The individuals impacted by this are being contacted by NZTA and will be advised to surrender their licences.<\/p>\n
NZTA said providing false information as part of a driver licence application is against the law and can be punished with a fine of up to $750.<\/p>\n
When converting to a New Zealand truck licence, applicants must have a valid overseas licence, meaning it is current or expired in the past 12 months, and it must not be suspended, disqualified or revoked in the country of issue.<\/p>\n
Applicants with truck licences from \u201cexempt\u201d countries, meaning that those countries require similar driving skills and have similar licensing systems to New Zealand\u2019s, have a slightly easier time converting their licence.<\/p>\n
For truck licences, applicants from these countries must fill out an application form, verify their identity, prove their eyesight meets required standards, provide a medical certificate (if required), present the overseas licence and take a theory test.<\/p>\n
An application fee must also be paid alongside having pictures and signatures taken and providing photocopies of all documents provided.<\/p>\n
The exempt countries are Australia, France, Luxembourg, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Greece, Norway, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Portugal, USA, Denmark, Italy, South Africa, Finland, Japan and Spain.<\/p>\n
Applicants from non-exempt countries must do the above steps and also take a practical test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The individuals impacted by this are being contacted by NZTA and will be advised to surrender their licences.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5003,36442,74,3041,41666,3088,43714,34893,19552,11424,29945,42,23931,37254,88457,43,16488,53545,40676,40,38,41,39,112,23857,49756],"class_list":["post-127449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-activity","tag-36442","tag-after","tag-agency","tag-audit","tag-commercial","tag-discovering","tag-documents","tag-driver","tag-finds","tag-fraudulent","tag-headlines","tag-kotahi","tag-licences","tag-licenses","tag-news","tag-nzta","tag-revoked","tag-revokes","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transport","tag-truck","tag-waka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}