34Recording of issue or variation of driver licences

34 Recording of issue or variation of driver licences

(1)  On issuing a driver licence, the Registrar must record the following information in respect of the driver licence in the driver licence register:

(a) the holder's name;

(b) the holder's date of birth;

(c) the holder's residential address;

(d) if there is no postal service to the holder's residential address, a postal address for the service of notices on the holder;

(e) the licence number;

(f) a copy of the photograph included on the licence as required under regulation 32(2)(e) ;

(g) the class of the licence, or if the licence is issued both as a licence of a particular class in the hierarchy of licence classes and as a motor cycle licence, both those classes;

(h) if the licence is a learner licence or a provisional licence, the licence type and, if it is a provisional licence, the date on which it ceases to be a provisional licence;

(i) the commencement date and expiry date of the licence;

(j) each condition to which the licence is subject.

(2)  The Registrar may record other information in the driver licence register –

(a) for the purposes of the Act or any other Act; or

(b) for any other purposes that the Registrar considers appropriate.

(3)  The Registrar must keep the information as recorded in the driver licence register up to date by –

(a) recording a later variation, renewal, suspension, cancellation, expiry or surrender of the driver licence; and

(b) ensuring that the information recorded in the register reflects the most recent information, about the licence and the holder of the licence, available to the Registrar.