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Request your licence records

Access Canberra (the Road Transport Authority) will only release your licence records to you, someone you authorise, or someone authorised by law.

Our team seeks to facilitate a request within 10 business days from the date it was received.

Note: Records of manual driving tests taken before 1999 are not available. Requests for certified copies of these results cannot be processed.

Requests made online

If you’re making the request online, you’ll need to:

  • complete our online form
  • prove your identity . Do not send copies of bank or credit cards
  • pay the fee
  • if you’re requesting records on behalf of someone else you will also need to upload a completed Authority to act as an agent [PDF 192.3 KB] form, as well as a copy of one primary identity document for the Agent.

Requests made in person

If you’re attending an Access Canberra Service Centre, you’ll need to:

Note: In-person requests for licence records are not issued at the time of attendance and will be emailed or posted to your nominated address.

Requests from legal practitioners, insurance companies, MAI Insurance providers

All requests from legal practitioners, insurance companies and MAI insurance providers following an accident, must be submitted in writing to the Access Canberra Document Management Team.

The request can be sent to Access Canberra by:

  • submitting the online form
  • post to GPO Box 582  Canberra ACT 2601.

Interstate licence history search

If you have an interstate driver licence, contact the state or territory which issued it.

If you need the licence history so you can get an ACT driver licence, you must attend an Access Canberra Service Centre within 7 calendar days of receiving it.

Both a licence and traffic history are needed for Queensland licence holders.

Read about interstate driver licences.