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You can change the photo on your driving licence online at any time by renewing your licence - cost, how to pay and apply, applying by post.
Fees to renew, exchange or amend your full or provisional driving licence - or to get a duplicate if yours has been lost, stolen or damaged
Types of vehicle that are free to tax (exempt), including vehicles used by disabled people, mobility scooters, and historic vehicles
Update your vehicle log book (V5C) and send it to DVLA to change your name.
When you can be banned from driving, check when your driving ban ends, reduce your disqualification period, disqualified until you've passed your test, drink-driving offences
Use this service to pay any money you owe DVLA for not taxing your vehicle or declaring a Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN)
How to register your vehicle and the cost - new registrations, kit cars, rebuilds, radically altered vehicles, old and classic vehicles, vehicle identification numbers, Q plates
Learn to drive a car in the UK - get a provisional licence, take driving lessons, prepare for your theory test, book your practical test
Codes that DVLA places on your driving licence, and their explanations
The eyesight rules to pass your driving test and for whenever you're driving.
Updating your V5C registration certificate (log book) if you make changes to your vehicle
Apply for, renew or replace a driver digital tachograph card.
Check if you're old enough, or have the right kind of driving licence, to drive different kinds of vehicle
Application form to keep a vehicle registration number (personalised number plate) and put it on another vehicle.
Find a business that sells number plates for your vehicle
What to do when selling a vehicle: your vehicle log book (V5C), submitting the right information to DVLA, private (personalised) registration numbers.
What you need to do before you can drive a car or ride a motorcycle - driving licence, registering your vehicle, insurance, vehicle tax, MOT
Check fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and vehicle tax bands by make model and registration
Request details about a vehicle's registered keeper: bulk data, anonymised data, mileage data requests, other information requests
Change the amount of vehicle tax you pay when you change your vehicle's engine size, fuel type, or if it becomes exempt from vehicle tax.
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