Vehicle and Traffic (Driver Licensing and Vehicle Registration) Regulations 2021

If satisfied that an applicant for the renewal of a driver licence remains eligible to hold the licence, the Registrar must renew the licence.

If the Registrar renews a driver licence, the Registrar must – amend the driver licence register to show the new expiry date for the licence; and re-issue the licence in the form of a renewed licence showing the new expiry date.

A driver licence receipt may be issued in anticipation of the issue of the renewed driver licence.

Subject to subregulation (5), if a driver licence, other than a learner licence, is renewed before, or within 6 months after, the expiry date for the licence, the period of the renewal runs, or is taken to have run, from the day after the expiry of the licence.

If an application for renewal is made after the expiry of the driver licence, then, even though the period of renewal is taken to have run from the day after the expiry of the licence, the holder of the licence is unlicensed from the day after the date of expiry until the date of renewal.

If a driver licence, other than a learner licence, is renewed more than 6 months after the expiry of the licence, the period of licence renewal runs from the date of renewal.

If a driver licence that was issued as a learner licence is renewed, the period of licence renewal runs from the date of expiry of the licence or, if that date has passed, the date of renewal.