Change your name or sex descriptor on your licence
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Update your name or sex descriptor with Transport and Main Roads.
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To change to your name or sex descriptor with Transport and Main Roads (TMR), you must visit a transport service centre in person.
Change your name
To update your name on your licence, visit a transport service centre and bring:
- evidence of your identity (your identity documents can show your old name)
- evidence of your name change (you must show an original, official document—for example a marriage certificate or your current licence).
If you cannot hand in your licence you will need to pay a replacement driver licence fee.
You do not need to fill out a change of details form when visiting a transport service centre to apply for a replacement driver licence.
You will need to complete the change of customer details form (F4214) if:
- you are getting a replacement licence at a police station or at most QGAP offices
- you are getting a replacement photo ID card or industry authority.
Your replacement licence with your updated name will be mailed out to you.
Change your sex descriptor
TMR is required to record a sex descriptor when issuing a licence. This may be male, female or another sex descriptor recorded with the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry.
When you apply for a TMR product, your sex descriptor will be recorded from your identity document. If it is not on that document, you will be asked what your sex descriptor is, and this will be recorded.
If you change your sex descriptor with the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry in Queensland and want to update your sex descriptor with TMR, bring your new certificate to a transport service centre.
Your sex descriptor:
- does not appear on your licence or any other TMR product
- is used for research to enhance TMR road safety initiatives.