The Highway Code, road safety and vehicle rules

Driving law

• The Highway Code
• Legal obligations of drivers and riders
• Know your traffic signs

Road and driving safety

• Speed limits
• Driving eyesight rules
• Using mobile phones when driving: the law
• The drink drive limit
• Drug use and driving
• Motorcycle helmets: the law
• Seat belts: the law
• Child car seats: the law

Rules for different vehicles

• Legal obligations of drivers and riders
• Electric bikes: the rules
• Mobility scooters and powered wheelchairs: the rules
• Quad bikes: the rules
• Tinted vehicle windows: the law

Vehicle recalls and faults

• Vehicle recalls and faults
• Check for vehicle, part or accessory recalls

Boat safety

• Boatmasters' licence
• Register your boat with the coastguard's safety scheme

Driving and transport

• Learning to drive and ride

  Provisional licences, driving lessons, booking and managing your tests and when you've passed

• Driving licences

  Includes applying, changing your address, fees and tracking your application

• Vehicle tax, MOT and insurance

  Taxing your vehicle or registering it as off the road, getting an MOT and vehicle insurance

• Buy, sell or scrap a vehicle

• Number plates, vehicle registration and log books

  Includes changing your address and personalised number plates

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

• Driving in the UK and abroad

  Check your eligibility to drive in the UK and abroad, and importing vehicles.

• Penalty points, fines and driving bans

• The Highway Code, road safety and vehicle rules

  Rules for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, traffic signs, road safety and boat safety

• Teaching people to drive

  Becoming an instructor, taking the qualifying tests, managing your registration and rules

• Lorry, bus and coach drivers

  Becoming a lorry, bus or coach driver, Driver CPC, roadside checks, carrying loads and vehicle tests

• Transport and driving businesses

  Operator licences for goods and public service vehicles, employing drivers, taxi licences and running MOT stations

• Manufacture or adapt a vehicle

• Parking, public transport and the environment

• Driving and enforcing the law

• Vehicle and driver data and information

• Vehicle tax and SORN

  Taxing your vehicle, costs, Direct Debit and SORN

• Vehicle and boat safety

  Includes disqualification, penalty points, vehicle recalls and registering boats

• MOT and vehicle insurance

  Includes getting an MOT, MOT fees and vehicle insurance

• Blue Badge, parking, local travel and the environment

  Information about parking permits, fines and wheel clamping

All categories

• Benefits
• Births, deaths, marriages and care
• Business and self-employed
• Childcare and parenting
• Citizenship and living in the UK
• Crime, justice and the law
• Disabled people
• Driving and transport
• Education and learning
• Employing people
• Environment and countryside
• Housing and local services
• Money and tax
• Passports, travel and living abroad
• Visas and immigration
• Working, jobs and pensions