New Zealand Driver Licence Renewal

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-02

The document was derived from the official DL1 form listed below. It remains draft, not verified.

Sources examined

• Document (id, version): nz/nzta/drivers-licence-renewal / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
• Authority: NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi ("NZTA").
• Primary source: DL1, "Application for new, reissue or renewal of driver licence" (12/25 edition) — https://www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/resources/application-for-driver-licence-dl1/docs/dl1.pdf. nzta.govt.nz returns an Incapsula WAF challenge page to direct fetch tooling in this sandbox (the same class of block recorded for canada.ca in ca/cra/individual-income-tax-and-benefit-return-t1's VERIFICATION.md), so the form was retrieved from its most recent Wayback Machine capture instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20260525034142/https://www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/resources/application-for-driver-licence-dl1/docs/dl1.pdf (captured 2026-05-25, a current capture of what the source review confirmed is the same 12/25 edition NZTA currently publishes — this is not a stale Wayback fallback the way the CA T1 schema's 2022-edition source was).
• Secondary source (non-gating field descriptions only): "New Zealand driver licence classes: what you can drive" — https://www.nzta.govt.nz/driver-licences/getting-a-licence/licences-by-vehicle-type/what-you-can-drive — also WAF-blocked to direct fetch in this sandbox; summarized via automated fetch-and-summarize tooling rather than a direct extraction (a weaker method than the primary source's pdfjs-dist extraction below). Used only to write the non-gating, informational part of licenceClassAppliedFor's description; the schema does not assert vehicle-weight thresholds as its own claim, and the field's validation.enum (the numbers 1-6) is confirmed directly from the DL1 form itself, not from this secondary source.
• Field extraction method: DL1 is a static (non-fillable) PDF — unlike ca/on/registration/business-incorporation's dynamic XFA form, pdfjs-dist's getFieldObjects() returns null and there is no /AcroForm or /XFA marker in the raw PDF bytes. Field names, numbering, and checkbox option labels were extracted from the page's text layer with position (x/y) data preserved, then reconstructed into each numbered question's option set by reading left-to-right, top-to-bottom within each question's y-band. This is the same general prose/print-form extraction discipline as ca/on/mto/drivers-licence-renewal, but applied to a genuine downloadable government PDF form rather than a guidance web page.
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-02.
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer — initial authoring source review).

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) / documents[] entry | |---|---| | §1, "New Zealand driver licence number (if you know it)" | licenceNumber | | §2, "Surname" / "First name" / "Middle names" | surname, firstName, middleNames | | §3, "Are the names on this form different to any of the names on your ID?" / "Previous name" | namesDifferFromId, previousName | | §4, "Gender" | gender (see caveat below) | | §5, "Would you be willing to donate organs in the event of your death?" | organDonationWillingness | | §6, "Date of birth" | dateOfBirth | | §7, "Place of birth" — Town/city / Country | placeOfBirthTown, placeOfBirthCountry | | §8, "If you have one of these, this is all you need" (NZ photo driver licence or NZ passport) vs. "you'll need one primary ID and one supporting ID" | identityPathway, primaryIdentityDocument, supportingIdentityDocument | | §8, list of 9 primary ID types (Refugee travel document, NZ passport, Overseas passport, Firearms licence, Citizenship certificate, Emergency travel document, Full birth certificate issued from 1 Jan 1998, Certificate of identity (Passports Act 1992), Certificate of identity (Immigration Act 2009)) | primaryIdentityDocument.acceptedTypes | | §8, list of 10 supporting ID types (Kiwi Access/18+ card, Community services card, SuperGold card, Veteran SuperGold card, Student photo ID card, Employee photo ID card, Electoral roll record, Inland revenue number, Utility bill or bank statement, Overseas driver licence, Steps to freedom form) | supportingIdentityDocument.acceptedTypes | | §8, "If neither of your forms of ID has a photo: Identity referee document attached (DL26)" | neitherIdentityDocumentHasPhoto, identityRefereeDocumentDL26 | | §9, "Name change document" and its 7 accepted types | nameChangeDocument | | §10/§11, "Physical address" / "Mailing address (if different from above)" | physicalAddress, mailingAddress | | §12, "Address printed on licence" — No/Yes, Physical address or Mailing address | addressPrintedOnLicence, addressPrintedOnLicenceSource | | §13, "Mobile phone" / "Other phone" | mobilePhone, otherPhone | | §14, "Email address" | emailAddress | | §15, "What type of licence are you applying for?" — Class 1-6 grid, with Restricted offered only for Class 1 and Class 6 | licenceClassAppliedFor, licenceStageAppliedFor | | §16, "Do you have a medical condition or disability that could affect your ability to drive safely?" / "Has that condition or disability affected your ability to drive safely in the last 5 years?" | hasMedicalConditionAffectingDriving, medicalConditionAffectedDrivingLast5Years | | Page 3, "What to bring" — medical certificate required for class 2/3/4/5 or turning 75+ or an affecting condition in the last 5 years | turning75OrOlderAtRenewal, medicalCertificate (requiredWhen combines all three triggers with any) | | Page 2, "Declaration" (three declaration sentences, verbatim) | declarationAttestation |

