Every short-let door in Malta is getting this sign.
L.N. 92 of 2026 requires a sign at the door carrying the licence and a 24-hour contact. The MTA has said it will apply to existing licences too, and is drafting its guidelines. Have yours ready. The sign is free and stays free.
Free with an account. A5 or A4. English or Maltese.
Not sure what reaches your licence? Read what the 2026 rules require, or find the waste days for your locality.
Specimen, example details
Licensed short-let rented accommodation
Flat 4
12, Triq il-Kbira
Sliema SLM 1234
Licence number
STR-MT-APT-90123
Responsible person, 24 hours
Joseph Mifsud
+356 7900 0000
Scan to check the licence, see waste days or report a problem
L.N. 92 of 2026 (S.L. 409.24) Sixth Schedule, Standard 1.1.2
Licensed short-let
Flat 4, Triq il-Kbira
Specimen, example details
One scan reaches the person on duty.
The QR opens that unit's page, which is where a printed sign becomes useful to whoever is standing at the door at 2am. The regulation sets the content of the sign, not its format, so the QR and the page behind it are ours to design.
The 24-hour contact is a button, not a number to copy down in the dark.
The licence number links straight to the MTA validator, so anyone can verify it.
A neighbour reports noise or waste in four taps and gets a tracking link back.
Every report and reply is timestamped, which is what a renewal asks you to show.
What the law actually says.
Sixth Schedule, Standard 1.1.2. Each holiday premises must be clearly numbered or named with a sign affixed on the exterior of the unit. In a condominium it goes on or next to the entrance door of the unit.
The sign must show four things.
- iThe address of the premises.
- iiThat the premises is licensed short-let rented accommodation.
- iiiThe official registration or licence number.
- ivThe name, surname and contact number of a designated person available 24 hours to receive complaints.
If there is no sign
An unannounced inspection, then a period to put it right, then an enforcement notice, then suspension or revocation. No fine attaches to the sign itself.
Cap. 409, article 43
Offences under the Act carry fines between €1,164.69 and €23,293.73. Persistent breach can reach three years imprisonment.
Operating unlicensed
A three-year disqualification that attaches to the operator and to the premises itself, whoever applies next.
If you look after a block, the sign is the small part.
The licence can be held by a mandated agent, and the person on 24-hour duty is usually the manager or their staff on rota. That is recurring work, and it is what an operator profile is for.
- Whole blocks at once
- Import units from a spreadsheet, then print one batch PDF for every door in the building.
- One rota, every sign
- Change the person on duty once. Every sign that inherits them is flagged for reprint.
- The administrator letter
- Annex 4 Cat. E 2(g)(ii) asks you to notify the block administrator in writing. We write it.
- Issues with a clock on them
- Reports arrive already acknowledged, attached to the unit they came from.
The regulation names the mandated agent as somebody who can hold the licence, which puts a good deal of recurring work on whoever manages the units. What it asks of a manager.
Questions people ask first.
- Do I need a door sign for my short-let in Malta?
- Sixth Schedule Standard 1.1.2 of L.N. 92 of 2026 (S.L. 409.24) requires a sign on the exterior of the unit, and in a condominium it goes on or next to the entrance door of the unit itself. How soon it reaches you depends on your licence. The MTA told Times of Malta on 20 July 2026 that the sign measure will be extended to existing licences but has yet to come into force, and that it is drafting guidelines on the signs themselves. An application made from 15 June 2026 is under the new standards already.
- What must the sign show?
- The address of the premises, a statement that it is licensed short-let rented accommodation, the official licence number, and the name and 24-hour contact number of the designated responsible person.
- How long does it take?
- About two minutes. You answer ten short questions, we email you a print-ready A5 or A4 PDF, and you get a live unit page at the same time.
- Is the sign generator free?
- Yes, and it stays free. The unit page behind the QR code is free too, along with buildings, batch signs and the complaint route. Paid features are the page in your own branding and the extra page themes.
- Why does the sign have a QR code?
- So that anyone at the door can reach a person. The QR opens the unit page, where the 24-hour contact is a button and the licence number links to the MTA validator. The regulation sets the content of the sign, not its format, so the QR is our addition and it sits outside the four elements Standard 1.1.2 lists. It replaces none of them. The MTA has not published its guidance on signs yet, so confirm your template with the licensing directorate before a large print run.
- What happens if there is no sign?
- An unannounced MTA inspection, then a period to put it right, then an enforcement notice, then suspension or revocation of the licence. There is no fine specific to the sign, though Cap. 409 article 43 sets fines between €1,164.69 and €23,293.73 for offences under the Act.
- Is thetenant.app connected to the MTA?
- No. We are a private product with no standing to license, inspect or certify anything. We build to the published text of L.N. 92 of 2026 and update as the MTA issues guidance, and we say where it has not. Meeting the conditions of your licence stays yours.
The rest of it, written out.
Sourced to the instrument and to what the MTA has actually said, with the open questions left open.
- Short lets in MaltaWhat L.N. 92 of 2026 requires, and the split that decides how much of it reaches you: some of it waits for a new application, and some of it reaches the licence you already hold.
- Managing units for ownersThe regulation names the mandated agent as somebody who can hold the licence. What that puts on a manager, per unit, every renewal.
- Waste collection by localityCollection times for all 68 councils, with the national day schedule and how early bags may go out. Getting this wrong is the complaint councils receive most.
- Booking a short-letFor a guest: how to tell a licensed unit from an unlicensed one before you pay, and what the sign at the door should show when you arrive.
What changed, and when.
Everything we have writtenThe rules keep moving and the guides get rewritten under you. These are dated, and each one ends with the documents it came from and the day we read them.