Overseas licence holders
An amendment was made to the Transport Operations (Road Use Management — Driver Licensing) Regulation 1999 on 1 March 2006, exempting New Zealand licence holders, and certain other overseas licence holders, from having to complete the written road rules test and pay the prescribed fee for a car and/or motorbike licence.
Queensland Transport recognises driver licences issued from the following prescribed countries:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Guernsey
- Ireland
- Isle of Man†
- Italy
- Japan
- Jersey
- Luxembourg
- Malta‡
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Portugal
- Singapore
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States of America.
† Isle of Man is prescribed only in relation to driver licences granted on or after 1 April 1991.
‡ Malta is prescribed only in relation to driver licences granted on or after 2 January 2004.
Applicants from these counties (excluding applicants from external territories of those recognised countries) are not required to take a written road rules or practical driving test when applying for a car or motorcycle licence in Queensland.
Testing requirements do apply for overseas licence holders when applying for a heavy vehicle (classes LR, MR, HR, HC and MC) licence. Successful completion of the written road rules test and the practical driving test for heavy vehicle classes still apply.
However, driver licence holders who currently hold a heavy vehicle class of licence issued from New Zealand will only be required to take a written road rules test on heavy vehicles. Applicants that wish to transfer a class MC driver licence issued in New Zealand will also need to complete the Multi Combination Driving Experience Declaration form (F3272) and provide evidence confirming their ability to drive a B-double or road train.
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Last updated 10 March 2009
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