What is NOT independently confirmed / out of scope

• gender's selectable options. The DL1 form's own gender question renders its answer options as graphical checkbox elements the pdfjs-dist text layer did not capture as readable text (unlike every Yes/No question on the form, which the extraction captured cleanly as "No"/"Yes" text items). Rather than guess a plausible enum (e.g. assuming a male/female/another-gender set from general knowledge of NZ government forms), this field is modelled as a free-text string with no enum — the same discipline ca/on/mto/drivers-licence-renewal applied to its licenceNumber format and ca/on/registration/business-incorporation applied to directorAddressForService.
• Fee amounts. DL1's own pages state only that fees vary by application type and licence class ("The fee will depend on the type of application you're making"); no fee schedule is transcribed and no documents[] payment entry is modelled, consistent with every other schema in this registry.
• Licence class vehicle-weight definitions. DL1 itself lists only class numbers 1-6, with no on-form definition of what each class covers. This schema's licenceClassAppliedFor.description briefly summarizes NZTA's separate "what you can drive" guidance page for context, sourced via weaker fetch-and-summarize tooling (see Sources above) rather than a direct extraction, and is explicitly not asserted as this schema's own authoritative claim — a consumer needing exact weight thresholds should follow the cited nzta.govt.nz page directly.
• The licenceStageAppliedFor / licenceClassAppliedFor pairing. The source form's own grid restricts "Restricted" to Class 1 and Class 6 only (Classes 2-5 offer only Learner/Full). The v0.3 field model has no mechanism to express a conditional enum restriction between two enum fields (crossFieldValidation, §8.3, supports compare/requireAbsent/ requirePresent, not a value-subset rule keyed on another field's value), so this constraint is documented in licenceStageAppliedFor.description as prose guidance rather than enforced structurally. Flagged as a potential future crossFieldValidation or richer-enum extension ([GSP-0003], labelled enum options, is the closest tracked proposal but does not cover this case either).
• The driver licensing agent network itself. DL1 is submitted in person to a driver licensing agent (a third-party network NZTA accredits), not online to NZTA directly. This schema models the form's fields only, not the agent-network channel, appointment booking, or in-person eyesight check the source pages describe.
• Test/lapse scenarios and the 80-years-and-over program. DL1 covers new, reissue, and renewal applications in one form; a licence lapsed long enough to require a vision/written/road test, and the separate biennial 80-years-and-over renewal considerations beyond the turning75OrOlderAtRenewal medical-certificate trigger, are out of scope for this version — consistent with how ca/on/mto/drivers-licence-renewal scoped out its own 80+ program and test-required paths via eligibility gates. This schema does not use GSP-0013 transitions/exitReason gates at the step level because DL1's own fields don't describe an online eligibility screen the way Ontario's and GB's driving-licence renewal services do; scope is instead bounded by the field list itself and this document's description.

Scope and jurisdiction notes

• Driver licensing in New Zealand is a single national authority (NZTA), unlike the provincial/state model in ca/on/mto/drivers-licence-renewal and au/nsw/service-nsw/driver-licence-renewal (still an open candidate). It pairs with us/ca/dmv/drivers-license-renewal, gb/dvla/driving-licence-renewal-photocard, ie/dttas/driving-licence-renewal, and ca/on/mto/drivers-licence-renewal to show the same process across five jurisdictions.
• This closes the NZ DMV catalog candidate identified in the GOV-474 cycle. Remaining open DMV candidates: AU (NSW), DE, SG.
• documents[] ([GSP-0014]) is used for every ID/evidence/attestation requirement rather than modelling the ID-type lists as enum fields — the same pattern ca/on/registration/business-incorporation and sg/acra/sole-proprietorship-registration used for their own identity/attestation requirements.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer confirms this record against a freshly retrieved live copy of DL1 once nzta.govt.nz is reachable from the review environment (or via an official NZTA-published copy through another channel), specifically re-checking: the gender question's actual selectable options (to decide whether a closed enum can replace the current free-text gender field), and the exact fee schedule if it is ever intended to be modelled. Ship a new schema version if discrepancies are found (VERSIONING.md §3, immutability).

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months).