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Driving licences

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• Learn to drive a car: step by step
• Apply for your first provisional driving licence
• View or share your driving licence information
• Tell DVLA you've changed address: step by step
• Replace a lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed driving licence
• Renew your driving licence
• Renew your driving licence if you're 70 or over

Legal obligations

• Legal obligations of drivers and riders
• Check if a health condition affects your driving
• Tell DVLA about a medical condition that could affect your driving

Apply for a licence

• Apply for your first provisional driving licence
• Identity documents needed for a driving licence application
• Track your driving licence application
• Apply for your full driving licence

View a licence

• View or share your driving licence information
• Check someone's driving licence information

Lost or stolen driving licence

• Replace a lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed driving licence

Update your licence

• Tell DVLA you've changed address: step by step
• Change the address on your driving licence
• Change the name or gender on your driving licence
• Change the photo on your driving licence

Renew, reapply or exchange your licence

• Renew your driving licence
• Renew your driving licence if you're 70 or over
• Renew your short-term medical driving licence
• Exchange your paper driving licence for a photocard licence
• Reapply for a driving licence following a medical condition
• Reapply for your driving licence if you've been disqualified
• Exchange a foreign driving licence
• Driving in Great Britain on a non-GB licence
• Driving licence fees
• Order DVLA forms

Upgrade your licence

• Adding higher categories to your driving licence
• Upgrade an automatic car driving licence to a manual one
• Driving licence fees
• Driving a motorhome
• Driving a minibus

Towing a trailer

• Towing with a car
• Tow a trailer with a car: safety checks
• Car and trailer driving test
• Towing: licence and age requirements
• Cars and trailers

Give up your licence

• Surrendering your driving licence

Tell DVLA a driver has died

• Telling DVLA after someone dies

Codes, categories and points

• Vehicles you can drive
• Driving licence categories
• Driving a van
• Driving a minibus
• Driving a motorhome
• Driving licence codes
• Penalty points (endorsements)
• Compare old and new driving licence categories
• Vehicle weights explained

Contact DVLA

• Contact DVLA

Driving and transport

• Driving licences

• Vehicle tax, MOT and insurance

• Driving tests and learning to drive or ride

• Number plates, vehicle registration and log books

• Buy, sell or scrap a vehicle

• Driving with medical conditions, Blue Badges and public transport if you're disabled

• The Highway Code, road safety and vehicle rules

• Vehicle and driver data and information

• Penalty points, fines and driving bans

• Driving in the UK and abroad

• Lorry, bus and coach drivers

• Transport and driving businesses

• Teaching people to drive

• Driving and enforcing the law

• Parking, public transport and the environment

• Manufacture or adapt a vehicle

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