Application for any other exemption for a learner or restricted licence

IMPORTANT: Make sure you've read and understood all the information on the relevant exemption page before you make this application.

Information about exemptions for learner and restricted driver licences

Check you're completing the right application

We have specific application forms for the most common exemption requests:

Apply for an exemption to drive unsupervised on a restricted licence between 10pm and 5am

Apply for an exemption to carry passengers on a restricted licence

If you want to request any other exemption, complete the form below.

Your details

New Zealand driver licence number

Full name

Date of birth

Physical address

Mailing address

Contact phone number

Email address

Do you have any traffic infringements?

This includes infringements and speed camera infringements, pending offences and breaches of the graduated driver licensing system.

Payment details

Reference number from the contact centre to show you've paid over the phone

Call us on 0800 822 422 to pay over the phone using your Visa or Mastercard.

Check our opening hours

Exemption details

Please provide details of the requirements you wish to be exempted from, and why you wish to be exempt from them

Safety considerations

If you're granted an exemption from complying with a legislative requirement, how will you make sure that land transport safety is improved or maintained?

You need to show us that you've considered things like:

What risks might there be to myself, my passenger and/or any other road users?
How will I minimise these risks?
What behaviours will I adopt to make sure that I'm driving safely?

Is there any other information you'd like to provide that's relevant to your application?

Tip: make sure you've covered off all our questions in the exemption section if you can:

How would granting this exemption maintain or improve land transport safety?
How would it contribute to an effective, efficient and safe land transport system in the public interest?
Does it support the response to an emergency or other event?

Documents to support your application

Upload any documents you'd like to give us to support your application.

Declaration

Important: before you submit this application make sure you have:

read and understood all the relevant information in our exemption section
completed all the relevant fields above
uploaded all the evidence we've asked for
included your reference number for your payment.

If you haven't given us everything we need to assess your application, it will be delayed while we contact you for more information.

I've read and understood all the relevant information in this form and in the exemption webpage

All the information I have given for this application is correct

I've provided all the information relevant to this application

The particulars you provide will become part of the Driver Licence Register. Collection, dissemination and release of this information is authorised by the Land Transport Act 1998.

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency may also use some of these particulars to provide you with information relating to driver licensing and driving. We may also disclose some of the particulars to our agents and contractors in relation to the above purposes.

We’ll use your email address to email you information and reminders about your application and driver licensing, and other Waka Kotahi services, including asking for feedback on our services and the transport system. We recommend using an email address that’s unique to you, so only you can see information we send you.

Details supplied with your application may be used to make such enquiries as are deemed necessary to consider your exemption request.

Under the Electoral Act 1993, s 263B, the Electoral Enrolment Centre operates an authorised information matching programme with Waka Kotahi. The purpose of this programme is to assist in keeping the Electoral Roll up-to-date.

To keep the Driver Licence Register up-to-date Waka Kotahi also operates an authorised information matching programme with Births, Deaths and Marriages. Please refer to our Privacy section for more information.

The Privacy Act 2020 provides rights of access to, and correction of, any readily retrievable personal information held about you.

Should you wish to exercise these rights please contact Waka Kotahi, Private Bag 11777, Palmerston North 4442 or email info@nzta.govt.nz.

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