United Kingdom First Provisional Driving Licence

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-01

The document was derived from and cross-checked against the official sources below, but the full field-by-field comparison the practice requires (manual-source-review-v1 → Procedure step 2) has not yet been completed against the live authenticated flow at apply-for-driving-licence.service.gov.uk or a live scan of form D1 itself. It therefore remains draft, not verified.

Sources examined

• Document (id, version): gb/dvla/driving-licence-first-provisional / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
• Authority: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
• Primary source URL: https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-provisional-driving-licence (fetched live, 2026-07-01) — eligibility (age, eyesight, residency), application channels (online vs. by post), fees, payment methods, and the post-application confirmation-email statement.
• Secondary source URL: https://www.gov.uk/id-for-driving-licence (fetched live, 2026-07-01) — identity-verification categories (UK passport, UKVI share code, other accepted documents) and the countersignatory rules.
• Tertiary/weak source (not an official DVLA field list): third-party PDF-form-filler summaries of form D1's section structure (personal details, eyesight, licence categories wanted, previous licence details, medical declaration Part A/Part B), used only to confirm that a medical-condition declaration section exists on the paper channel. No official, independently reachable, line-by-line D1 field specification was found or used.
• Official form id: D1 ("Application for a driving licence"), by-post channel only — available at Post Offices, not published as a downloadable PDF (same access pattern as the sibling gb/dvla/driving-licence-renewal-photocard's D1 pack). The online channel has no form number.
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-01.
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer — initial authoring source review).

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | "be at least 15 years and 9 months old" | dateOfBirth | | "have been given permission to live in Great Britain... for at least 185 days" | residencyMeetsRequirement | | "be able to read a number plate from 20 metres away" | eyesightMeetsStandard | | Online channel: £34, arrives within a week, MasterCard/Visa/Electron/Delta debit or credit card | applicationChannel, paymentMethod | | By-post channel: form D1 from a Post Office, £43 by cheque or postal order | applicationChannel, paymentMethod | | "DVLA will send you a confirmation email once you've applied" | email | | "You'll be told when you sign in if you need to prove your identity... using photo ID like a passport" | identityVerificationMethod | | UK passport: "Write the 9-digit passport number on the application form" | identityVerificationMethod = uk_passport, ukPassportNumber | | UKVI share code as a digital identity-verification route | identityVerificationMethod = ukvi_share_code, ukviShareCode | | Countersignatory must hold a valid GB photocard licence, be UK resident, know the applicant personally, not be a relative or housemate | identityVerificationMethod = other_document_with_countersignatory, countersignatoryName, countersignatoryLicenceNumber |

What is NOT independently confirmed (out of scope)

• The full D1 form field list. Only the medical-declaration gate (medicalConditionDeclared) is modelled; the specific notifiable conditions, the Part A/Part B branching, and any DVLA medical questionnaire are out of scope pending a review pass against an official DVLA-published field list (not a third-party form-filler summary).
• Applicant biographic detail beyond name and date of birth — e.g. sex, place of birth, previous surname, National Insurance number, address — is not confirmed for this specific service and is not modelled, unlike the sibling renewal schema which had its applicant-detail fields drawn from a service the reviewer could partially read pre-login. title is included by analogy with that sibling and is flagged as not independently re-confirmed for the first-application service specifically (see its field sourceRef).
• Photo capture (upload vs. reuse of an existing passport photo) is not modelled. The identity-verification sources describe identity documents, not a photo-capture step, and no source read during this pass confirmed whether/how a photograph is collected for a first application. A future minor version should add this once the online service's pre-login screens (or an official D1 scan) can be read directly.
• Licence categories applied for (e.g. category B car, category A motorcycle) are not modelled; no source read during this pass stated whether the first-provisional application itself asks the applicant to select categories, or whether a provisional licence is issued with a fixed standard category set.
• The online service's authenticated screens. Unlike gb/dvla/driving-licence-renewal-photocard, whose before-you-start / before-you-continue pre-login screens were reachable at authoring time, the equivalent first-provisional start URL returned HTTP 404 when tried during this pass; no pre-login screen content could be read for this service.

Scope and jurisdiction notes

• Great Britain residents only. Like the sibling renewal schema, Northern Ireland has its own separate service; this document is GB-only (jurisdiction.level: national, matching the GB DVLA convention).
• First application only. Renewal of an existing licence is out of scope here — see the already-published gb/dvla/driving-licence-renewal-photocard.
• Fees are intentionally not encoded as amounts, consistent with every other gb/dvla/* and gb/hmpo/* reference schema. The £34/£43 figures quoted above are qualitative context recorded in this file and in field descriptions, not authoritative validation data.
• Not time-versioned. Applying GSP-0005 §2's coexistence test: this process does not encode a year-varying value, so this is a plain v1.0.0 document, not an edition-axis schema.
• Conditional requiredness (identityVerificationMethod-gated fields, applicationChannel-gated email) is expressed with requiredWhen (GSP-0013), not left to field-description prose, since this document targets spec v0.3.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer applies manual-source-review-v1 Procedure step 2 field-by-field against the live authenticated online flow and an officially-sourced D1 form scan specifically, resolves the open items above (most importantly the medical-declaration detail and any missing biographic/photo fields) by shipping a new schema version if discrepancies are found (immutability — VERSIONING §3), and records the outcome here.

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months). Re-check the source on or before that date and on any source.url change.