The NZTA is responsible for managing the New Zealand driver licensing and driver testing systems. Our licensing agents issue and renew an average of more than 35,000 driver licences each month. Our Contact Centre handles nearly 700,000 driver licensing enquiries a year.
The law requires us to recover the costs associated with driver licensing and driver testing from licence holders. The fees were last reviewed in 2001 and, since then, the cost of providing licensing and testing services has become greater than the fees collected. We have released an Information paper (PDF, 182 KB) which sets out proposed changes to existing fees, and the introduction of new fees, to address this issue in a way that is equitable to all current and future licence holders.
Consultation documents
- The Information paper (PDF, 182 KB), which is a brief summary of the background to this review, and the key items for each proposed change.
- The Background paper (PDF, 313 KB), which provides further information about some changes, additional breakdown of costs, and a full list of terms.
- You can read the Cabinet paper (PDF, 2.95 MB) on the Ministry of Transport's website
Any questions?
Please see our questions and answers (PDF, 112 KB).
Submissions
Submissions closed at 5pm on 26 February 2010.
Full details about making a submission can be found in the Information paper (PDF, 182 KB).
