Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicles for the Transport of Passengers for Hire or Reward - 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 as published on the government gazzette, downloadable here.

This financial incentive intends to further promote the use of wheelchair accessible vehicles for the transport of passengers, and is aimed at:

Taxi owners;
Light Passenger Transport Operators.

The grant shall support the purchase of new wheelchair accessible vehicle to be licensed for any of the following services along with the scrappage of a category M1 or N1 vehicle which is at least 10 years old from the year of manufacture:

Taxis;
Light Passenger Transport Vehicles that can carry up to 8 passengers, besides the driver.

The Incentive Details

Eligible applicants shall be entitled for a grant of €10,000 upon registering a wheelchair accessible vehicle to be used as a taxi, light passenger transport vehicle or passenger transport vehicle, and scrapping of a vehicle which is at least 10 years old.

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 new wheelchair-accessible vehicle 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 wheelchair-accessible vehicle or, in the case of pedelecs, before the date of purchase.
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.

GENERAL NOTE: The De Minimis Regulations* and the respective thresholds shall apply when grants are issued to undertakings established in Malta.

Applying for this incentive

An application for a grant under this scheme shall be made either by the agent/dealer/supplier or by the purchaser by submitting application form VEH053 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.

In the case of an application within the scope of the De Minimis State Aid rules*, the State Aid Declaration VEH071 is also required.

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.

Requests for Revision of Authority’s decisions

If you feel that a decision taken by the Authority concerning your application for a grant is incorrect, you can request a revision of this decision by following the procedure explained here.

*Depending on the sector of activity of the applicant, the De Minimis rules stipulated in Commission Regulation (EU) No. 2023/2831, Commission Regulation (EU) No. 1408/2013 or Commission Regulation (EU) No. 717/2014 shall apply.

Page last updated: 09/04/2025