Provide verified E-contact Means in Licence and Permit Applications to the Transport Department

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• Please read the notes on the application form carefully and ensure the form is duly completed and signed;
• Ensure that your application is accompanied by all necessary supporting documents, for example, address proof and vehicle registration document (if applicable), etc;
• If you have not received the licence concerned 4 weeks after the submission of your application via post, drop boxes or through GovHK, please inform us at 2804 2600 for follow up action;
• Do not send cash by post. Crossed cheques/cashier orders for the correct amount of fees should be made payable to either "The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region" or "The Government of the HKSAR". Please write down your name, first four characters/digits of your identity document number/vehicle registration mark and daytime contact telephone number on the back of the cheques/cashier orders; and
• Underpaid mail items will be rejected.  For proper delivery of your mail items to the department, please ensure your mail items bear sufficient postage with return address. (Details).

• Make sure that you have settled all moving or parking offence penalties imposed on you or your vehicle;
• If you choose to settle outstanding court fines by cheque, your subsequent application for licensing services to the Transport Department in respect of driving licence, vehicle licence and transfer of vehicle ownership would only be processed 7 working days after the date of payment; and
• The Commissioner for Transport is not empowered to issue any driving licence or vehicle licence to you if there are any outstanding court orders directing the Commissioner for Transport to refuse to issue the said licence to you.

• If a change occurs in the name, address or identity document of a driving licence holder/registered owner previously provided by the driving licence holder/registered owner to the Commissioner for Transport, the driving licence holder/registered owner shall, within 72 hours of the change, notify the Commissioner for Transport in writing or by submitting the completed Transport Department Form (TD559) with the proof of change. Any person who without reasonable excuse contravenes such requirement commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $2,000. For cases of change of name or change of identity document, the driving licence holder/registered owner shall also deliver to the Commissioner for Transport the existing original driving licence (if applicable), original driving instructor's licence (if applicable), original vehicle registration document (if applicable), vehicle licence (if applicable) and Certification of Allocation of Personalized Registration Mark (if applicable) for amendment; and
• For any change of address notified under any Transport Department application form (except Application for a Certificate of Particulars of Vehicle (TD318)), all vehicle/driving licence records of the applicant under the same identity document held by this Department will also be changed.