New driving test booking rules take effect

Rules about who can book and manage car driving tests have now changed.
New driving test booking rules take effect

From today (Tuesday 12 May 2026), the rules about who can book and manage car driving tests have changed.

This email brings together links to all the recent guidance and updates we've published into one place.

Thank you for helping your pupils prepare for the introduction of these new rules.

New

News story

End of the road for unofficial driving test booking services

It's now against the law for third parties, including unofficial test booking and cancellation finder services, to make bookings for someone else.

It's also a breach of DVSA’s new terms and conditions for the booking service for third parties to change, swap or cancel a driving test for someone else.


Updated

Guidance

Changes to driving test booking rules in 2026

Find out more about how car driving test booking rules are changing. It includes guidance for your pupils on booking a test and making changes.

It also includes guidance about how you can help someone to book and manage their test online.


Guidance

Manage your availability to take your pupils to driving tests

As an ADI, you can set times you are available to take your pupils to car driving tests to stop your pupils from booking tests at other times. Your availability is also automatically blocked out when a pupil books a test using your reference number.

Find out how to register for the service and set your availability.


Recently published

Guidance

Swapping your driving test with another learner driver

This guide helps your pupils understand how they can swap their car driving test with another learner driver by phone.

It also reminds them to never give their driving licence number, theory test pass certificate number, address, phone number, email address or payment card details to another learner driver.


New

Guidance

Driving test booking: if your online access is restricted

If we detect that someone’s driving licence number is being used in a way that breaches our new terms and conditions, we can restrict their access to book and manage their driving test online.

This new guidance is about how your pupils will know if it’s happened to them, what their options are, and how they can ask for a review of the decision.


Recently published

Blog post

Webinar recap and Q&A

We published a blog post that recaps on our recent webinar and Q&A session about the new rules. It includes questions and answers about booking and managing a driving test, swapping tests, test refunds and more.

 

 
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