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Overseas driver licence use extended as Govt works to reduce wait times

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Publish Date
Wed, 9 Oct 2024, 8:18am
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Overseas driver licence use extended as Govt works to reduce wait times

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 9 Oct 2024, 8:18am

The Government promises it's pulling all the levers to bring down driver licence wait times. 

It's allowing people to drive on an overseas licence for 18 months in November, extending it from a year. 

The Transport Minister's admitted there's still more work to do after scrapping the unlimited free driver licence re-sit policy. 

Simeon Brown told Mike Hosking NZTA is speeding up the training process as well. 

He says the Transport Agency's recruited extra training officers. 

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