Licence Classes
Class 1 Licence (Professional – Any Vehicle)
The minimum learning or licencing age is 18.
Permits an operator to drive:
- Any motor vehicle, or combination of vehicles, other than a motorcycle
- Class 6 type vehicles, for learning only
Class 2 Licence (Professional – Bus)
The minimum learning or licencing age is 18.
Permits an operator to drive:
- Any motor vehicle, or combination of vehicles, that the holder of a Class 3, 4 and 5 operator's licence may
operate
- Any bus
- Class 1 and 6 type vehicles, for learner only
Class 3 Licence (3-axle plus)
The minimum learning or licencing age is 18.
Permits an operator to drive:
- Any motor vehicle, or combination of vehicles that the holder of a Class
5 operator's licence may operate
- A single motor vehicle with three or more axles
- A motor vehicle with three or more axles towing a trailer with one or more axles,
if the trailer is not equipped with airbrakes
- Class 2 and 4 type vehicles without passengers
- All motor vehicles included under Class 1, 2 and
6, for learning only
No holder of a Class 3 operator's licence shall operate a motor
vehicle:
- That has a seating capacity of more than 15, while that vehicle is transporting
any person in addition to the operator
- To transport passengers for hire
Class 4 Licence (Professional – Taxi, Ambulance)
The minimum learning or licencing age is 18.
Permits an operator to drive:
- A taxi, ambulance or bus (including school or kindergarten buses) where seating
capacity is not over 24, excluding the operator
- All motor vehicles included under Class 5
- All motor vehicles included under Class 1, 2,
3 and 6, for learning only
Class 5 Licence (2-axle - Cars, Light Trucks, Motorhomes or Mopeds)
The minimum learning age is 14.
The minimum licencing age is 16.
Permits an operator to drive:
- A two axle single motor vehicle, excluding a motorcycle
- A two axle motor vehicle towing a trailer with one or more axles, if the trailer
is not equipped with airbrakes
- A recreational vehicle or any combination of a recreational vehicle and a trailer,
if the trailer has not more than two axles and is not equipped with airbrakes
- A moped
- Class 1, 2, 3, 4
and 6 type vehicles, for learning only
No holder of a Class 5 operator's licence shall operate a motor
vehicle:
- That has a seating capacity of more than 15, while that vehicle is transporting
any person in addition to the operator
- To transport for hire
Class 6 Licence (Motorcycle & Moped)
The minimum learning or licencing age is 16.
Permits an operator to drive:
- A motorcycle or a moped
- All motor vehicles under Class 5, for learning only
Class 7 Licence (Learners - 2-axel & Motorcycle & Moped)
The minimum learning or licencing age is 14.
Permits an operator to drive:
- A moped
- A motor vehicle referred to in the Class 5 category, as a learner
only
- A motorcycle, as a learner only, if the operator is at least 16 years of age