Lost, Expired or Reprinting a Learner's Licence

The short version

Lost, damaged or destroyed

Apply for a duplicateRegulation 109

Where

Any driving licence testing centre — not necessarily the one that issued it

Form

LL1, in person

If you no longer have the original

A declaration on form DCT stating it is lost or destroyed

Does a duplicate reset the 24 months?

No — it carries the same expiry as the original

Expired learner's licence

No renewal exists — apply again and retake the theory test

Fee

The appropriate fee determined by your province's MEC

If it's lost, damaged or destroyed: a duplicate, not a reprint

Regulation 109(1) sets out the whole process, and it is a document application, not a card replacement. You apply in person, on form LL1, at any driving licence testing centre — it does not have to be the one that issued the original.

You bring the original licence, if you still have it in any form. If it is genuinely lost or destroyed, regulation 109(3)(a) lets you replace that requirement with a declaration to that effect on form DCT. Alongside that you need two photographs meeting the same specification as your first application, acceptable identification, and the fee for a duplicate learner's licence, set by the MEC of your province.

That's the complete list. There is no police affidavit or case number required anywhere in regulation 109, and no separate temporary-permit step.

Why this is not the same process as a lost driving licence card

It's worth being precise here, because the two get described interchangeably online and the regulations do not treat them the same way. Regulation 100 sets up a whole separate mechanism for a stolen, lost, destroyed or defaced driving licence CARD — a temporary authorisation on form TDL, or an affidavit made at a testing centre or police station carrying a case number, valid for a few days or months while a new card is produced.

None of that applies to a learner's licence, which is not a plastic card. Regulation 109(1) and (3) is a complete, self-contained process for it: application, original or declaration, photographs, identification, fee. If a site tells you to open a case at the police station for a lost learner's licence, that instruction belongs to the driving licence card, not to this document.

A duplicate is not a new 24 months

This is easy to assume and worth checking, because it isn't stated as plainly as you'd expect. Regulation 101(1) fixes the validity of a learner's licence to the date of the examination and test you passed — not to the date any particular document was issued.

Regulation 109 gives you a duplicate of that same licence. Nothing in it moves the expiry date forward. So if your original would have expired in three months, a duplicate issued this week still expires in three months — it replaces the paper, not the clock.

If it's expired: there is no renewal

We searched the consolidated National Road Traffic Regulations for a renewal provision for an expired learner's licence, the same way our page on failed attempts searched for a waiting period. There isn't one. Regulation 109 talks about a duplicate of an existing, still-valid licence — it does not extend to reviving one whose 24 months have already run out.

So an expired learner's licence is not a reprint. It is a fresh application under regulation 103(1): a new form LL1, the same documents as a first-time applicant, and — because regulation 104(1) requires every applicant to be examined and tested — the theory test again. Nothing about your previous pass carries over once the licence itself has lapsed.

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