Renewal of driving license Kerala RTO

                                                           

            Section 15 of Central Motor Vehicle Act, 1988 deals with renewal of license and rule 18 of Central Motor Vehicle Rules specifies the forms and requirements for filing the renewal application.

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            A license issued for driving a non- transport vehicle will be valid till the date of completion of 50 years of age of the license holder. A license to drive a transport vehicle will be valid for a period of 3 years only. After the expiry of the validity of a license it can be renewed for further periods, if required by the license holder.  A license for a non- transport vehicle will be renewed for the next 5 years and a license for a transport vehicle will be renewed for next three years if the application for the same Is submitted by the license holder.

         The application for renewal of license can be submitted within 30 days prior to the expiry date or within 30 days after the expiry of the license. In both cases the license will be renewed without any break in the validity of the license. But if the application for renewal of driving license is made 30 days after the expiry of the license, then the license will be renewed only with effect from the date of submission of the application, thereby causing a break in the validity of the license.

           One important thing to take not in this regard is that, renewal driving license will not be allowed after 5 years of expiry of the validity of the driving license. In such a case the license holder has to apply afresh for fresh license and the renewal will be allowed without conducting a driving test. Please see my article on issue of fresh license for further details in this regard.                                                        

           The application for renewal of license has to be submitted before the office of the R.T.O/Joint R.T.O within whose records the license is included at present. The application shall be made in form 9 and in the case of renewal of driving license for non-transport vehicles, a declaration regarding the medical fitness of the applicant in form 1 and an eye certificate in the prescribed format from an ophthalmologist shall also be submitted along with the application. In the case of renewal application of a license for transport vehicles or for persons who are more than 50 years of age a medical certificate in form 1 A is to be submitted in addition to the self declaration of medical fitness in form 1.

           This service can be rendered at fast track counter if the applicant comes in person and the records will be received back after completing all the processing within 30 minutes. Please see my article on fast track counters for getting more details about fast track counters.

          If the service is not rendered in fast track counter, as per citizen’s charter the time prescribed for renewing a license is 5 days. That is my after 5 days the license will be sent to the applicant by registered post in the address entered in the certificate of registration after renewing the license. It has to be noted that in this case a self addressed cover with necessary postal stamps affixed for sending by registered post will have to be submitted by the applicant in addition to the documents already stated above. 

          If the application for renewal of license is made within time as stated above the fee for renewal of license is Rs 300.00. This includes the fee of Rs 250.00 and service charge of Rs 50.00. A late fee of Rs 50.00 per year is payable in case of belated applications.