 35kW.	L3e-A2 L4e-A2 L5e	€750

The quantity of grants that may be issued to an applicant may not exceed the following limits:

Type of Applicant	Maximum Grants in 2025
Persons who received grants for new Category L petrol vehicles in 2021, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024.	0
Persons who did not receive grants for new Category L petrol vehicles in 2021, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024.	1

Scrappage Grant (Optional)

Type of Scrapped Vehicle		Grant Amount
	Category L Vehicles: Mopeds, 3-wheeled Mopeds, Motorcycles, Motorcycles with Side-Car, Tricycles or Quadricycles	€500
	Category M1 Vehicles: Cars with up to 9 seats	Last licence expired more than 3 months before it is deregistered (scrapped) with the Authority: €500 Last licence expired not more than 3 months before it is deregistered (scrapped) with the Authority: €1,000
	Category N1 Vehicles: Vans weighing up to 3,500kg

IMPORTANT NOTICE

There are ONLY 10 destruction facilities authorised to destroy cars in line with the end-of-life directive. The list of approved facilities is available on TM’s website and the scrapping form VEH 13.
It is illegal to garage and/or sell a vehicle for parts. Vehicle owners must dispose of their vehicles at authorised destruction facilities ONLY. Only these are certified to issue destruction certificates.
After this process, the vehicle owner must visit Transport Malta and present the number plates, destruction certificate, and registration certificate (logbook) to have the vehicle officially scrapped and deregistered with TM.
If an applicant intends to avail from the scrapping scheme it is of outmost importance that the vehicle must be in the name of the applicant before the vehicle is taken to the destruction facility and before the mew petrol-powered motorcycle is registered. It is illegal to purchase a vehicle which has already been destructed at the facility and try to transfer it on your name with the Authority. A vehicle CANNOT be transferred once it is scrapped with the Authority.

Terms and Conditions

Scrapped vehicle must be at least 10 years old from the Year of Manufacture on the date of destruction.
The Scrapped vehicle must be licensed with Transport Malta in the name of the applicant before its destruction and before the registration of the new petrol-powered motorcycle.
Deregistered vehicles which had benefitted from the provisions of S.L.65.24 shall not be eligible for this scrappage scheme.
Vehicles must be scrapped at Authorised Treatment Facilities approved in compliance with the Waste Management (End of Life) Regulations – S.L.549.36. Destruction Certificates issued must be dated 2024 or 2025.
If the scrapped vehicle was continuously registered in Gozo between the 11th October 2021 and the date of scrappage, and the bank account to which the applicant requests the issue of the grant is registered on an address in Gozo, applicant shall be entitled for an additional scrappage grant of €1,000.

GENERAL NOTE 1: The total grant amount issued to applicants for any of these grants shall not exceed the purchase price of the new Category L vehicle.

Applying for this incentive

An application for a grant under this scheme shall be made either by the purchaser, by submitting application form VEH070 along with any information, details and documents required therein. The purchaser of the vehicle shall be considered as the ultimate applicant in terms of this scheme.

Applications under this scheme, together with all the relevant documents, shall be submitted by the applicant during working hours or mailed to Transport Malta’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Unit (DVLU). For opening hours and addresses refer here.

Bank Document Evidence

The bank document to be submitted along with the application must provide sufficient proof that the IBAN included in the form where the grant is to be deposited is effectively owned by the applicant or the spouse of the applicant. Therefore, this document must be issued by the bank where the account is held and must show, as a minimum, the following information:

The IBAN or, as a minimum, the bank account number;
The name and surname of the account holder.

Documents printed by the applicant are not considered to be adequate evidence that the account is actually held by the applicant.

Kindly mask any information concerning amount of funds held in account or transactions carried out from the account.

For samples of bank documents that are acceptable, click here.

Refund Policy

Any new category L petrol motorcycle purchased by the applicant under this grant shall remain registered in the applicant’s name for a period of at least thirty-six (36) months from the date of first registration. If the registered owner of a new category L petrol motorcycle on which a grant has been issued under this scheme transfers the said vehicle to a third party, for any reason other than a transfer causa mortis to an heir, then that person shall refund the grant received from Transport Malta. In such cases, that is, when the vehicle is re-sold and the grant is refunded back by the original owner, the new buyer may apply for the grant scheme related to the purchase of new category L petrol motorcycles, if such a scheme is available at that time. In cases of a company disqualified within the same group of companies, such a transfer of the vehicle will be permitted without the need to refund the grant.

Any new category L petrol motorcycle purchased by the applicant under this grant shall not be altered in such a way that the category of the vehicle changes to a new category for which grants are not available under this scheme. If the registered owner of a category L petrol motorcycle for which a grant is issued under this scheme alters the vehicle in such a way, then that person shall refund the grant received from Transport Malta. No new grant applications will be accepted if that same category L petrol motorcycle is then altered back to its original category.

Page last updated: 20/05/2025