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1. To apply for a new driver’s license, you need to submit your application to the Island Traffic Authority (ITA),but you must first obtain a provisional drivers licence form the local Inland Revenue Department or Tax Office. You can view the complete procedure of obtaining a provisional drivers licence in the wikiprocedure website (Jamaica- Apply for Provisional Driver License)
2. After obtaining a provisional driver’s license, complete the driving lessons from an experienced driver with a valid driver’s license, you instructor should also teach you basic mechanical skill.
3. Obtain the application for a new driver’s license at any office of the Island Traffic Authority (ITA), Tax Office or download an electronic version from the Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) website: Link scroll down to find “Form F7 - Application for Driver's Licence Transaction(s)” or you can download the application form directly via this link: Link
4. Fill the application form accordingly and then take it to a Justice of piece or a Superintendent of police or a member of the attorney to certify the application
5. Pay the driver’s licence examination fee of $1000 at the Tax Office or the nearest examination depot (debit/credit card only) and obtain the payment receipt.
6. Contact the Island Traffic Authority (ITA) in your perish to book an appoint for the driver’s license examination
7. On the appointment date, visit the ITA with your provisional driver’s license and the driver’s license examination payment receipt attached to the certified driver’s license application form.
8. Then submit the complete application to the ITA official at the service desk for verification.
9. Once verified, you will undergo a test for reading ability, road code and or mechanical knowledge and if required you will be needed to complete a yard test which you will be required to pass and then proceed to complete a full sentence of the examination
10. Then the examination department will enter your results into their system and forward your documents(Certificate of Competence) to a specified Tax office for processing of your driver’s license
11. Visit the Tax office where your certificate of competence was sent, and pay the license fees at the cashier and obtain the payment receipt
12. Then an official will require you fill the necessary forms and may ask you to do a reading test.
13. Then the official will confirm your information in their data base and then take your photograph, which will be lamented on your driver’s license and issued to you.

• Compete application form
• Payment receipt
• Provisional driver’s license

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ)
Address: PCJ Bldg. 36 Trafalgar Road,Kingston 5
Phone: 922-5905
Email: taxhelp@taj.gov.jm
Website: Link
All TAJ office contacts: Link

Island Traffic Authority (ITA)
Address: 145 Maxfield Ave,Kingston, Jamaica
Phone: +1 876-754-2814
website: Link
All ITA office contacts: Link

• Individuals form the age of 17 with a valid provisional driver’s license

• Driver’s license examination fee: $3,240.00
• General new: $7,500.00
• Private new: $1,550.00
• Motor cycle new: $1,300.00

• Five years

• Application form: Link

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• Note the application form for a driver’s license is a multipurpose and you should make the correct check box to make the correct application in section A of the application [form.ie Link] In section a under Transaction(S), tick or select “Issue (new applicant)”

• Type of application
• Class of license
• General information
• Declaration

A valid driver’s license proves that you are allowed to drive in Jamaica and driving without one is a traffic offence punishable by law

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• Driver’s license can be used as a proof of identity.

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